Guaranteed Ironman Slot Lottery: Ironman Chattanooga 2015
As you may know, Endurance Nation was award 50 guaranteed entries to Ironman events, as being crowned WTC Tri Club Program World Champions for 2013.
Please go here to read more about this.
Our guaranteed slot lottery for Ironman Lake Placid was very successful. Nearly 50 EN athletes put their hats in the ring for a chance to claim one of 17 guaranteed slots that we had allocated to IMLP.
The intent of this post is to give you a heads up that our guaranteed slot lottery for Ironman Chattanooga up next. We have allocated 16 guaranteed slots to IM Chattanooga 2015. TeamEN will have nearly 60 athletes racing the event this year and IMChatt is one of our Key Races for 2015. Please go here to read more about the Key Race Program for 2015.
How the IMChatt Lottery will Work / Dates to Remember
- Next Monday, August 18th, we'll send a special announcement out to the Team, with instructions for how to submit your name for a chance to win of one 16 guaranteed slots to Ironman Chattanooga 2015. That email will also be posted to this thread.
- You'll have until CoB, Friday, August 22nd to submit your information. We'll send everyone a couple reminders, as well as posting a reminder in the Dashboard.
- Winners will be chosen and announced early the following week.
- Your information will be forwarded to Ironman and they will be in touch with further instructions.
Again, please go here to learn more about the lottery process, etc.
Comments
Team,
Per the Ironman Chattanooga Guaranteed Slot Allocation Program that we announced last week above, registration for this opportunity is now open
Go here to enter a chance to win one of 16 guaranteed Ironman Chattanooga Registration Slots
Registration, and the link to this form, will be turned off at 9pm on Friday, August 22nd
Notes:
What is "guaranteed?"
If you win, we give your deets to WTC and they contact you with double top secret, back door, skip the registration craziness instructions. The slot is not free!!
Racing Ironman Chattanooga this year and thinking of racing it again next year?
Please do not submit your name to this lottery process. Remember that you’ll have an opportunity to register via the registered participants onsite opportunity on Saturday.
Already have firm plans to go to the race, volunteer or spectate, and claim a slot on Monday via onsite registration?
Thanks for volunteering and cheering on your Endurance Nation teammates! However, please don’t submit your name to this lottery process. In our more than significant experience with Ironman race weekends, if you are in “a” line Monday morning, WTC WILL take your money and you WILL be registered for 2015!
Kinda sorta interested in racing IMChatt so, what the hell, I’ll enter my deets and see what happens?
Please understand that if you win a registration opportunity, and don’t take advantage of it, that guaranteed registration is lost to the team! So if you win and decide to not claim your slot, email us at support@endurancenation.zendesk.com right away so we can give your slot to someone else.
Thanks and we’ll be back again in a few days with a friendly, last call reminder!
And the winners are....
Brenda will be submitting your names and email addys to WTC, and they will be touch shortly with registration instructions.
Remember: if you are unable to take advantage of this early reg opportunity, let us know ASAP so we can give your slot to someone else.
Thanks and I'll see you all next year in Chattanooga!
http://members.endurancenation.us/Forums/tabid/57/aft/16537/Default.aspx
Please keep this thread focused on the lottery. Thanks.
And the winners are announced! See the 3rd post in this thread!
Coach Rich - In the event that someone does not take up the spot (suppose unlikely), but if so....do you keep the names of those who entered and pick the next person down on the list? Just wondering as I am interested...but didn't get a spot. ;-)
Thanks.
See the third post, names of winners listed there.
Yes, I used the same list, but there is no "next on the list."
The number you put into the hat, so to speak, is the number of the row on the spreadsheet that's generate as people submit their names and are added to the spreadsheet.
I draw those numbers out of the hat, so to speak, by clicking "Get Number" on this page: http://www.randomnumbergenerator.com/, until I've got 16 names.
So if someone doesn't claim their spot, I'll do this virtual number out of a hat thing again.
Will need some special tips from the peeps and coaches on training the least amount of long stuff in the right amount of time leading up to the race as the body will only handle so much hard stuff with all the treatments I've been through. Short stuff this year has been fine but as I increased the distance and time I had to watch not over doing the body. Not to worry about that for now though.
Drillbit is back!!!
YES!!!!!!! Happy Dance!!!
And Trent it is great to see you give it another go.
The guaranteed slot program is pulling in alums like Trent and Matt Samojeden who have added so much to EN. It's awesome!
The OS next winter is going to be fun
Guess my vacation didn't allow me to enter the lottery. I might have to chance it and take an online registration for 2015. Maybe...hmmm...
I looked back at the IMLP guaranteed entry thread at http://members.endurancenation.us/Forums/tabid/57/aft/15817/afpg/2/Default.aspx and early entry for them was the week of July 21st leading up to the race. I would bet that we'll get the email for entry around September 22nd leading up to this year's Choo.