YMCA Sprint Triathlon - Wakefield, Lake Quannapowitt

Link to the registration form if you prefer to register on the morning of race day

That's pretty cheap. How bad can it be really? I might do this one.

BTW, how is that lake for swimming? I didn't know people swam in it.

The lake has been cleared from the board of health to swim in. The certificate from the health board has been around....people are braving the temps and swimming in it now.

It is the first year of this triathlon. It'll be great for $30! You guys should show up! The Planning Committee is hoping that it'll get really huge in the years to come. This year the Planning Committee isn't expecting more than 150 racers since they are slow on getting out the advertising. As of now, they aren't sure about how much "real food" we'll have afterwards beyond the standard fruit and bagels. The Italian Ice guy and hot dog vendor there are being looked at for providing free food for the racers (spectators have to pay).

You don't even need to look around to see that with a marked course, blocked-off  parking around the side of the lake where you may get "door prized", tech shirts, water/gatorade stops, guarded transition area for athletes only that this is a great value. A bounce house for the kids will be there too. They'll also have a raffle and the YMCA is really big on Red Sox tickets (and Celtics & Bruins when they were still playing). Parking will be easy and close. Oh and one KICK BAGPIPE PLAYER is scheduled to be there too!

There are two multiple Ironman finishers now helping plan the event, so if anyone knows what makes an event great for athletes, they are there to put their 2 cents in.

But it's a $30 event! Grassroots fun and a great place to spend time hanging out with friends afterwards......it's not short-course Timberman, but it's not $85 for a sub 2 hour-long race either.

Hope to see KevinG and whoever else was planning on coming out!

See the above DK. It's as clean as it'll get!

Awesome Kathy! See you guys there!

L U R K I N G

hmmm ....I'm intriqued

As of today they said they are going to cap it at 120 people. We're expecting it to sell out before raceday.

So the two Joannes ~ sign up soon if you want to do it! Especially isis - I know the potential "draw" towards Wakefield!

Drove to the Y after work yesterday, I am in.  The lady at the counter said the total is up to over 80 so far, so I expect it to sell out by race day. This is a great bargan, and I love running the lake. This is my main training spot, especialy in the winter! This will be too cool!!

Joe, there's so much grass/real estate there too if you wanted to pitch your tent thingy and hang out afterwards! Is the family coming?

This will probably be the first time you've ever hauled a$$ around the lake on your bike without having to worry about people opening their doors on you on the one side of the lake, or getting cut off by people going to the parking lot by the baseball fields, cemetary, or the hotel since there will be traffic control as well as police details. I'm actually jealous

Signs should be up a few days around the lake before the race alerting that there will be a race in progress, so the normal offenders who "are entitled" to walk 2-3 abreast on the sidewalk with their double strollers and dog will have a heads up. But that definitely shouldn't be too much of an issue since it's early anyways.

Bike on the road, run on the sidewalk, opposite directions.

If we can just get that sausage guy who keeps his cart caddy-cornered from the beach to get on board for some free chow for athletes that would be AWESOME.......

Burbank is the Reading Y.