Just like the athletes, spectators can be picked up from 3 convenient locations within the city on race day and taken to race start. Pick-up locations are the Westin Hotel, T2 near North Glenmore Park and McMahon Stadium. Cost is $10. Following the swim, buses will transport spectators to the finish line and then [...]
Viterra Ironman 70.3 Calgary is proud to announce five charity entry spots for the Calgary 70.3 half-Ironman. The proceeds of these entries are going to support that Jason Lapierre Scholarship fund at the University of Calgary. On July 19th 2006 we of lost a very good friend when Jason Lapierre was hit by a car [...]
New to Ironman races? Never competed in a point-to-point race before? We have received numerous emails from people asking about race day logistics. We compiled this Ironman Calgary Race Day for dummies to guide you through the day and answer many of these questions. Please let us know if you have others and we’ll add [...]
Viterra Ironman 70.3 Calgary is excited to announce that Craig Alexander will challenge an international field at Western Canada’s only Ironman 70.3 event on August 2nd, 2009. Craig “Crowie” Alexander is a world class professional triathlete with nearly a decade of racing experience. Coming off a World Championship victory at last year’s Ironman Hawaii, seen [...]
Brian Cowie, races in tandem with 25-year-old pilot Devon Smibert. Brain is a two time world championship silver medallist in the triathlon for athletes with a disability. Named Triathlon Canada’s athlete of the year in the disabled category in 2008, he started to lose his sight at age 22 due to a degenerative problem He [...]
This month we will have a combination of tempo runs and interval runs. We haven’t done a lot o interval running in this program, so you will need to be sure that you warm up very well and take a balanced approach to these workouts. Interval running can be very injury causing (that’s why we [...]
For this month we recommend that swim workouts include aerobic sessions (on easy days) and anaerobic threshold sessions on tougher days. We are including two aerobic and two anaerobic workouts below. Both are important, so try to fit them in. We are also recommending some optional swims – these are identified as swim choice workouts. [...]
