Columbus, OH Endurance Sports Expo - free!

thanks for post!

Thanks for the info Alice. Can you give us a little run down on what all goes on at this expo? Is it worth a 90 min drive?

Thanks,

Keith

How about a 2:15 drive? 

I went to it last year. A lot of the race companies have a table at it. There were samples of sports drink, clearance race shirts, race schedules, bike stores with bikes, that kind of thing.

I would say it is not worth a long drive, except that I'm not aware of very many endurance sports expos in general - even nationally. This one is not any big deal - I mean, there aren't any clinics or anything. It seems like they had a stage last year, and someone did give a talk about something. It's in a pretty nice building. It took up as much space as, say, a hotel ballroom or something. It was fun talking triathlon with people in the dead of winter. I went alone last year and took my kids, so I spent most of my time making sure they weren't touching $5,000 bikes or anything. And most of the people there were kid-less, so there was not much love for my kids, honestly. But my kids were excited to be downtown at night with all the lights, so they didn't care that much that there was nothing for them to do.

I remember that HFP had a beanbag game, and if you made a certain score, you got a free tub of HEED or something. There isn't really any representation from outside the region. If you look at the sponsors at the bottom, it's mostly Central Ohio peeps.

It is smaller in scale than a marathon expo.

More tri-specific.

Ask me any other questions you have!

Thanks for the update Alice. I think I will pass on this drive.

I will probably swing by and check it out, thanks for the information.

Joe 

Anyone going tonight?

I plan on walking through after my workout, need to pick up a new swimsuit and am hoping I can find one here and save an extra trip.

Thanks for posting Alice - I made it down and got plenty of free giveaways.

Also HFP Racing was there and got alot of their dates for 2011 races since I'm new to this.  WOO HOO!

drat!  I had to babysit my best friend's children tonight.  Please tell me it was horrible.  I don't want to think I missed anything good.

The HFP booth gave me a whole canister of HEED mix! Sweet!
(Sorry Robin! LOL)

Hope y'all had a good time! 

I made it down there too.  Had a good time talking to everyone and left with a bag loaded with free goodies!  The funny thing was, my daughter insisted on wearing her purple tutu because it matched her Hello Kitty shirt.  So, you may have noticed me walking around the exhibits with my 4 year old in her purple tutu.  

Great crowd and lots of vendors/race promoters. Heard the numbers were up quite a bit from last year. Probably still not worth a long drive, but it's getting there.