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Suttree's landing park
Come TRI out the southside!
Are you ready to TRI KNOX again?
As our South Knoxville community is growing PBR wants to celebrate the addition of Suttree's Landing on the south side as becoming a staple in the riverscape! Come TRI with PBR and Quest Health and Performance as we traverse through the South Knoxville beauty for a sprint, olympic, or half-iron distance triathlon, or a 5K, 10K, or half marathon run. Something for everyone!
Sprint: 1000M Swim - 14 Mi Bike - 5k Run
Olympic: 1600M Swim - 25 Mi Bike - 10k Run
Half: 2200M Swim - 58 Mi Bike - 13.1 Mi Run
Like our Facebook page for the latest info on the race happening on August 7th!
2021 Results
Be a part of the fun!
There is no cost to be a part of the vendor expo, you must simply offer a benefit to the athletes participating. email us for details or to reserve your spot!
Pre Race Information
Packet Pickup Information:
Thursday, August 5th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Alliance Brewing - 1130 Sevier Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920
Friday, August 6th, 5:30pm-7:30pm - Suttree's Landing Park - 1001 Waterfront Dr SE, Knoxville
Saturday, August 7th - 5:30am-6:30am, Suttree's Landing Park - 1001 Waterfront Dr SE, Knoxville
Friday Night Early Bike Check in (Optional) - 5:30pm-7:30pm
Bike racks will be assigned
Bib Number assignments:
Race day Information
Saturday, August 7th - Suttree's Landing Park - 1001 Waterfront Dr SE, Knoxville, TN 37920
General Race Timeline
5:30am - Transition Opens
5:30am-6:30am Race Day Packet Pickup
6:45am - Transition Closes (all divisions)
7:00am - Half and Sprint Races begin
7:15am - Olympic Race begins
8:00am - 5k/10k/13.1 Runs begin at start/finish line
8am-12pm - vendor expo at finishline/transition area
7:45am - Finish-line opens
Parking
There will be no on-site parking. We are currently working on the shuttle situation with City of Knoxville; however, parking garage is a half mile from venue at Riverwalk Garage:
2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN 37920 - See below for map
Shuttle to Start lines:
We will have a shuttle available for 3 time slots to shuttle your athletic booties to the start lines. The shuttle will pick you up at the corner of Foggy Bottom and Phillips Ave - See pics below
Shuttle Pick UP times:
6:15am
6:30am
6:45am
And after that you're on your own!
Wave Start:
Half:
7am - Men (Age Group, Clydesdales, Aquabike, Relay)
7:03am - Women (Age Group, Athena, Aquabike, Mixed and Female Relays)
Olympic:
7:15am - Men (Age Group, Clydesdales, Aquabike, Relay)
7:18am - Women (Age Group, Athena, Aquabike, Mixed and Female Relays)
Sprint:
7am - Men (Age Group, Clydesdales, Aquabike, Relay)
7:03am - Women (Age Group, Athena, Aquabike, Mixed and Female Relays)
Now about that SWIM:
For the swim you will need your PBR Issued Swim cap that comes in your bag. This is REQUIRED to wear during the swim portion. This will help us determine what race you're in, and that you're out there swimming!
The river is historically a little cooler, and we are expecting a few days of rain this week, so expect wetsuit legal, but the actual call is made on race morning by our USA Triathlon Officials.
Let's talk about that Big, Beautiful Bike Course:
For the bike you will need a helmet. Duh. New USA Triathlon ruling is that the helmet will need to be on your head and fastened at all times you are touching your bike during the race. Before and after the race, if you choose to ride your bike to transition or to get a warmup in, you MUST be wearing your helmet.
The courses will be marked with Yellow Chalk on the road, PBR SIgns, volunteers, and I'm also listing them for you above. Please know the bike course before hand. We have about 20 of East Tennessee's finest police officers and hopefully that many volunteers as well, but it is still YOUR Responsibility to know this course. We had to change it up a bit due to road changes, but its great....awesome...amazing....challenging....but fun!
The run is last for a reason:
The Will Skelton greenway offers shade, beautiful views, a tour of the dirty south and Ijams Nature Center, and a glimpse at the sunflower patch on the half course. This race is completely on the greenway with the exception of the first and last mile. The greenway will be marked with signs, and orange chalk.
Pictures
Packet Pickup Information:
Parking: 2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN
Packet Pickup Information:
half mile to sprint start/mile to oly and half start.
Race Day Event Schedule
Parking: 2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN
Packet Pickup Information:
Parking: 2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN
Parking: 2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN
Parking: 2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN
This is the best option for parking with only a half mile walk to the venue
Transition Flow
Transition Flow
Parking: 2011 Kay St SE, Knoxville, TN
This is the flow for transition. The Swim in and run out will be on the East side of transition and the Bike out and Bike In will be on the West side of transition
Swim Start Map
Transition Flow
Swim Start Map
half mile to sprint start/mile to oly and half start.
Shuttle Pickup
Transition Flow
Swim Start Map
Pick up times: 6:15am - 6:30am - 6:45am
After that you're on your own!
Scan Here for results
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This will take you to the preliminary results so you know RIGHT AWAY! Gotta Love technology!
Special Thanks to Visit Knoxville Sports!
Special Thanks to Visit Knoxville Sports!
Special Thanks to Visit Knoxville Sports!
Check out our all you need to know about Knoxville page provided by Visit Knoxville
A little about our title sponsor
Special Thanks to Visit Knoxville Sports!
Special Thanks to Visit Knoxville Sports!
Quest is a staple in the endurance community and we are happy to partner with them for this premier Knoxville event!
Post Race Email!
Wow what a weekend!
Thank you for joining us on our inaugural event. We did have this last year, but 2020 doesn't actually count right? Here are some stats on the race:
Total Registered for all races - 223 (up 123 from 2020)
Sprint-75
Olympic - 84
Half - 41
Running Events - 23
Volunteers - 51-ish
Ladies - 86
Dudes - 137
Total Finishers - 187
% from outside Knoxville - 43
# of pictures taken - over 5,000, 2,000 published on Facebook
Leading in to our next subject, the Pictures! Special thanks to Chris Gerard for taking our official race pictures and TimZanation for taking our unofficial race pics! These can all be found on Facebook in our albums. There are so many pics from our event, that keeping them in any other platform online will cost quite a bit of money forcing us to raise fees. So we decided facebook was a good online storage album and this also puts them in one place. They are free to you, and you have permission to download and share!
Follow the links here:
Chris G. Misc https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=personalbestmanagement&set=a.1252100158560912
Chris G. Swim https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=personalbestmanagement&set=a.1252125905225004
Chris G. Bike https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=personalbestmanagement&set=a.1252144925223102
Chris G Run https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=personalbestmanagement&set=a.1252843288486599
Timzanation ALL https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=personalbestmanagement&set=a.1253363315101263
From the RD:
This was our first ever half, and we had 28 finishers. WE are super proud of this, but also was able to learn certain things and apply them to next year. I want to personally apologize for the water situation on the bike and run course. The bike course water stop was asked to go to mile 10 of the half course, but unfortunately ended up at mile 10 of the olympic and mile 40 of the half. Also, we kept running out of water faster than we could fill it on the run course. This was mainly due to the openness of the course and a hot day. Many passerbys grabbed water and that distorted our calculations on when we would run out. This has been discussed by the run course coordinator and myself and we have solutions in place for next year!
Results
Our timers have finalized our results and I have sent them to USAT. I hope you noticed the refs on duty and that they were enforcing the rules even more so than I usually do. We appreciate your following of the rules. We take your safety pretty freakin seriously, and we can't save you from yourselves if you don't follow the rules! So thank you for doing so! The PDF is located on the results tab, you can get there by following this link:
If you need to pick up your award or medal, please email personalbestracing@gmail.com to arrange pickup. We are at Alliance Brewing Company each wednesday for our PBR Group Run starting at 6pm. Feel free to join us and get a drink special as well! #activebeerculture
Our sponsors ROCK
I hope you were able to stop by our title sponsors tent and visit with Quest Health and Performance owner and DPT, Jeanne Williams. She has led some course previews and has been a staple at many of our events! Just look for the purple!
We also hope you got to take advantage of the Post Race Expo. We will definitely bring it back next year, and possibly adjust the hours so that the halfers can take more advantage of it!
Special thanks to Mandi Walker for her efforts this year leading the way! We had vendors such as the YMCA, Emily's Sweet Treats, Massage by Kerri, Knoxville Spine and SPort, Qavah Designs, Kerns Bakery, The Long Run, Sadie's BBQ, Physio Lab PT, and special appearances by Patdome Promotions at the Half Turnaround (volunteering) and on the 10k Run course (running).
Also big shout Alliance Brewing Company for opening early to get a few drinky drinks in after your race! (look for them onsight next year)
The medals you got at the finish line were hand made by Patdome Promotions, and turned out beautifully. They also did the shirts and awards!
Our volunteers ROCK TOO!
With well over 50 volunteers coming out to stand in the elements for several hours, we can't begin to thank them enough for coming out to help protect you on your race day. We had three volunteer groups that came out to help raise money for their organization:
Village2Village
Bearden HS JrROTC
Central HS Track and Field
PBR is giving a donation to each of these organizations!
To maybe make a dent in how much we love our volunteers who just came out to support you and the community, we got some cool sponsor schwag to give them in a drawing, sponsored by THE LONG RUN:
BOCO BACK PACK - Amy Bollinger
Sunglasses - Lorraine Thompson
Sunglasses - Lynne Blanco
Long Run Gift Card $25 - Michael Boling
Long Run Boco Hat - David King
Kona Boco Hat/Beach Bag Combo - Sharon Peterson
PBR Pool Sprint Race entry - Kim Womack
Please email personalbestracing@gmail.com to pick up your prize!
Save the Date! August 13th, 2022
Next year we come back with a bigger field, more surprises and more of what Knoxville has to offer to you! Registration will open soon!
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