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Ironman Tri Club Program Details, 2014

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The details about the 2014 IRONMAN Triclub have been released.  Here is what the program is going to look like this year and how you can participate. In 2013, Endurance Nation won the Division One TriClub World Championship and we’d like to repeat!

Registering for the Program

All you need to do is make sure you enter your information into the EN Event Sheet for your race.  Links to that sheet can be found in your Race Group Super Duper Admin Thread that is created 12 weeks out from your event (you can also enter your upcoming races here).

Our Race Director sends the names and bib numbers of our athletes racing at each event to the IRONMAN Triclub Organizers the Monday of the race week.

IRONMAN TriClub Loyalty Program– Americas only in 2014 (NEW)

The loyalty program is a way for clubs that are limited by geography, size, experience of

their athletes to achieve podium status with IRONMAN.

Similar to the accumulation of airlines miles, clubs can redeem points at any time during the year for IRONMAN goodies.

Redeeming points does not impact their podium placement but any points they redeem are deleted from the Loyalty Program totals.

Prizes that EN will be interested in claiming with our Loyalty Points:

  • 1 early entry slot = 15,000 (NOTE: selected races – first come)

  • FREE 70.3 Entry = 150,000 pts. – not to exceed 2 per club  


IRONMAN TriClub Point System


IRONMAN Foundation:

  • 1,000 pts. per athlete who is a Foundation Athlete or a Charity Partner athlete

  • 15,000 pts. if the club uses the Foundation as a platform and raises $2,00



Volunteering:

  • 1-5 volunteers: 500 pts

  • 6-15 volunteers: 1000 pts.

  • Aid Station or +15 volunteers: 5000 pts.

  • IRONKIDS: 250 pts. per kid running/500 pts.

  • Iron Girl: 750 pts. per finisher (running or triathlon)

  • IRONMAN 5150 participation: 500 pts. per finisher -

  • Membership Validation points (Subscribe to the IRONMAN newsletter): 50 pts. per member

  • Lottery – Kona: 250 pts. per member

  • First time 70.3 or IRONMAN participant – 1000 pts.


Division Handicap:

  • Division I (Clubs with greater 500 members and National Coaching programs -- No handicap: this is EN’s division

  • Division II (Clubs with 250 – 499 active members): 1.50 x total points

  • Division III (Clubs with 100-249 active members): 1.75 x total points

  • Division IV (Clubs with 41-99 active members) : 2.00 x total points

  • Division V (Clubs under 40 active members): 2.25 x total points


Race Day Podium Winners:

Clubs compete against similarly sized clubs to become Race Day Division Champions

  • Age Group Ranking points are used to calculate total points earned at each race

  • Most IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 Races in North America will have Race Day TriClub.

  • Electronic Division Awards will be emailed to the Top 3 Clubs in each division following the race.


Annual TriClub Awards - determined solely on AGR and race performance points

The IRONMAN TriClub Program is expanding globally (America’s, Europe, Asica Pacific). Clubs from all over the world will compete to be named Regional Champions within their Division. At the end of the calendar year the club with the greatest number of accumulated Age Group Ranking Points will be named Global Champion.

Clubs based in North America will also accumulate loyalty points. In the 2014 program,

loyalty points will not be used to determine the Regional and Global annual champions.

Regional Top 5 and the Global Champion will receive trophies, champions patches and race

entries

Bonus Points by Racing Regional Championships: Athletes who race for their clubs at the following events will add bonus points to their club’s total championship point total – they also add 1.5 times for loyalty points:

Regional Championships as follows:

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Texas 4/6/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 San Juan 4/13/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Florida 4/13/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 St George 5/3/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Kansas 6/8/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Syracuse 6/22/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Muncie 7/12/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Lake Stevens 8/17/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Muskoka 9/7/2014

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Cozumel Date TBD

  • IRONMAN Brazil 5/25/2014

If an athlete races the Bonus Bundles below Pts are multiplied by 1.5: 

  • IRONMAN 70.3 Muncie and IRONMAN Louisville
  • IRONMAN 70.3 St George and IRONMAN CDA
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Boise and IRONMAN Canada
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Kansas OR Steelhead and IRONMAN Wisconsin
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside and IRONMAN Lake Tahoe
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Lake Stevens and IRONMAN Tahoe
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Texas and IRONMAN Texas
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Timberman OR IRONMAN 70.3 Syracuse and IRONMAN Lake Placid
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Mont Tremblant and IRONMAN Mont Tremblant
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Florida OR IRONMAN 70.3 Augusta and IRONMAN Florida
  • IRONMAN 70.3 Silverman and IRONMAN Arizona

Determining a Global Champion

In 2014 there will be Regional Champions in the America’s, Asia Pacific and Europe

Points to determine the champions will be based entirely on Participation points

  • Beginning April, 2014 clubs can see their Regional and Global points ranking on IRONMAN.com – participation points only

Loyalty point statements will be sent monthly to the clubs in the program.

At the end of the calendar year 75 clubs (25 from the Americas, 25 from Asia Pac and 25 from Europe) will be named Regional Podium Winners.

Clubs will be able to track participation points on IRONMAN.com 15 clubs (The top point getting club in each Division will be Regional Division World Champions)

5 clubs will be named Global World Champions - this is the championship that EN wants to win!

Regional Champions and Top 5 Division winners will receive:

  • Champions and Top 5 Electronic Patches

  • Trophies

Global Champions will receive a complimentary entry to the IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship in 2015 or a race entry to the Full Distance of their choice.

Regional Champions receive a FREE race entry for the full distance of their choice.

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Coach's Note:

Note that the above program is crazy complex, in our opinion, from a record keeping standpoint, and is solely on the shoulders of WTC. To keep it simple, all you need to do is:

  • Make sure your deets are recorded in the Race Spreadsheets here. Don't worry, we'll send you several reminders before your race to do this step.
  • Train like we tellz you.
  • Race like we teachez you.
  • Brenda will do everything else, making sure that WTC gets what they need, when, so that all our stuff is inputted into the supercomputer that WTC has leased from Google for the calculation of the results of this tri club program




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