RACE INFORMATION

 

A Nebraska Parks Permit is required to enter the park. One day and yearly permits can be purchased from Portside Express Convenience store located just across the road from the park entrance. There is limited parking leading up to the race site inside the park with additional parking located at the GO KART/Restaurant just north of Portside Express Convenience store and the back side of the chapel across the road from the race course. The residents and local church have kindly allowed us to us their property for our race so PLEASE park only in designated areas only! These areas will be marked and volunteers will direct you where to go. Please us be able to bring back this race next year by picking up and disposing of your trash properly.    Camping is available a short distance from the transition inside the park and there additional camping out the west side of the lake as well. Olympic Distance Triathlon, 1500 meter swim, 24.9 mile cycle, 6.2 mile run.  Race start: July 10th 7:30am at the Southeast swim beach of Johnson Lake.  The swim will be a beach start with a clockwise swim around buoys.  The maximum water depth will only be about 6 feet deep.  There will be kayakers, jet skis, and rescue boats with trained lifeguards and rescue divers on standby.  Swimmers will leave the water and take a left turn, with a short jog through grass into transition.  Leaving the transition, bikers will take a right turn onto the Johnson Lake dam and continue along the main road around the lake.  Then at mile 5, they will take a left turn towards the West on Road 751 and head another 7 miles to the turn around where there will be a water station.  Bikers will then follow the same route back to transition.  Volunteers and EMS will be positioned along the road to monitor traffic but the course is an open course meaning that vehicle will only be stopped where there is a direct conflict such as turns and turnarounds. That traffic will be stopped temporally but will be allowed to resume when cross bike traffic has cleared.  So race with caution! After the second transition, runners will head North along the hike-and-bike trail for the first mile.  Then, Miles 2 thru 4 are gravel road surfaces, following along the side of the state park and the lake.  There will be a water station every mile along the run. The race course will be marked and race marshals and volunteers will be posted along the routes.