2008 Turtleman Triathlon Event Schedule
Thursday, August 7, 2008
4 PM to 6 PM:
Race Packet Pick-up,
Gear West Bike & Triathlon Store, Long Lake, MN
Friday, August 8, 2008
4 PM to 8 PM
Expo & Race Packet Pick-up
Shoreview Community Center
4:30 PM
Pre-Race Meeting
Shoreview Community Center
6:30 PM
Pre-Race Meeting
Shoreview Community Center
Saturday, August 9, 2008
6:00 AM
Body Marking & Transition Area Opens
Turtleman Lake Park, Shoreview, MN
7:30 AM
Body Marking & Transition Closes
Out of Town Packet Pick-up Closes
7:40 AM
Open/Elite Wave Athlete Meeting
Transition Area– South End
7:45 AM
Relay Team/PC Athlete Meeting
Transition Area – South End
7:50 AM
Age Group Athlete Meeting
Transition Area
7:55 AM
National Anthem and Invocation
Open/Elite Wave to Start Area
8:00 AM
Open/Elite Wave Start
Relay Team/PC Wave to Start Area
8:05 AM
Relay Team/PC Wave Start
Age Group Athletes Numbers 100 to 200 to Start Area
8:10 AM
Age Group Time Trial Start
Athlete Start every 3 seconds by number.
All Age Group Athletes move to Start Area and line up
by race number
8:30 AM (approximately)
First Open/Elite Wave athletes exit swim start bike.
9:00 AM (approximately)
Last Age Group athlete in swim
9:30AM (approximately)
First Open/Elite athletes exit bike and start run
10:00 AM (approximately)
All Athletes out of the Swim
Open/Elite Athletes Finishing
11:30 AM (approximately)
Transition Opens to Athletes after last biker in
and leaves for run.
Gear West Hot Dogs Available
12:00 PM
Post Race Prizes & Announcements
12:30 PM
Awards Ceremony
Gear West Prize Give Away
In the event of delay of 8:00AM start due to weather or safety conditions, the start will be moved back to 8:30AM. If conditions do not permit a swim, then same start order for run-bike-run format with athletes starting from transition area.
