Good Morning All
A belated Happy New Year to you all.
Over the Christmas Break we have reviewed our plans for this year’s race alongside Anglian Water and we have decided that in order to maximise our chances of the race going ahead, with, or without social distancing, we need to bring our event forward a week to the weekend of 12th/13th June.
We know from our plans for 2020 that running a socially distanced event with over 400 participants on a single day would see us needing to put the entrance road to Alton Water out of use for most of the day. Anglian Water are understandably reluctant to reduce public access to that degree and would rather we have the race completed before midday.
Given that we hope to have nearer 500 competitors by June we have decided the best way to meet the midday timeline is to make the Alton Water Triathlon a weekend event;
Saturday 12th June
· Super Sprint Triathlon
· Sprint Triathlon
· Sprint Triathlon relay
· Sprint Aquabike
Sunday 13th June
· Standard Triathlon
· Standard Triathlon Relay
· Standard Aquabike
We will also be moving the Transition, Car Parking and Registration area to the east side (nearest the dam) of the Watersports Centre where we will have much more room to spread everything out and ensure we can socially distance waves of up to 250 competitors if needed. We have had to shift our date back a week as the site is not available on the Saturday before the currently scheduled date.
If you cannot make the revised date then please email us with your bank account name, sort-code and account number and we will arrange a refund of your entry less the £15 for admin costs detailed in the race rules.
Entries are open and we look forward to seeing you on either Saturday 12th or Sunday 13th June 2021.
Kind regards
Bill, Mark & Ruth
The Alton Water Triathlon Team