Tomorrow we will see the announcement of the new Ironman St. George race set to take place the first weekend in May 2010.
Back in 2002 the city of Provo, Utah was hosting it's innagural Ironman Utah triathlon event. The race was being staged on the shores of Utah Lake.
"The scheduled start of Ironman Utah was nearly five minutes away the morning of June 8 as hundreds of racers forged ahead into Utah Lake. Frustrated race organizers eventually succumbed to the disorganized swarm and fired their canon to start the race but then 30 minutes later officials were struggling to get everyone out of the water"
Five minutes after the start of the race 40 mph winds turned the relatively calm waters of Utah Lake into chaos with 3-foot swells. In the end, a 53-year-old California man died. Nearly two months later Graham Fraser announced that the Utah race would be cancelled and moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho in 2003.
Click the link Tragedy, Confusion Mar Ironman Utah Debut to read the entire story of the inagural Ironman Utah race.
Now nearly 7 years later the World Triathlon Corporation is ready to give the state of Utah another shot with a totally new Ironman triathlon event.
The new race will take place in the city of St. George which is in the Southwest corner of Utah next to Zion National Park. The swim would take place in Sand Hollow and the bike portion of the race would go through the town of Gunlock. The run portion of the Ironman race would finish in the city center of St. George.
Stay tuned for futher details tomorrow...
Washington County and World Triathlon Corporation will be conducting a press conference tomorrow March 18, 2008 at Town Square in St. George, Utah to announce North America’s newest Ironman event - Ford Ironman St. George.
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