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May 21, 2023

305 Triathlon Final Instructions

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5-21-2023 Important Notes

Hi Athletes,

Thank you for registering for the Mack Cycle 305 Triathlon & State Championship on Key Biscayne. You will find Crandon Park to be an absolutely beautiful venue for our event! There are a few things I’d like to share with you in advance of the event:

Packet Pickup is Wednesday - Friday from 12pm to 6pm at Mack Cycle in Miami and on Saturday from 10am to 4pm. More info below.
You MUST pay for parking or you will get a ticket. Go to paybyphone.com and enter location 46252 upon arrival to pay for parking.
Olympic Distance Cutoffs - In order to complete the Olympic distance you need to be able to complete the swim in under 42 minutes (45 minutes for a mile), bike 15 mph average including the bridge, and run 13 minutes per mile. If you aren’t sure if you can do this, please switch to the sprint distance as we have hard cutoffs to open the roadway back up.
Kids Splash & Dash - Check-in is Saturday at Mack Cycle or race morning between 7:00 and 7:30. This is an untimed event just for fun. All kids get medals for finishing and get race number tattoos and a USAT draw string backpack at check-in. Click here for the 7-10 year old course (8:00 start) and click here for the 11-15 year old course (8:15 start).
Information on the Club Championship and current participation standings can be found at: https://triregistration.com/clubs.php USAT has provided a banner to award to the top club overall and the top club in participation. Tri2One appears to have an insurmountable lead in participation. We'll see who wins in performance. The top 10 racers in each club score performance points.
USAT has NEW RULES in regards to drafting distance and penalty enforcement. Click here for more information.
Parking Entrance - The traffic counter flow to remove cars from our side of the Causeway will start at the Crandon north entrance, THUS you will need to enter the park at the 2nd Crandon entrance (blue line). Here’s a link to the directions: https://goo.gl/maps/Ya8ms263kr7vTKnaA You will turn left as soon as you enter the park to go to lot #2 on the north side of the park (see map).

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We will have an “EVENT PARKING” sign where you turn in and inside the park directing you left to the correct parking lot.
THANK YOU Mack Cycle! Please give a thank you to Mary Jane, Chris, and their team at Mack Cycle for their support of this event. Without their support, this event would not be possible.
No Dogs - Sorry, Crandon Park does not allow dogs, so please leave Fido at home.

Packet Pickup & Race Clinic

The Mack Cycle 305 Triathlon & State Championship is THIS SUNDAY! Thanks for registering! This is to remind you of important information that you need to know before the event.

PACKET PICKUP

Wed May 17, 2023 - 12pm - 6pm
Thurs May 18th, 2023 - 12pm - 6pm
Fri May 19, 2023 - 12pm - 6pm
Sat May 20, 2023 - 10am - 4pm

Mack Cycle – Miami

5995 Sunset Dr.
Miami, FL 33143
(305) 661-8363

Limited packet pickup will also be available race morning at the event site from 5:30-6:15am.

Bike check-in is race morning from 5:30am-6:15am.

PRE-RACE CLINIC

May 20th, 2023 at 1:00pm with Coach Marcelo Holcberg at Mack Cycle - Miami.

Start Times

Racers in each group will begin starting one person at a time at the specified start time. Do not line up until your group is called. Starting will be done approximately every 2-3 seconds. You will announce your race number to the starter (also doing manual backup timing) then run across the start timing mat once the starter tells you to ‘GO’.

Other Important Items to Remember

VENUE LAYOUT

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BIKE COURSE

Bikes will turn left to enter the park at the north entrance (red line) and exit the park at the northernmost exit (green line) (see map). Here’s the link to the course: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34754584 The Olympic distance will do this three times and the sprint distance once.

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SWIM COURSE

The swim is the safest ocean swim you could possibly do. The reason for this is that most of the areas at Crandon are very shallow. We will swim in a relatively narrow channel that is deeper than the surrounding water (see Google Earth image below - the dark narrow area is deeper than the surrounding area).

If you swim either away from or towards the shoreline you will encounter shallower waters if you’d like to take a break. This is why we don’t have a different shaped course as this is the ONLY area deep enough for swimming. Olympic distance participants (1500 meters) will swim down to the last buoy, then return to the first buoy, then back down again. Sprint distance participants (500 meters) will swim from the first buoy to the last buoy. Keep all buoys on your right. Click here for sprint map. Click here for Olympic map.

SWIM PRACTICE

Please exit the water before the first wave starts at 6:45 a.m.

RUN COURSE

The run course is a very scenic loop through Crandon Park. It is 3.1 miles long and Olympic Distance racers will do 2 loops (6.2mi), while Sprint racers will do 1 loop (3.1).

See the map at https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34754357. There will be a water station before mile 1 at the circle and again before mile 2 at the circle.

LAPS

You will encounter the following very large sign on both the bike and run courses. If you are in the SPRINT distance, follow the FINISH ARROW!

If you are in the OLYMPIC distance, follow the LAP ARROW and do a 2nd lap (and 3rd lap on the bike only), then follow the FINISH ARROW to complete the bike or run. IT IS VITAL THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS! Volunteers have no way to know which lap you are on, so YOU AND ONLY YOU must be responsible to know if you need to complete another lap or not. If you mess up and come in early, just go back out and do another lap. We'll sort out the times and delete the extra chip times in the timing system.

DUATHLON

Duathlon (run #1) - All duathletes will start at 7:00am just outside of the transition area. The first run will be ¾ of a mile and go down to the track, around the track, and back to transition.

See the map at https://ridewithgps.com/routes/34754477.

RESTROOMS

There is a permanent restroom facility right between the transition/finish area and the beach as indicated on the map above. It has about a dozen stalls for each gender. There is also an additional restroom facility on the way to the swim start (as indicated on the swim map) and several restrooms along the run course (one right next to the water station at the circle).

CUTOFF TIMES

● The swim course must be completed by 7:50 a.m. (20 minutes after last sprint starter)
● Olympic Distance athletes must start the 3rd lap of the bike course by 8:47 am or you will be directed into transition where you can finish the race but be disqualified for not completing the entire race.
● All athletes must complete the bike course by 9:20 am.
● Olympic Distance athletes must start the 2nd run lap by 10:05 am.

AWARDS SCHEDULE

9:10 - Aquabike awards
9:20 - Sprint Duathlon Awards
9:40 - Sprint Triathlon Awards
10:15 - Olympic Triathlon Awards

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Thank You To The Following:

Many thanks to Mack Cycle for their partnership and support. Make sure to check out their unbeatable inventory and awesome customer service!

Also in attendance this weekend:

Brewed On Wheels serving up your favorite coffees, pastries and drinks.
Onsite and brewing by 5:30 am