Free Newton Running Shoes and more

The first 200 athletes this year will receive free Newton Running race shoes. 24 Hour athletes will receive these beginning in May and 8 hour athletes can pick them up at registration. This is a $155 value, equal to or exceeding the race entry for most people.

We have not quite reached the 200 mark on entrants so there is still time to take advantage of this opportunity. All entrants can buy a pair of Newton Shoes at pro-deal and will receive the information on how to do this in their registration confirmation packet.

Competitors also receive a tech running shirt and race hat (value $64) plus many other goodies from our sponsors. The minimum value of the goodie bag alone is $100, and a great deal more form the first two hundred entrants.

2008 Race Course

This year we are modifying the race course to be 1/10 th Iron distance: 0.24 mile swim - 11.2 mile bike - 2.6 mile run. This means (obviously) that you can gauge your total distance in terms of IronMan races.

Last year Joe McDaniels covered almost 1.9 full Iron distances at 266.7 miles. Team GoFast covered 2.3 Iron's with 330.2 miles. Joe is defending his title and with some stiff competition this year I expect the 2x Iron distance to fall to the record books in the solo category.

We area also adding more value to maintain our reputation as having the world's best goodie bag. In addition to free Newton Running shoes ($155 value) for the first 200 competitors, we are giving away tech running tops and tech hats for all entrants, an additional $60 value. For a race entry fee starting at $100, that's pretty good.

Apart from the value in giveaways, there are some other exciting additions to this years race which I will be announcing shortly.