HIM in Lake Norman?

I live in Davidson and I can say you have named the closest half iron distance events already.  White Lake would probably be the shortest drive at a couple of hours.  I haven't raced that venue, but I hear glowing reports about the courses for the sprint and the half, especially about the lake.  The bike and run courses are pretty flat too.  If you want a branded Ironman race, you will need to go to Augusta for that.  Augusta will be about a three hour drive, though.

You can also check out the fsseries website to see what they are offering although I haven't ever done a race run by this group.  I have heard they are well run though.  I don't know if they have any half iron distance events, but they do have some Olympic distance tris and duathlons.
http://www.fsseries.com/index.php?action=page&page_id=1

When I first saw your post, I got excited because I thought a half iron distance event was being planned or considered!  It got me to thinking, it would be pretty easy since we have the water for it and I ride the roads that would be available for the ride every weekend.  They are heavily travelled by cyclists.  The only hangup there MIGHT be is laying out a half marathon.  I think the local Y would be a good venue and they already host the most popular sprint event around here.

FWIW,
Greg

Thanks for the info Greg.  I wasn't into tris when I lived there, but I used to run tons of 5ks, 8ks, etc.  I ran a lot of races at the Cornelius YMCA (the Jingle Bell 5k used to be held there, always a cold one).  I am surprised that I couldn't find anything for the area, I thought with the cycling that goes on there, the abundance of running races and easy access to such a large warm lake it would be one of the ideal places to host tris.  There has to be enough people to draw on from Charlotte to justify a race, Charlotte is bigger than Denver and we have tons of tris... and we don't even have lakes, just small reservoirs.

I never even considered that a race outside of the state would be closer   I guess that's what happens when you're surrounded by states that don't have much in them.... Kansas, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico

I'll looking into the Augusta one as the Duke as a backup, the date might be the deciding factor since I have to give my friend enough time to train and don't want to stack a half too close to my full.

tzmitch: Mooresville '99