Swim:        snake style swim in a 25 yard pool  

The race begins in the indoor pool

There will be 10 lanes set up in the 25 yard pool, a total of 250 yards.  You will sit and slide into the pool and use steps to exit the pool.  Swimmers will begin one at a time at 5-second intervals.  Each will swim down the first lane, go under the lane line, swim back in the next lane, go under the next lane line, swim down the next lane, etc.  This is called a snake swim...and you should practice going under the lane lines at your own pool before the triathlon.

Our format for the swim includes:

• swimming in each lane goes only one direction

• passing is allowed

• you MUST swim to the wall, touch it, go under the laneline, and push off from wall in next lane

• flip turns will not be permitted. Use of flip turns will be cause for disqualification from the race.

• NO diving or jumping into the pool (you'll be seated and then slide in from the side)

• don't start until we signal YOU that it's your turn to start

 

Bike: route map                    4 miles on low traffic roads, basically flat    

REMEMBER:  A BIKE HELMET IS REQUIRED!!!
The helmet MUST be buckled before you begin to ride and not be unbuckled until you dismount the bike.  Failure to follow this rule results in an automatic DQ (USA Triathlon rule).               

At the start, REMEMBER: DON'T GET ON YOUR BIKE UNTIL YOU CROSS THE MOUNT LINE!

At the end of the bike ride,  GET OFF YOUR BIKE BEFORE YOU CROSS THE DISMOUNT LINE!

REMEMBER:  always ride on the far right-hand side of the street; pass only on the left

Start:  Freedom Center parking lot

• Exit parking lot via George Mason Circle

• Stay on George Mason Circle to the u-turn at the turnaround cone

• Right onto King Lane

• Right on Freedom Center Blvd.

• Right on University Blvd.

• Continue to turn-around

• Right on Innovation to turn-around (cul de sac)

• Right on University Blvd.

• Continue on University Blvd. to 2nd turn-around

• Right on Freedom Center Blvd

• Continue to turn-around

• Right onto Edwin King Lane

• Right onto George Mason Circle into parking lot

Run: route map                    1.5 miles primarily on road and sidewalk, with a short
                                                        distance on grass 

Start:  Freedom Center parking lot

• Exit transition area on side nearest building, turning right as you exit the transition area

• go to the end of the building and turn left

• again go the end of the building and turn left onto the service road that goes behind the building.

• at the end of the service road, use the mulched path to continue circling the building until you reach the sidewalk beside George Mason Circle

• continue to right turn on the sidewalk just before the first building

• Follow the signs and the sidewalk  as it goes along behind the university buildings and leads you around the last building

• turn right on the sidewalk along George Mason Circle

• continue into parking lot (of Hylton Performing Arts Center), turn right and run along the perimeter of the parking lot (in a counter-clockwise direction)

• when you have completed the rectangular perimeter of the parking lot, you'll be back on George Mason Circle

• Continue ON SIDEWALK all the way back toward the Freedom Center

• continue to the finish line in the road (George Mason Circle) between the transition area (on your right) and the picnic tent (on your left)

             

transition area:   4 bikes to a rack, unassigned  (first come first serve)          

                                              instructions on use of Tri It Now bike racks