Event Description

The 12th Annual Race Montana Triathlon is scheduled for Sunday, August 5, 2018 at the Electric City Water Park in Great Falls, Montana.

This year the Race Montana Triathlon will once again host an Olympic Distance event that will start at 7:00 am.  The event will have a non-traditional swim of 500 meters in the Electric City Water Park 50 meter pool.  The Bike portion will be 24.4 miles with the first and last 5 miles being relatively flat.  The middle 14.4 miles involve a variety of short flats with plenty of eleveation gains and downhills.  The run will be a fast and flat 6.2 miles.  If you do not want to compete in all three events, get some friends together and compete as a team.  The Adult Team Olymplc participants will be starting their race with the Adult Individual Olympic racers.

The Adult Sprint Triathlon will start once the Olympic distance athletes have completed their swim.  The Adult Individual and Team Sprint Triathlon will inclued a 500 meter swim, a 12.2 mile bike and a 3.1 mile run. Once again if you do not want to compete in all three events, that’s no problem. Find 1 or 2 other individuals and compete as a team.  The Adult Sprint Team Triathlon will start along side the Adult Sprint Individual racers.

Beginning at 9:00 a.m there will be two youth divisions - making it a great event for the entire family,. The Youth Triathlon Long course includes a 100 meter swim (2 pool lengths), a 3 mile bike; and a 1 mile run. The Youth Triathlon Short course will start at approximately 9:30 am and will include a 50 meter swim (1 pool length), a 1 mile bike; and a ½ mile run.

All race participants will be able to enter the ELECTRIC CITY WATER PARK FOR FREE from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm on race day.  Racers family members can enter the water park at the regular rate of admission.

Please see the Registration page for information on fees.

The race will be professionally timed by Competitive Timing (Whitefish, Montana – http://competitivetiming.com/).