Hello athletes. We will be offering 4 $500 grants from USAT Northeast which are available to all athletes and may be used for travel, camps etc. There will also be another $500 grant available from USAT High Performance for new athletes that haven’t received grants in the past and are racing at one of the draft legal events this year. This can’t be used for travel to international events. Please contact RADC Matt Valyo for more details. Click on the link below for a copy of the grant application. The application is in a pdf format so you can either mail it or write over it and send it electronically.

Click here for the grant application

The dates are set for this year’s series. Some races registrations have already opened so make your plans quickly. Cohasset is already sold out so contact RADC Matt Valyo for information about the wait list there. Start training! The 2013 Season is right around the corner!

Then next time someone blows by you on their $6000 aero carbon fiber rocket ship bike or swims over the top of you like they are wrestling an alligator, smile and say, “Thank you. Have a great day!”

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Early triathlons were held as off-beat training exercises for runners. The first known swim/bike/run triathlons were held at San Diego’s (Calif.) Mission Bay in 1974. Organized by members of the San Diego Track Club, the events were held on summer evenings and were intended as no more than light-hearted breaks in the normal grind of training for marathons and 10Ks. One athlete who raced at the first Mission Bay Triathlon, John Collins, was very influential in the further development of the sport. Collins, a U.S. Naval Officer, took the triathlon concept to Hawaii and used it several years later to combine three of Oahu’s endurance events – the Waikiki Rough Water Swim, the Around-Oahu Bike Ride and the Honolulu Marathon – into one race: the Ironman.

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