IT'S BACK: Battle in the Sand!
Help SB Tri Club get back the title from UCSB Tri Club. Sign up for a relay team of swimmers and runners. You can let us know if you'd prefer to swim, run or open to either or both! All levels are welcome and EVERYONE is encouraged to attend!!
The approximate swim distance is 500m ocean swim.
The approximate run distance is a 1 mile beach run.
Please sign up to participate (swim, run, both, either, volunteer to help) - HERE
Format of the event: Each club creates multiple 6 person relay teams (all women team, all men team, co-ed team), and the relay works like this: swim to run to swim to run to swim to run (3 swimmers and 3 runners per team). The club that has the most victories wins the trophy. We need as many participants as possible as we will field as many teams as possible, everyone participates!!
Look for the SB Tri Club tent on the beach in front of the Bathhouse. Help us crush UCSB Tri, then hang with the club, post race snack and beautiful sunshine provided!!
Bragging rights are at stake!
Join us for dinner at 6 PM, followed by formal meeting at 6:30 PM
Featured Speaker: Author, Coach and USA Triathlon Hall of Fame inductee, Cherie Gruenfeld.
Cherie will be speaking with us about her 30+ year career, sharing her tips on longevity in the sport of triathlon and inspiring us with her work supporting the lives of at-risk youth through her nonprofit organization, Exceeding Expectations.
Cherie is a 13-time IRONMAN world champion, multiple age group course record holder and a three-time IRONMAN 70.3 world champion. She is the founder of Exceeding Expectations, a San Bernardino-based nonprofit that encourages at-risk youth to move their lives in a positive direction using triathlon as a vehicle. The program prioritizes education, and through the support of generous donors, Cherie has been able to ensure that money will never be an obstacle for “EE Scholars” who are accepted into college.
For more information on Exceeding Expectations, click here.
Join us for a fun no-drop club ride!
East Beach
Roll out at 8:00am
Ride Distance: approximately 30 miles
We'll head out to Butterfly beach, then take Jameson to the bike path. Then we'll take Via Real to the 192, heading out to Gobernador Canyon Road where we'll do a nice climb before descending to the 150. We'll ride the freshly repaved 150 back to the 192 where we'll sync up with our outbound route and retrace our route back. Route map below.
Wear your club kit!
The Reef and Run season begins on Thursday, June 2 and totals 12 weeks. The last races of the season are August 18. The Boat to Beach race, for which participants must qualify, will be held on August 25.
Swimmers can choose between the Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, the Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim and the Advanced Veterinary Specialists 1-mile swim.
Registration begins on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and races start at 6:30.
Walk-up entry fees for each individual event during the season remains $15 per night. Besides the weekly swimming races, athletes can also compete in any of the four Stuart J. Sato, DDS Biathlons. Youth swimmers can participate in the Mullen & Henzell Youth 1K Grand Prix or the Howell, Moore, & Gough U12 500M Grand Prix.
Echelon Santa Barbara is hosting a Road Cycling Skills Clinic on June 4. This is an opportunity you really don’t want to miss. Your $150 gets you half a day of intense work with two great coaches, your one-day USAC license, and lunch after at Panino in Los Olivos. Only 12 participants max, 5 spots already taken! Register now, registration ends when we fill up – no day-of registration. Triathletes take note: To participate you must be on a standard road bike with dropped handlebars – no tri bars!
Please join us Saturday June 4 at Echelon's 2nd Cycling Skills Clinic, led by Coaches Jill Gass (https://www.revolutioncoaching.com/jill-gass) & Nate Loyal (https://www.loyalcoaching.com/about)
Skills Clinic Registration (http://echelonsantabarbara.org/calendar) The last time we did this (Pre-Covid) it was a great success; you won't want to miss this opportunity to learn new skills or brush up (on what you think you know.)
- If you are nervous about riding in a group - this is for you.
- If drafting seems crazy - this is for you.
- If you watch bicycle racing on tv and wonder about pace lines - this is for you.
- If riding too close makes you uncomfortable - this is for you.
- If you want to learn how to do an emergency stop - this is for you.
- If you want to improve your bike handling skills - this is for you.
- Want to be a better climber? Likewise.
- Do you want to be a more confident descender? We can help with that.
- Do you want to be a smarter, safer rider?
If you think you already have all the necessary skills, you'll be surprised at what you can learn in a day working with coaches with the expertise of Jill & Nate. (Plus, it's really a lot of fun!)
It takes a lot of work to put this together - we have USAC permits & insurance and we will cover the cost of the one-day USAC license you'll need. Echelon Santa Barbara (http://echelonsantabarbara.org) is doing this as a service to the community. We'll even provide lunch!
All you need to do is take advantage of this great opportunity. June 4 is approaching! Register Now! (http://echelonsantabarbara.org/calendar) If we don't have a sufficient number of participants we may have to cancel! To maximize your experience this is limited to 12 riders.
The Reef and Run season begins on Thursday, June 2 and totals 12 weeks. The last races of the season are August 18. The Boat to Beach race, for which participants must qualify, will be held on August 25.
Swimmers can choose between the Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, the Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim and the Advanced Veterinary Specialists 1-mile swim.
Registration begins on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and races start at 6:30.
Walk-up entry fees for each individual event during the season remains $15 per night. Besides the weekly swimming races, athletes can also compete in any of the four Stuart J. Sato, DDS Biathlons. Youth swimmers can participate in the Mullen & Henzell Youth 1K Grand Prix or the Howell, Moore, & Gough U12 500M Grand Prix.
The Reef and Run season begins on Thursday, June 2 and totals 12 weeks. The last races of the season are August 18. The Boat to Beach race, for which participants must qualify, will be held on August 25.
Swimmers can choose between the Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, the Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim and the Advanced Veterinary Specialists 1-mile swim.
Registration begins on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and races start at 6:30.
Walk-up entry fees for each individual event during the season remains $15 per night. Besides the weekly swimming races, athletes can also compete in any of the four Stuart J. Sato, DDS Biathlons. Youth swimmers can participate in the Mullen & Henzell Youth 1K Grand Prix or the Howell, Moore, & Gough U12 500M Grand Prix.
The Reef and Run season begins on Thursday, June 2 and totals 12 weeks. The last races of the season are August 18. The Boat to Beach race, for which participants must qualify, will be held on August 25.
Swimmers can choose between the Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, the Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim and the Advanced Veterinary Specialists 1-mile swim.
Registration begins on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and races start at 6:30.
Walk-up entry fees for each individual event during the season remains $15 per night. Besides the weekly swimming races, athletes can also compete in any of the four Stuart J. Sato, DDS Biathlons. Youth swimmers can participate in the Mullen & Henzell Youth 1K Grand Prix or the Howell, Moore, & Gough U12 500M Grand Prix.
Please join us for our annual event to commemorate beloved club members, Steve Issaris and Sandy Roberts. All are welcome to this fun and informal Sprint Triathlon. This is a great way to train and celebrate the people that lift us up the way Steve and Sandy did.
In the spirit of lifting others up, we are partnering with Exceeding Expectations who will be our charity partner for this event.
Exceeding Expectations, a program in San Bernardino that serves an inner-city population, is designed to encourage at-risk kids to move their lives in a positive direction, using the sport of triathlon as the vehicle.
The goal is not to develop the kids into elite athletes, but rather to offer them opportunities to participate in a lifestyle that is healthy, goal-oriented and very unlike that which they experience in their everyday lives. We strive to replace negative influences with positive role models and to instill in the kids a powerful new discipline of setting measurable goals and working hard to achieve them.
Our highest priority is education, and our ultimate objective is to ensure that every one of the kids graduates high school and goes on to college. We make this promise to all the EE kids: When you get into college, we'll make sure money isn't an obstacle.
EE is donor-funded and run by volunteers. We have no paid staff and no professional fund-raisers. With the exception of insurance costs, we have no administrative expenses: Every penny we collect directly benefits the kids.
What does that mean for you as a participant?
We are asking participants to make a donation to Exceeding Expectations. The suggested donation amount is $30, however any amount that is comfortable for you is acceptable. Donations can be made directly to Exceeding Expectations here, or we will accept cash and check donations at Steve's Triathlon, which will be submitted directly to Exceeding Expectations. Checks should be made out to "Exceeding Expectations".
Donors will be entered into a prize raffle from Zone 3 and Goleta Beach Triathlon. We will be raffling off a Zone 3 Parka Robe ($159 value) and TWO entries to Goleta Beach Triathlon.
Steve's Triathlon Event Details:
- Check-in begins at 7:30 AM - look for the SB Tri Club pop-up
- Please check-in so that we can capture your name for the SB Tri Club Championship challenge
- Non-Members will need to sign a waiver
- Donations can be made onsite, please bring cash or check (made out to Exceeding Expectations) and we will ensure you get a donation receipt as well.
- Announcements will begin at 8:30 AM
- Event starts at 9 AM
- We will have snacks and beverages
- Raffle takes place after the event!
See below for course maps and approximate distances:
Swim (750 m)
Bike (11 miles)
Run (5k)
The Reef and Run season begins on Thursday, June 2 and totals 12 weeks. The last races of the season are August 18. The Boat to Beach race, for which participants must qualify, will be held on August 25.
Swimmers can choose between the Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, the Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim and the Advanced Veterinary Specialists 1-mile swim.
Registration begins on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and races start at 6:30.
Walk-up entry fees for each individual event during the season remains $15 per night. Besides the weekly swimming races, athletes can also compete in any of the four Stuart J. Sato, DDS Biathlons. Youth swimmers can participate in the Mullen & Henzell Youth 1K Grand Prix or the Howell, Moore, & Gough U12 500M Grand Prix.