Triathlons increasing in popularity in Wisconsin
Better late in the season than never to note the growing popularity of triathlons in Wisconsin. In her story titled “We’re catching triathlon fever” in today’s Capital Times, staff reporter Katie Dean made a lot of calls, including to this blogger, to get a rather thorough sense of the excitement newcomers are bringing to the multisport.
Dean also wrote the sidebar “Be medically cleared before triathlon training.”
(For the record, the listing of 62 triathlons in the 2007 Silent Sports calendar – up from 44 in 2003 – is likely closer to the total number of tris in the state than the “couple hundred” guesstimated by a coach in Verona.)
For a pdf of the 2007 May-October multisport calendar – including triathlons, duathlons and adventure races – look here. Scroll down to the second item under the heading “multisports.”
– Joel Patenaude