Those of you who have joined last years event will remember it as a glorious day for the TRIBEIJING Team, since all the age group wins went to our team mates. We hope to be able to put together a similar group again this year to give the locals a lesson in speed. Below are the race details and the registration form.

Date: July 22, 2007
Venue: Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, P.R. China (GE Link: )
Contact: Ms. Jin Wen

Telephone: 86-10-68826378
Fax: 86-10-68862596
Email: triathlon@ctsa.org.cn
URL: www.triathlon.org (ITU Website) & http://triathlon.sport.org.cn/en/
Mail Address: No.15, Laoshan West Street, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, P.R.China

EVENT DETAILS

Entry fee: non for overseas Elite athletes
Entry Deadline: July.13, 2007
Prize money: USD 15,000 & RMB 50,000 (split up into different categories)
Distances:
- Standard Distance 51.5km (Swim 1.5km, Bike 40km, Run 10km)
- Sprint Distance 25.75km (Swim 0.75km, Bike 20km, Run 5km)
- Fun Tri Distance about 7.2km (Swim 200m, Bike 5km, Run 2km)
Categories:
- Elite Men/Women
- Junior Sprint Men/Women
- Age Groups (Standard Distance & Sprint Distance)
- Fun Tri Groups

Start Mechanism: Beach running start
Swim Conditions: Sheltered sea bathing place, 2 laps (Triangle)
Predicted Water Temperature: about 25℃
Bike Course: Almost Flat, asphalt road, 8 laps (nasty turns!)
Run Course: Flat, asphalt road, 2 laps (same course as bike)

TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION

We strongly advise not to take the flight to Shenyang because transport to Jinzhou takes about as long as a car ride from Beijing. Jinzhou can be reached within 5 hours from Beijing. We will send around a mail to the TRIBEIJING mailing list to organise travel.

Please read the attached documents for more information about accomodation.

RACE DETAILS

RACE ENTRY FORM

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Race information

Registration Form

Our friend and fellow rider Shen Wenhui has made a tape of the first TT in the TREK Time Trial Series 2007. He has asked me to put it online for all of you to watch and enjoy.

The video is highly compressed, but the filesize is still quite big (28mb), so be patient or download the file to your desktop and open it with our .flv player of choice (Standalone FLV Player. No installation needed, just double click and point to the downloaded file)

For anyone who is interested in a DVD of this video, please send an email to the website administration. Shen Wenhui will send you a copy by mail.

Lance (guilty until proven innocent) and all the other American riders are doing it until they join the hill races in the old territories. In America it is a very important step on the way to become one of the few chosen riders, in Europe we don’t really talk about it that much, but TREK is bringing it on in China for the third time in three years; I am talking about the TREK Summer Criterium Race Series

To all those that have never been to a criterium race let me give you a short description. Imagine a bunch of cyclists pouring onto an F3 race track, lining up in the start area and then starting to pedal like idiots in circles for an hour. See the fun in it? We certainly do, and that is why we will be at it again starting from June 6th at 18:00 on the Goldenport F3 Race Track close to Beijing International Airport.

The race will start at 18:30 sharp. Be there at 18:00 for registration and warm-up. Race duration is 60 minutes + 1 Lap.

Race Dates:

Jun 6
Jun 13
Jun 27

Jul 4
Jul 11
Jul 18

Aug 1
Aug 22
Aug 29

Sep 5

Venue: Goldenport Race Track Beijing
Time: 18:00 sharp
Duration: 1 hour + 1 lap
Fee: 40RMB
Directions: (Golden Port on Google Earth)

The TREK Time Trial Series 2007 will start this weekend with a 22km individual TT.

The Individual Time Trial this Sunday is on the connecting road between KuanGou Government resort and the main road that goes up to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. It is an “out and back” TT which will be a total of around 20+km. You might consider riding out from Starbucks (about 1hr 5-10min to start point), do the TT and then return.

Time：May 20th 09：30 AM
Location: Huairou District, Kuangou
Map: (Only very bad quality available on Google Earth)
Distance: 22km

Registration：Call Windspeed 010 8562 2509，or register upon arrival on Sunday。
Fee: 40RMB (You get a discount if you register for 3 Events: 100RMB).

This year TREK China will organize three events, so mark the dates in your race calendars:

First Stage: Sunday May 20th (22km)
Second Stage: July 7th (33km)
Third Stage: September 1st (44km)

A bus will start from the Chaoyangmen Windspeed Store at 07:30 AM sharp. Call CUI Kai for details about transport: +86 13601311343 (崔凯)

You may have picked up a leaflet at your local Shimano Dealer already, but for some of you this might be news.

The Shimano Biker’s Festival is being hosted in 5 cities in China Between the 1st of July and the 12th of August. The procedure is similar in all cities, but tribeijing.org will only focus on the Beijing station.

Stations:

Guangzhou
July 1st
Registration Deadline: June 16th

Nanjing
July 8th
Registration Deadline: June 24th

Beijing
July 15th
Registration Deadline: July 1st

Shenyang
July 29th
Registration Deadline: July 15th

Chengdu
August 12th
Registration Deadline: July 29th

Beijing Race Station Details:

Race Categories:

- Individual Road: Beginners (10km), Mid-Level (25-30km) and Open (30-40km) category

- Individual MTB: Beginners (10km), Mid-Level (12km) and Open (15km) category

- MTB Relay: 4 laps

- Others: There will also be races for youngsters and elderlies of both sexes.

Regulations:

- Your bike has to be race fit. It will be checked before you enter the course.
- You need to wear a helmet and gloves during the race.
- You should know the basics of riding a bike.

Prizes:

Who cares. This is just a great opportunity to meet fellow two-wheelers!

Course Map:
(Download Google Earth here: GEarth)

Registration Points:

Any Shimano certified dealer in your neighbourhood (see Shop Locator: Click here)

Registration Fee:

Shimano-Club Members: 40RMB
Others: 100RMB

Registration Form:

More Information:

Official Website (Chinese only)

Time and Location
May 19th 2007
Gaoyakou

Organizer
Windspeed Cycling

Course and Timing
Start：Gaoyakou Village on the open space by the public toilet (talk about a description!)
Finish：Finish line on top of Gaoyakou
Distance： 14km (ridiculous!)
Registration: 09:30
Race start: 10:00
Duration: 1 hour

Race Registration

Register with at one of the Windspeed Stores around town (directions here: Store Locator)
People with race number: Free
Others: 10RMB

Transportation
Windspeed offers transportation by Bus to and from the race location. Go to one of their stores to register for this.

Bus location: Windspeed Shuangyushu Store (directions see store locator above)
Departure: 08:00 sharp (be there at 07:30 to make sure)
Cost: 30RMB/Person

On April 28, 2007, The Beijing Triathlon Association is organizing a Duathlon in Pinggu District 60km to the east of Beijing. If you are interested in participating in this event, please read the following document and download the registration form. The official map of the course is in Chinese and seems to be a relic of pre-digital times. I tried to follow the course in Google Earth, but the image quality of this area is pretty bad.

Please click on the image to view a fullsize picture of the course.

Seeing as you are all very eager for the new season to start but probably still a bit weary as to exactly which races you want to incorporate in our pre-season training schedule, I prepared a list of races that might be of interest to some of you.

The list is a translation of a document which can be found on the website of the Chinese Triathlon Association (CTA)

This list will be updated as soon as we get new information. As always, I suggest that those of you with access to Chinese language support head over to the guys at Dongfanghong to check out the rumour mill in the forums (DFH).

While we are still preparing for the weekend and looking forward to the 24th of September, there is already another opportunity sneaking up on us fast; the Beijing Marathon will let thousands of people lose on the streets of Beijing on the 15th of October 2006.

Siegfried has been in touch with Yang XU already to verify our registration fees. Our expat fee will be 80RMB for the full marathon (60RMB for the half marathon) if we sign up with Yang at swissôtel.

Event: Beijing Marathon
Date: October 15, 2006
Time: 08:00 Tiananmen Square
Race Course: Click here
Runners Guidebook: Guidebook (pdf)
URL: Official Website

We can organize a collective registration. If you want to register for the event, please click on the link below to go to the registration page and submit your details.

To all those that have never been to a criterium race let me give you a short description. Imagine a bunch of cyclists pouring onto a F3 race track, lining up in the start area and then starting to pedal like idiots in circles for an hour. See the fun in it? We all do, and that is why we will be at it again on Wednesday (August 30th) at 18:00 on the Goldenport Race Track.

Venue: Goldenport Race Track Beijing
Time: 18:00 !!!
Duration: 1 hour
Fee: 40RMB
Directions:

A bus leaves from the Windspeed shop near Chaoyangmen.