The USAT National Challenge Competition is now over the 30 club mark for 2008-2009. Included in that list are perennial contenders the Alaska Tri Club (Wabbits, Bunnies and Hares divisions), DC Tri Club, and the Tri Club of San Diego.
This year we have some new clubs from Buffalo, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Jose (among others) so it's looking like another heated contest. Welcome aboard to all the new clubs.
Don't forget to check out the map on the Teams page - we have a real cluster of clubs in the northeast again this year, so some of you can probably just holler out the window to get your trash talk on. I'm talking to you, Elmhurst TC and Chicago Athletics TC. And you too, Midwest Xtreme and U of Iowa!
Individual signups are also coming in, for all of you (us) poor souls not part of a tri club. Ah the lonely life of the triathlete.
Just a few more days to go now until the swim session starts!
November 22, 2008
November 5, 2008
NCC Login is Open - Add Your Athletes Now!
Although the competition does not get under way until December 1, club reps can login and start adding athletes to their rosters now.
Results cannot yet be added, of course, but adding athletes in advance will save club reps some time.
Don't forget, this year all participating athletes must be USAT members in good standing, so have those membership numbers ready when you are adding athletes to your roster.
Also, a reminder that each team has a 75 athlete limit. For many clubs this won't matter but if you are a member of the Super Huge Mega Triathlon Club you may have to field more than one team. If you think you will have more than 75 athletes this year, please contact USAT so we can create additional teams for you. Email them at clubs at usatriathlon dot org.
Results cannot yet be added, of course, but adding athletes in advance will save club reps some time.
Don't forget, this year all participating athletes must be USAT members in good standing, so have those membership numbers ready when you are adding athletes to your roster.
Also, a reminder that each team has a 75 athlete limit. For many clubs this won't matter but if you are a member of the Super Huge Mega Triathlon Club you may have to field more than one team. If you think you will have more than 75 athletes this year, please contact USAT so we can create additional teams for you. Email them at clubs at usatriathlon dot org.
November 1, 2008
USAT National Challenge Competition Registration Now Open
The 2008-2009 edition of USA Triathlon's National Challenge Competition is officially underway. Registration is now open (as of November 1) for clubs who want to take part in this year's event.
Last year saw over 2,000 athletes chalk up more than 1 million miles (yes) over the 3 months of the NCC, and this year we are expecting even higher numbers. Traffic on the NCC website has been high in October, an indicator that interest in the competition is also high.
To register your club - it must be an officially recognized USA Triathlon club - go to www.race-tracker.net/USAT and follow the Register link. There is no charge to enter the competition.
Individual athletes may also compete, as long as they are also members in good standing of USAT.
The competition begins on December 1 and runs to the end of February. Could there be a better way to get through winter than this?
Let's rock!
Last year saw over 2,000 athletes chalk up more than 1 million miles (yes) over the 3 months of the NCC, and this year we are expecting even higher numbers. Traffic on the NCC website has been high in October, an indicator that interest in the competition is also high.
To register your club - it must be an officially recognized USA Triathlon club - go to www.race-tracker.net/USAT and follow the Register link. There is no charge to enter the competition.
Individual athletes may also compete, as long as they are also members in good standing of USAT.
The competition begins on December 1 and runs to the end of February. Could there be a better way to get through winter than this?
Let's rock!
July 20, 2008
Updates for June & July
1. Brick Fix. At least one Racetracker-er noticed a small bug in the training calendar - brick workouts (more than one workout on the same day) showed only the distance of the first workout entered, not the correct total distance. This is in the monthly bar chart display only, not in the detailed breakdown of each workout. That has now been fixed.
2. Calendar Upgrade. Calendar users now have a way to toggle through all workout types for each month. Want to see only your killer swim workouts? Click 'Swim' in the legend at the top of the calendar. Just want to compare your epic bike rides? Click 'Bike'. This helps particularly if you do a lot of bricks and want to isolate your sessions by workout type.
If you are wondering what this calendar thing is all about, all you have to do is sign up with your local tri or running club. The calendar is available only to registered club members.
2. Calendar Upgrade. Calendar users now have a way to toggle through all workout types for each month. Want to see only your killer swim workouts? Click 'Swim' in the legend at the top of the calendar. Just want to compare your epic bike rides? Click 'Bike'. This helps particularly if you do a lot of bricks and want to isolate your sessions by workout type.
If you are wondering what this calendar thing is all about, all you have to do is sign up with your local tri or running club. The calendar is available only to registered club members.
March 24, 2008
New Stuff for March
Comparing triathlon results just got easier. In the My Results / View / Compare Races section, all charts and tables are now viewable using a new 'tab' feature. This makes it much easier to toggle between swim/bike/run and percentile/pace/pf results. No more scrolling down the page to see all the charts.
Layout issues with some parts of the site have been fixed, but if you do see something that looks off please send an email so we can get it fixed. These are all issues related to MS Internet Explorer, mostly version 7.
RaceTracker still recommends using any of the following browsers if you can: For Mac, Safari, Firefox, Camino. For PC, Firefox. IE6 and IE7 do work, but the site looks best in those other browsers.
Layout issues with some parts of the site have been fixed, but if you do see something that looks off please send an email so we can get it fixed. These are all issues related to MS Internet Explorer, mostly version 7.
RaceTracker still recommends using any of the following browsers if you can: For Mac, Safari, Firefox, Camino. For PC, Firefox. IE6 and IE7 do work, but the site looks best in those other browsers.
March 3, 2008
One Million Miles!
The USA Triathlon National Challenge Competition has just wrapped for another year, and this year the numbers are a ginormous improvement over last year. Granted last year was the inaugural year, but still.
The combined mileage for everyone in the competition, including athletes not affiliated with a local club?
1,012,163 Miles!
I think a 'holy cow' is in order here. 77 clubs (though some clubs did split into more than one team this year since the max number of athletes was set at 75) and 2,343 athletes took part this time around.
Your humble narrator even took part in the festivities this year, although only for the swim session (December) since he went and broke his leg in early January in a non-triathlon related activity. Next year I'll be right back into it, I promise.
Congratulations to everyone who took part, and of course especially to all RaceTrackers who racked up the big miles!
The combined mileage for everyone in the competition, including athletes not affiliated with a local club?
1,012,163 Miles!
I think a 'holy cow' is in order here. 77 clubs (though some clubs did split into more than one team this year since the max number of athletes was set at 75) and 2,343 athletes took part this time around.
Your humble narrator even took part in the festivities this year, although only for the swim session (December) since he went and broke his leg in early January in a non-triathlon related activity. Next year I'll be right back into it, I promise.
Congratulations to everyone who took part, and of course especially to all RaceTrackers who racked up the big miles!
February 26, 2008
Browser Grief
This post may be more for web nerds than tri geeks, but whatever.
A friend just pointed out to me that the USAT National Challenge Competition site does not render the left menu properly in Internet Explorer 7. Hear that sound? That's the sound of me hitting my head against my desk.
I do all my work on a Mac these days, having given up on PC a couple of years ago. The sites (Racetracker and USAT) are both tested on different browsers: Firefox and IE6 for PC, Safari and Firefox for Mac, but not IE7 for PC. I just don't have that version of IE. Unfortunately millions of other people do! Argh.
It's a bit late now that the National Challenge Competition is just days from ending, but I'm going to try to round up a copy of IE7 for testing purposes and get that menu fixed.
Apologies to all.
In the meantime, if you're a PC, please try to use Firefox. If you're a Mac, Safari (or Camino) looks smashing.
A friend just pointed out to me that the USAT National Challenge Competition site does not render the left menu properly in Internet Explorer 7. Hear that sound? That's the sound of me hitting my head against my desk.
I do all my work on a Mac these days, having given up on PC a couple of years ago. The sites (Racetracker and USAT) are both tested on different browsers: Firefox and IE6 for PC, Safari and Firefox for Mac, but not IE7 for PC. I just don't have that version of IE. Unfortunately millions of other people do! Argh.
It's a bit late now that the National Challenge Competition is just days from ending, but I'm going to try to round up a copy of IE7 for testing purposes and get that menu fixed.
Apologies to all.
In the meantime, if you're a PC, please try to use Firefox. If you're a Mac, Safari (or Camino) looks smashing.
February 11, 2008
New Stuff for Runners
With all the focus lately on the USA Triathlon National Challenge Competition, it's been easy to forget about all those runners out there still putting in the miles and still racing throughout the winter. My apologies to all. Blame the triathletes and their infernal competition.
But I haven't really forgotten, no I haven't. To prove it, some New Stuff has just been added to the Running Races section of Racetracker.
When viewing your Single Race results under Running you will now see some additional Race Pace data. The World Record times and paces for 5k, 10k, half-marathon and marathon distances are now shown in greater detail.
See meters per second (which was always there) plus kilometers per hour and time per kilometer. There is also now the most up-to-date info on who holds the World Record for each of those distances, plus when and where the record was set. This info also links directly to the relevant Wikipedia page for each distance. You'll see the appropriate record for your gender only.
For those who race in miles, not kilometers... help is on the way. Since international records are kept mainly in metric distances, those were completed first. Conversions to ye olde Englishe units are on the Big To Do List.
But I haven't really forgotten, no I haven't. To prove it, some New Stuff has just been added to the Running Races section of Racetracker.
When viewing your Single Race results under Running you will now see some additional Race Pace data. The World Record times and paces for 5k, 10k, half-marathon and marathon distances are now shown in greater detail.
See meters per second (which was always there) plus kilometers per hour and time per kilometer. There is also now the most up-to-date info on who holds the World Record for each of those distances, plus when and where the record was set. This info also links directly to the relevant Wikipedia page for each distance. You'll see the appropriate record for your gender only.
For those who race in miles, not kilometers... help is on the way. Since international records are kept mainly in metric distances, those were completed first. Conversions to ye olde Englishe units are on the Big To Do List.
February 8, 2008
USAT Update: To the Moon and Back
I've just added a Total Mileage counter to the NCC site. I thought everyone would like to know just how many total miles everyone in the competition had put in so far. Much to my amazement, and probably yours, we are over 700,000 miles! Thats enough mileage to get to the moon and back and most of the way there again.
Are triathletes a bit nuts, or what?
Are triathletes a bit nuts, or what?
February 4, 2008
USAT Update: Superhuman Workouts!
The Run Session has begun, and already it seems that some clubs have unleashed their awesomest triathletes for the home stretch. Run 200 miles in 2 days? No problem. Bike 300+ in the same 2 days? Hardly broke a sweat.
Actually these were entry errors, and the offending parties have been notified. They have graciously agreed to remove these miles, as they were intended for January. And of course it's too late now since the cutoff was Saturday February 2 at 6pm (local time).
Everyone settle down.
Actually these were entry errors, and the offending parties have been notified. They have graciously agreed to remove these miles, as they were intended for January. And of course it's too late now since the cutoff was Saturday February 2 at 6pm (local time).
Everyone settle down.
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