Human Race, the UK’s largest organiser of mass participation sports events, has announced its Triathlon event calendar for the 2013 season. With many familiar and popular events returning, there are also some new events including the Wiggle Tri Challenge on 26 May.
The early season schedule sees the return of some old favourites including the Eton Super Sprints on 18-19 May and the Dorney Super Sprints a week later on 25 May. The flat conditions, both in the lake and underfoot, and Super Sprint distances, make these events ideal for first time triathletes as well as a perfect season opening tester for the more experience triathlete.
Bolstering the close working relationship between Human Race and online multisport retailer Wiggle, the new Wiggle Tri Challenge event on 26 May will offer a wider variety of distances including Sprint, 3Quarter and Olympic as well as relay options in both of the longer distances.
Competitors entered in to some of the bigger mid-season triathlons such as the Toshiba Windsor Triathlon have also been signing up to utilise the May offering as part of their training and numbers are exceeding the levels of last year. The Toshiba Windsor Triathlon on 16 June is once again sold-out with over 2500 competitors and will be covered by Channel 4.
Also returning is the unique Shock Absorber Women Only Triathlon on 14 July. The event, which welcomed over 1400 participants in 2012, forms part of the wider Human Race Women Only Series that includes a run, swim and the Women Only cycling series, Cycletta.
With Human Race noticing demand increasing from beginner and first time triathletes, particularly since the Olympics, shorter distance and novice waves have been included within most of the Human Race events in 2013 to ensure participants of all abilities are catered for.
Human Race will once again be organising a host of cooperate triathlons including the Jones Lang Lasalle Property Triathlon (May), The Marketing Industry Triathlon (July) and the HSBC Triathlon, Duathlon and Scootathlon (Sept). Human Race has also once again been appointed to deliver the Jenson Button Trust Triathlon in July, which launched with great success in 2012.
Human Race’s commitment to driving Youth, Junior and Children’s events continues with the return of the SuperTri on 7 July for ages 8-19 alongside delivering 12 Scootathlon events throughout the year, in which children aged 4-8 Scoot, Bike and Run in triathlon-style taster events.
Also highlighting the credentials of Human Race’s event delivery, the company has been selected by British Triathlon to host the British Triathlon Youth and Junior Super Series Triathlon on 26 May.
2013 will also see the company deliver their first triathlon event in the Caribbean, the St Lucia Triathlon. The event, which is supported by British Olympic legend Daley Thompson, is being billed as an end of season triathlon party. There are three distances to choose from, The Dagger, The Pistol and The Cutlass and with sea temperatures expected to be around 27ºC participants are being told to leave their wetsuits at home!
Human Race 2013 Triathlon Calendar
- Eton Supersprint Saturday – 18 May 2013
- The Jones Lang Lasalle Property Triathlon – 17 May 2013
- Eton Supersprint Sunday – 19 May 2013
- Triathlon Training Day – 19 May 2013
- Dorney Supersprint – 25 May 2013
- Shock Absorber WomenOnly Triathlon Training Day – 26 May 2013
- Wiggle Tri Challenge – 26 May 2013
- British Triathlon Youth & Junior Super Series Tri – 26 May 2013
- Toshiba Windsor Triathlon – 16 June 2013
- Maa Marketing Industry Triathlon – 5 July 2013
- Steelman Triathlon – 6 July 2013
- Supertri Children’s, Youth & Junior Triathlon – 7 July 2013
- Lidl Bananaman Triathlon – 13 July 2013
- Shock Absorber WomenOnly Triathlon – 14 July 2013
- Jenson Button Trust Triathlon – 14 July 2013
- Diamond Tri – 8 September 2013
- Hsbc Triathlon – 15 September 2013
- St. Lucia Triathlon – 22-23 November 2013
The full Human Race 2013 triathlon calendar can also be viewed online.
Human Race is the UK’s largest and most diverse mass participation events company; owning and delivering over 50 events in triathlon, cycling, running, duathlon and open water swimming for over 70,000 participants of all abilities and ages each year. The highly prestigious portfolio of events includes 11 triathlons, nine cycling events, 10 running events, 7 open water swims, 6 kid’s events.
These events bring together an active community of people taking part in sporting events for reasons ranging from fitness, competition, charity, health, fun or to simply finish. The participants vary from nervous first timers aged from 4 to 80 through to World Champions. Collectively, the events raise millions of pounds for hundreds of charities.
