We’ve been working behind the scenes to make your triathlon experience the best it can be.

With that in mind, we’ve reviewed all aspects of the West Lakes triathlons. With our community’s feedback we’ve made the following changes to make sure your races are safe, fun and fair for everyone.

The feedback was simple. Try and reduce the number of bikes on course at any one time. Less congestion, reduce drafting, maximise safety. To achieve the best race experience, we’ve looked at all areas of our event top to tail. We’re also working behind the scenes with our traffic management partners and local Government, however from a competitor experience the changes you’ll notice fall in to two categories.

• Course lengths
• Scheduling

COURSE LENGTH - RACE 2 AND RACE 4

Starting with our longest distance event, our long course will be aligning with national standards, evolving to the popular sprint distance…. almost.

To make this change our run needs no change, its 5kms already. Our bike will reduce to 3 laps of our 6.5km circuit. Our swim will be reduced 50m to give us a total race distance of 750m swim, 19.5km bike and 5km run. Our Aquabike will also be this distance minus the run.

Next is our medium course.

As the middle-distance event, it is sometimes called an enticer distance. having a sprint distance bike distance within an enticer event is unusual and not aligned to the rest of the events challenges, thus we’re reducing the bike leg back to two laps of the 6.5km bike. Total distance is now 300m swim, 13km bike, 2.5km run.

Finally, the Short Course. For many its their first experience at triathlon. Here our changes are very minor. We’ve ensuring our swim and run is the perfect blend of challenging and accessible for all. 100m swim, 6.5km bike and 1.8km run. The run being extended to 2 laps of our short loop.

RACE LENGTH AUSTRALIA DAY

The distances for Australia Day will remain unchanged except for an extra run lap for the short course to make it 1.8km run

Short Course: 100m swim, 6.5km bike, 1km run

Medium Course: 400m swim, 19.5km bike, 2.5km run

Long Course: 1000m swim, 32km bike, 7.5km run

Aquabike: 1000m swim, 32km bike. 

SCHEDULING

This is an important area to get right. Get it wrong and we have 400 bikes on a 6.5km course at once. Our changes moving forward can be summarised below

Thank you to everyone for their feedback and continued support for local triathlon races. We are confident that these new distances and schedule will make for safe, fun and challenging racing.

For those that have already registered for Race 2 on November 21st, should you wish to discuss the new distances and your continued entry, please contact us via the email link below