Toronto Triathlon festival Bike Course

Well a good many actually do have experience riding it on a bicycle  due the 'Ride for Heart' every year. I once did the 25k ride once and the DVP section is mostly continuous gradual uphill on the way north with the opposite for the way back ... though, I am not particularly familiar with this race course in terms of where you are getting on and off the highway so i am not all that helpful.

It should be really cool!

Well I have kind of answered my own question! I did some research and have found this elevation profile:

http://77track7.blogspot.ca/2007/06/cycling-ride-for-heart-2007-elevation.html

Its not exact but its what juniperjen was talking about. It will at least give me and hopefully some others an idea about what they will be facing! A little hilly plus my first 1.5km swim... can't wait for the punishment 

I also found this on mapmyride:

http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/36505274

It's not able to pick up elevation information for me and it's only a bit of the course, not the entire thing.

But it's a little bit more information.

You won't be doing the Gardiner section, correct?  Because there is a downhill going between the connection between the DVP and Gardiner.  But remember it's a highway, a very very busy one so although it does climb it's not all that steep in any one section - it does roll a bit but you are pretty well climbing all the way north and you come back down to the lake.

Okay, nevermind, I actually went and looked at the route maps ... and you do actually pretty well do the Ride for Heart Route.  for some reason I thought it was swimming out of Cherry Beach but I was wrong. 

You can pretty well use that link except you don't go all the way to York Mills.  It does hold that it is still the highway and going north on the DVP is generally climbing and you then get the benefit coming back - it is a highway, the grades are not generally really bad and very do-able. The only place I can think of is the Gardiner where it is elevated and there is a pretty steep downhill turn onto the DVP and it can be windy ...

I mapped the entire triathlon course here: http://runkeeper.com/race/toronto-triathlon-festival-19423/28001

I did the 50K Ride for Heart this year and the course it's almost identical, just a few km shorter, but the entry/exit will be the same at Jamieson. The climb on the DVP is really not that scary, I was expecting it to be a lot harder, but it surprised me in a good way.

I liked the swim course also....although I would have preferred a little time to warm up first.  During the race briefing they said we would get 5 minutes or so to warm up in the water but on race morning they wouldn't let us in and started as soon as everyone was in the water.

The bike course was great.  But the labeling on the run course was a little ridiculous and I would say the signage and communication all in all was pretty poor.  I think that and the elimination of the mandatory briefing the day before are areas they could improve on greatly for next year.

First year kinks aside it was a great course and race.

Perhaps for the Olympic the swim course was different (hopefully and likely) but on the sprint there was a 90 degree turn roughly 50 m into the course which everyone reached simultaneously, causing an unnecessary bottleneck that wasn't a particularly positive way to start the day (plenty of contact in my wave).

Not sure why spectators were allowed in the corral area of the swim start, that was crowded enough as it was, and the lack of the 5 minute warmup were were promised was a drawback.

I believe the Saturday briefing is a requirement of Triathlon Canada and/or some other governing body and is not the fault of TTF. Something like that should be available to watch online, there wasn't much info available for the amount of trouble it took out of towners to attend, but luckily the tiny expo helped make it worthwhile with at least some of the stuff on sale.

I enjoyed the day and hope the event will last beyond the Pan Am games, but am doubtful.