The BVI Triathlon Federation has published its 2012 calendar.
The first event of the BVI triathlon season, the TSC Corporate Challenge, is set to take place on Saturday, February 11.
Following its introduction last year, the Corporate Cup returns – teams for the Corporate Cup be be comprised solely of employees. There will also be an Open Team category as well as Men’s and Women’s individual.
This fun fundraiser for the Tortola Sports Club will be a 750m swim, 20k bike ride and 5k run. The swim starts at the beach of Baughers Bay at 7 am. Registration will take place at the Tortola Sports Club at 6pm on Friday, February 10.
The four entry categories:
1. Men’s individual – entry US
2. Female individual – entry US
3. Open Team (ringers allowed) – entry US per team member with teams consisting of 2 or 3 individuals)
4. Corporate Team for Corporate Cup (no ringers – employees only, must be a three person team) – entry US0 per team.
Sixteen teams competed in the 2011 TSC Corporate Challenge – six in the inaugural Corporate Cup category and ten in the Open Teams category. Deloitte #1 took the Corporate Cup while Horizon Yacht Charters bested the other Open Teams. In the individual categories, Chris Ghiorse won Men’s and Kay Reddy the Women’s. The 2011 event, that took place Saturday, February 12th, saw the best turnout to date.
The swim took place off Baugher’s Bay beach with two laps including a quick sprint ashore to round a mark before heading back into the sea for a second lap. The cyclists then headed West to a turning mark about 500m beyond Ocean Reef Villas and then back to the Tortola Sports Club (TSC) where runners completed the sprint triathlon with a 5k run that took them East to Port Purcell roundabout and then into the ‘banking district’ of Road Town and a finish back at the TSC.
The course for 2012 will remain the same.
The 2012 calendar of events:
February 11 – TSC Corporate Challenge
March 10 – BVI X-Tri
April 28 – National Sprint Championships
October 21 – Anegada X-Treasure Tri
November 10 – BVI Steelman
December 8 – Santathon
(Source http://bvinews.com/bvi/tsc-corporate-challenge-opens-2012-bvi-triathlon-season/)
