Official 2014 Weihai, China Long Course Championships Thread

This is a great idea.  Having a thread for those who are looking at going and helping everyone keep up with the information.  Thanks for posting the Weihai Triathlon website and also for creating the Facebook group.  

It will just be me traveling for this race.  My wife will be staying home with our daughters.  I wish I could afford for all of us to go but I am working on just being able to afford myself to go. 

My thoughts for fundraising have been mainly going to my work.  I also have a few friends who own their own business and restaurants.  I have started talking to them about sponsor ships or just making a donation to the cause.  Another idea I had was; I have all the equipment for doing professional detailing on cars.  I keep up with mine and have done a few of immediate family members.  I was going to detail cars on the weekends for a small fee plus any additional donation the person would like to give.  Anyone have any others?

Peter

P.S.   Everything I have read says it will be a NON-DRAFT LEGAL race...is that what everyone else is finding.

Edited by TriGuy05 2014-01-21 12:37 PM

Glad to see this thread! I joined the Facebook group too.

I am 95% sure we are going, but I really want to see more info from USAT and ITU before we buy plane tickets or commit to anything else...

Fund raising ideas?
No idea… need to figure this out…

Family members attending?
My husband will be with me. No kids yet, so we're hoping we can both go.

Vacation plans while you're there?
We're leaning towards trying to stay for 2 weeks - arriving the Sunday before the race and then staying for a week after. We're thinking Beijing for 3ish days, then Weihai for the race and stuff (once I see the schedule we'll know for sure), then travel around a few other places for the week after (Sept 27 is our anniversary).

I haven't seen anything about the drafting rules and not really worried about it. Small detail when trying to manage a trip half way across the world.

As for fund raising ideas I've got a few that I'd be happy to share and have worked for me in the past when doing fundraising for TNT events.
1. Donations for Silent auction. One evening I raised a little over $3,000 doing this. $10 cover to get in and had about 40 items to auction off. Get friends and family to pump it up on facebook, twitter, through your community and it works great. Pick a bar/restaurant where general public can wander in and participate. We had a number of random people just want to be part of it that were there drinking. They paid the $10 and the profit from their drinks we got to keep as well.

2. Your side job. Whatever money you earn from that put away. I do this with my computer business.

3. Know someone that can cook? I have some friends with a commercial kitchen in their (very large) house and we plan on doing a dinner there. Get the food donated from a local grocery store and 'sell' tickets to it for $25/head. You'd be surprised how many people will buy a ticket for a fully catered meal that night. Make it an event...have a few things to give away...nothing crazy but a couple bottles of wine, etc.


Same. Figure 2 weeks or so...how many times do you get the chance to hit up China!!