Welcome Tavistock Tri participants,
We can't wait to see you on the start line on 16-July!
From self-marking for the swim at home to virtual race briefings, this pack walks you through the different elements that you need to be aware of prior and during the event:
Missing any information in this pack? Let us know. Email: cornwall@intotri.com
ATHLETE PACK - TAVISTOCK TRIATHLON
Know what to expect and come prepared - everyone deserves a great day out!
Follow the instructions on the START LIST tab of this pack to:
Find out more about specific elements of the event by ticking the respective boxes below or leave blank to display the full event guide.
Please use the official event parking area below. Strictly no parking at Mount Kelly Swim Centre!
We have streamlined the check-in process to limit queues to an absolute minimum. Upon arrival, please follow the one-way system with your bike and kit to registration. Junior athletes to be accompanied by one parent only.
ONE-WAY SYSTEM
Please follow the yellow arrows from parking to registration and the transition zone. Once registered and set up in transition, proceed to spectator zone to await your start.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
Come prepared and be done in a few seconds to help us avoid queues.
Step 1:
Step 2:
Pick up your event pack and safety pins (if needed). The event pack contains:
Step 3:
Once registered, wheel your bike to transition following the yellow arrows (see map in registration section) along the one-way system.
Marshals will check your helmet strap and handlebar end plugs before you are allowed to place your bike on your designated rack. You will find your racking number on the START LIST tab.
Please rack your bike by looping the saddle over the horizontal bar, one bike facing left, next right (5 bikes per rack) and store your kit to the left of your bike (when looking at the rack). Remember, no boxes allowed in transition. A small soft backed backpack is fine but keep your kit to a minimum as space is at a premium.
Remember to stick the number label from your event pack to the front of your head tube. To pick up your bike post event, marshals will check that the sticker on your bike matches your race number. No match, no bike.
Collecting bikes & kit post event:
Please note, you will be able to pick up your bike at once everyone has finished the bike element of the event. Please check-in and out with the transition marshals to verify that your race number matches the numbered bike sticker.
HANDY TIPS
Organise
When setting up transition, only take the essentials in with you. This will help you get in and out of transition quicker with minimal fuss and stress!
Visualise
Transition can often be a busy and sometimes confusing place on event day. Make sure you know your swim exit, bike out & in and run out to help gain those precious seconds! Familiarise yourself with the one-way system and look out for something visual near your bike slot, making it easy to spot when you are running into transition.
Prepare
Make sure your bike is set up in the right gear. You don’t want to be left struggling in the first few meters of the event.
TRANSITION MAP (Senior Event)
TRANSITION MAP (Junior Event)
While participants have access to dedicated changing facilities at Mount Kelly Swim Centre from 7:00am onwards, we highly recommend arriving changed for the swim. This will allow you to take off no longer needed layers in the transition zone. Please only keep the gear you need for the cycle and run leg in the transition zone as space is limited. Store unnecessary kit in your car or near registration at you own risk.
Please proceed through the finish arch, keeping the finish area clear for other participants to run in. Make sure you take off your chip and place it in the bucket provided. Grab your well earned finish medal and water from the table just past the finish line.
There will be water available at the finish area. Please use it to refill your own bike bottle to limit any waste. Hot and cold drinks, as well as food will be available to purchase near the finish.
Presentations will be outside at the finish area at approximately 11:30am (adults) and 4:30pm (juniors) with prizes awarded to the 1st to 3rd place winners, male and female, in the following age groups (age as of 31-Dec of participating year):
You will receive a chip-timing device for the duration of the race. Competitors must wear their allocated chip on their left ankle throughout the event and ensure they place it in the bucket provided at the end of the race. Lost chips are subject to a £30 fee to replace. they are not the property of IntoTri!
Live results will be available on site but are subject to change. We will upload all timings within 24h of the event to intotri.com/cornish-tri
Spectators are most welcome at IntoTRI’s Cornish Tri Series. In Tavistock we have a dedicated specatator zone which has a view over the transition and finish area, as well as the junior bike and run course (see map in registration section above). For safety and security reasons spectators can NOT enter the following areas:
IntoTRI’s Cornish Tri Series is staged on open roads (adult event only). Please be mindful of other road users and pedestrians/cyclists. Marshals are placed at strategic points to ensure your safety and keep the impact on other road users to a minimum. Please follow their directions at all times, they are there to make the event enjoyable and safe for all, not to prevent PBs.
Getting Help
If you have any problems whilst out on the course, please stay where you are and tell the next competitor that you see. We will get out to you as soon as possible and bring both you and/or your bike back to the leisure centre. If you see a competitor in trouble please notify a marshal who will be in contact with the organiser via mobile phone.
Withdrawal
If you withdraw from the event at any time, please let the event director know as we may think that you are still out on the course and will go to search for you. Contact details: Ben Kent
M: 07591187058, E: ben@intotri.com
Please familiarise yourself with the briefing notes below, which replace the mandatory race briefing on site. Any last minute announcements from the race director will be displayed on a notice board at registration.
The Micro Squirrel is a fun, non-timed introduction to intoTRI’s Mini Tri events. We are using a rolling start, limiting the number of children on course to max 15. Parents are encouraged to support their children in a socially distanced area to change from run to bike and bike to run.
Please take your child's bike out of the transition zone and proceed to the start location 10min before the start of the event.
AT HOME
Body-mark yourself for the start at home! Please use a marker pen to:
THE RULES
THE COURSE
The Bike and Run routes follow a flat course on Mount Kelly's Sports fields. Children run 1x lap of the course before picking up their bikes from their parents, who will be waiting in a dedicated area. After cycling 1x lap, participants drop off bikes with their parents and head out for a 340m run to the finish, where they can collect their well deserved medal. Marshals will be at hand to direct your children around the course.
COURSE MAPS (interactive)
Press play button to start. Use the dropdown menu in the top right to toggle between street and satellite maps.
Body-mark yourself for the swim at home! Please use a marker pen to:
BEFORE THE SWIM
VENUE MAP
SWIM PROCEDURE: OLYMPIC
Competitors enter the pool hall and line up in race number order (written on their left hand). Starting in the water (strictly no diving), participants will be set off in 10 sec intervals (3 sec countdown), snaking through the pool for their allocated swim distance. Starting on one side of the pool, participants swim up and down each double lane (keeping right), duck under the lane rope and up and down the next lane, duck under the rope and so forth, exiting the pool on the other side.
To overtake, tap the feet of the swimmer in front of you and proceed to overtake swiftly on the left. If your feet are being tapped, proceed at your pace staying right and let the faster swimmer pass.
SWIM PROCEDURE
Competitors enter the pool hall and line up in race number order (written on their left hand). Starting in the water (strictly no diving), participants will be set off in 10 sec intervals (3 sec countdown), snaking through the pool for their allocated swim distance. Starting on one side of the pool (or the middle, depending on the distance), participants swim up one lane (keeping right), duck under the lane rope and swim down the next lane, duck under the rope and so forth, exiting the pool on the other side.
SWIM PROCEDURE: MINI TRI
Competitors enter the pool hall and line up in race number order (written on their left hand). Starting in the water (strictly no diving), participants will be set off in 10 sec intervals (3 sec countdown), snaking through the pool for their allocated swim distance. Starting on one side of the pool (or the middle, depending on the distance), participants swim up one lane, duck under the lane rope and swim down the next lane, duck under the rope and so forth, exiting the pool on the other side.
To overtake, tap the feet of the swimmer in front of you and proceed to overtake swiftly on the right. If your feet are being tapped, proceed at your pace staying left and let the faster swimmer pass.
SWIM RULES
SWIM TO BIKE TRANSITION
Please obey the no running rule poolside when leaving the water and exit the pool area via the designated route. The time will be taken at transition so the run to transition will be included in your swim time.
Note: We are operating a dedicated show drop zone outside the pool area as the run to transition is on mixed surface that may become slippery when wet. Please ensure that you take all your kit with you back to transition after your swim.
RELAY TEAMS
The hand over from swim to bike will be in the transition zone. Bike riders will need to wait to the left hand side of their racked bike. Once the timing chip has been handed over and fastened to the cyclist’s ankle, riders can put on their helmet, fasten the straps and un-rack their bike.
Distance - Little Squirrel: 12.9k
The Little Squirrel takes in a subsection of the Big Squirrel course, leaving the A386 after 1k, skirting along the edge of Dartmoor National Park past the Gliding Society before rejoining the Big Squirrel course half way between Brentor and Tavistock before looping back to Mount Kelly.
Distance - Big Squirrel: 18.5k
The Big Squirrel bike course follows an 18.5k loop on open roads to North Brentor via Mary Tavy and back to Mount Kelly via Tavistock.
Distance - Olympic Squirrel: 36.4k
The Olympic Squirrel bike course takes in two loops of an 18.2k route on open roads to North Brentor via Mary Tavy and back to Mount Kelly via Tavistock.
Loops - Mini Tri: 1x (8y), 2x (9-10y), 3x (11-12y), 5x (13/14y), 7x (15-16y)
(All age groups as of 31-Dec of the participating year)
Participants follow a loop on Mount Kelly’s cricket field. While the grass is very smooth, tires with a little bit of tread are recommended. Please stay LEFT at all times unless overtaking.
Note: While we have taken every care to mark the non-drafting course with large yellow signs, competitors are responsible for negotiating the route correctly, safely and within the rules of the road. Marshals along the course do NOT have the authority to stop traffic.
Note: There will be marshals at hand at key points along the course; however it is the child’s responsibility to know the route. All children will need to complete the appropriate number of laps according to their age before returning to the transition zone to rack their bikes.
Please note, we will NOT hand out lap bands to help with lap counting for the time being due to increased Covid-19 hygiene standards and to maintain a safe distance between marshals and athletes.
RULES
THE ROUTE: LITTLE SQUIRREL
The following highlights the key hazards along the Little Squirrel bike route to be mindful of, it is NOT a full route description. Please check the interactive map below where these hazards are highlighted as N1-6:
Any rule violations and inappropriate competitor conduct may result in disqualification in accordance with British Triathlon rules and the event code of conduct.
THE ROUTE:
The following highlights the key hazards along the Big Squirrel (1x loop) and Olympic Squirrel (2x loops) bike route to be mindful of, it is NOT a full route description. Please check the interactive map below where these hazards are highlighted as N1-10:
THE ROUTE
The following highlights the key hazards along the Mini Tri bike route to be mindful of, it is NOT a full route description. Please check the interactive map below where these hazards are highlighted as N1-3:
After completing the bike leg, the bike needs to be racked first before the timing chip can be handed over to the runner waiting to the left of the bike slot.
COURSE MAP (interactive)
Press play button to start
Distance - Little Squirrel: 2.3k
After a winding path to the top of the school grounds, the Little Squirrel run course turns right for a traffic free loop over viaducts before a 180 degree turn back to the start.
Note: While we have taken every care to mark the course with pink signs, competitors are responsible for negotiating the route correctly, safely and within the rules of the road. Marshals along the course do NOT have the authority to stop traffic.
Distance - Big Squirrel: 5.2k
After reaching the top of the school grounds, the out and back Big Squirrel run course joins Old Exeter Rd before following the traffic free Viaduct Walk to theturning point.
Distance - Olympic Squirrel: 9.7k
After reaching the top of the school grounds, the Olympic Squirrel run course turns right to the first turning point before joining Old Exeter Rd and the traffic free Viaduct Walk to the 2nd turning point. After a mini loop on the Viaduct Walk, athletes retrace their steps to the start.
Loops - Mini Tri: 1x (8y), 2x (9-10y), 3x (11-12y), 4x (13/14y), 6x (15-16y)
The Mini Tri run route follows a multi lap course on Mount Kelly's cricket field. Please note, it is the child’s responsibility to know the route they are required to complete.
Note: There will be marshals at hand at key points along the course; however it is the child’s responsibility to know the route. All children will need to complete the appropriate number of laps according to their age before crossing the finish line.
The following highlights the key hazards along the run route to be mindful of. It is NOT a full route description. Please check the interactive maps below, where these hazards are highlighted as N1-3.
THE ROUTE: BIG SQUIRREL
The following highlights the key hazards along the run route to be mindful of. It is NOT a full route description. Please check the interactive maps below, where these hazards are highlighted as N1-6.
THE ROUTE: OLYMPIC SQUIRREL
The following highlights the key hazards along the Mini Tri run route to be mindful of, it is NOT a full route description. Please check the interactive map below where these hazards are highlighted as N1-2:
No assistance is permitted in the transition area (except for marshals helping our youngest participants to unrack their bikes). Please only enter the transition area where instructed to do so when racking your bike before your start as other competitors will already be racing and we do not want any chips being triggered by mistake.
CHECKLISTS
Bike out
Bike in
Run out:
Please proceed through the finish arch, keeping the finish area clear for other participants to run in. Make sure you take off your chip and place it in the bucket provided. Pick up your well deserved finish medal.
Presentations will be outside at the finish area at approximately 11:30am (adults) and 4:30pm (juniors) with prizes awarded to the 1st to 3rd place age group winners, male and female.
Please proceed through the finish arch, keeping the finish area clear for other participants to run in. Pick up your well deserved finish medal.
The start list and mandatory pre-event forms will be available in this section from Thursday, 13-July.
ONLINE CHECK-IN
In order to unlock your individual start time, registration slot and bike rack number, please complete the online check-in below and SUBMIT THE FORM. Athletes without a form submission will NOT be allowed to start at Tavistock Triathlon on 16-July.
NOTE: If multiple athletes are linked to your booking, this form needs to be filled in and submitted by each athlete (or parent on their behalf if under 18y).
You entered the event as a BTF member. Please fill in your details and upload your BTF ID to unlock your start time, registration slot and bike rack number.
While participating in events organised by intoTRI, social distancing must be practiced and face coverings worn in all indoor settings to reduce the risks of exposure to COVID-19. Because COVID-19 is extremely contagious and is spread mainly from person-to-person contact, intoTRI has put in place preventative measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, intoTRI cannot guarantee that its participants, volunteers, partners, or others in attendance will not become infected with COVID-19.
In light of the ongoing spread of COVID-19, individuals who fall within any of the categories below should not engage in intoTRI events. By attending an intoTRI event, you certify that you do not fall into any of the following categories:
Participants and volunteers agree to self-monitor for signs and symptoms of COVID-19 (symptoms typically include fever, cough, and shortness of breath) and, contact intoTRI at intotri.team@gmail.com if he/she experiences symptoms of COVID-19 within 14 days after participating or volunteering with intoTRI.