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WHAT: XTERRA Olympic Canyon VR Duathlons, presented by Gatorade Endurance
WHEN: September 24-28, 2020
WHERE: Virtual!
The XTERRA Olympic Canyon VR Duathlons presented by Gatorade Endurance are the third in a series of eight XTERRA VR races on the schedule this season.
The theme for this one is RUSH FOR GOLD! Inspired by Utah, home to XTERRA's USA Championship and the 2002 Winter Olympics, the race combines a 5K run with a 28K bike and 10K run plus there are half-distance and relay team options too!
Entry is FREE for a great cause, the Trails Foundation of Northern Utah whose mission is to plan, promote, construct, and protect the public pathways, trails, and open spaces where XTERRA trains and races!
The event will be held over five days - Thursday, September 24 to Monday, September 28, and you can log your times any day over that time period.
OLYMPIC CANYON MERCHANDISE: Be sure to order your exclusive Olympic Canyon T-shirt and medal during registration. Orders are available globally. Click on the image below for a larger version.
Races
XTERRA OLYMPIC CANYON VIRTUAL FULL DUATHLON
Distances: 5k run | 28k bike | 10k run
XTERRA OLYMPIC CANYON VIRTUAL SPRINT DUATHLON
Distances: 2k run | 14k bike | 5k run
Virtual Race-day Hydration & Fuel
KISS YOUR VIRTUAL RACE-DAY HYDRATION & FUEL WORRIES GOODBYE
You’ve got an amazing virtual race planned and Gatorade Endurance is here to make it even better. In place of your typical on-course experience, Gatorade Endurance has created a customized online platform where participants receive a personalized race bib, product discount code, and can learn how to properly fuel!
Gatorade Endurance products are specifically designed to help endurance athletes (like you!) stay hydrated & fueled while training and racing over prolonged periods when fluid and electrolyte losses can be high.
Take advantage of the 25% off discount code to load up on products like Endurance Formula or Energy Gels to round out your fueling plan!
DESTINATION UTAH
It’s long been said that XTERRA is more than just a race, it’s a lifestyle. Perhaps nowhere is that more evident than in Utah where the Ogden City Mayor, Mike Caldwell, was the founder and race director for the first XTERRA Ogden race back in 2004.
Mayor Caldwell and a collection of the most welcoming locals to be found anywhere rallied the entire community to bring off-road triathlon to their hometown more than a decade ago and are themselves everyday XTERRA people. They swim, bike, and run in the mountains, have fun, eat well, laugh, and unpretentiously perpetuate the sports’ motto to “Live More.”
Here are just a few of the cool things the XTERRA Family can see, do, and eat in UTAH!
Snowbasin Resort: Just 35 miles north of Salt Lake City, the race venue at Snowbasin is world-class and was home to the downhill and Super G races of the 2002 Winter Olympics. While it is an epic spot for winter sports (think 3,000 skiable acres and 3,000 vertical feet), Snowbasin is also ideal in the summer time and when the Fall colors turn the mountain landscape into a kaleidoscope of colors, it’s simply spectacular.
Historic 25th Street: Right in the heart of downtown Ogden, 25th street has it all with incredible restaurants like Rooster’s Brewing Company, and Tona Sushi Bar & Grill, colorful history and museums at Union Station, an outdoor amphitheater, art galleries, retail shops. The city of Ogden was the first settlement in Utah and today is a notoriously independent community with hundreds of locally owned restaurants, bars and retailers. This city is also a hot spot for skiing, high adventure sports, shopping and a bustling nightlife and dining.
For the kids: Get an up-close look at the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex at Ogden’s Dinosaur Park where they have hands on exhibits and eight acres of lifesized dinosaurs in a natural outdoor environment. Also check out the award-winning exhibits and programs at the Treehouse Children’s Museum, and run & ride in XTERRA’s free kids races on Friday, September 15 starting at 4pm.
Utah Olympic Park: Built for the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Utah Olympic Park is located in Park City, just 25 miles east of Salt Lake City. The nearly 400-acre venue houses one of only four sliding tracks in North America, six Nordic ski jumps, a 2002 Winter Games museum, and a multitude of adventure activities.
ATV Pailute Trail: South-Central Utah’s 275-mile long trail is a loop with no beginning and no end. It passes through several towns and has side trails leading to others.
White water river rafting: There are 16 rivers to raft in Utah offering varying levels in difficulty on a scale from 1-6.
Ski/snowboard: With an average of 50 annual inches of Utah dry, snow powder, you can be assured you will find great snow conditions on some of the most challenging slopes in the world at 14 ski areas.
Trails: In addition to the course offerings at Snowbasin take some time to ride the east bench of Ogden “home to a spaghetti bowl of singletrack trails,” and the pristine Bonneville Shoreline Trail along the slope of the Wasatch Mountains where the old shoreline of Lake Bonneville met the hills.
Discover: Eleven national parks and 170,000 acres of National Forest with more than 210 miles of US Forest Service maintained mountain biking, hiking, and equestrian trails are less than a day’s drive from Ogden. With places like Zion, Canyonlands, Arches, and Moab; Utah is indeed the State of Sport.
- Zion National Park: Utah’s first national park features more than 90 miles of backpacking and hiking trails. Visitors can also go canyoneering down or rock climbing up Zion’s 2,000-foot-tall sandstone cliffs.
- Bryce Canyon National Park: Hiking and horseback riding are great ways to see the sunset-colored rock formations called, hoodoos.
- Arches National Park: Jaw dropping red rock formations, including 2,000-plus natural arches. Some of the parks most popular rock formations include Landscape Arch, the Windows Section, and Fiery Furnace.
- Moab: offers outdoor activities like biking, hiking, off-roading and whitewater rafting. For a bird’s eye view of Moab’s stunning red rock formations, visitors can go skydiving or enjoy a scenic flight in a plane or hot air balloon.
- Great Salt Lake: Visit the largest natural lake west of the Mississippi River. It is too saline to support fish and most other aquatic species, but brine shrimp and brine flies can tolerate the high salt content and feed on the algae.
Other Scenic locations: https://travel.usnews.com/rankings/best-places-to-visit-in-utah/
Utah Sports Commission: The Utah Sports Commission is not only a huge supporter of XTERRA, but also more than 40 other world-class sporting events across the state. What they do for sports in Utah is amazing, see for yourself at utahsportscommission.com.
The People: Behind all these great things to see and do and eat are the good people of Ogden, led by the GOAL Foundation volunteers who work tirelessly to provide a great experience for all who visit this mountain town.
Other things to do: https://utah.com/things-to-do
