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Bike Drop-off is Saturday 5/15 at Bartlett from 3:30 - 8:30. The GNT is providing security overnight at Bartlett so your bike will be safe and sound.
The bike corral closes at 8 am Sunday morning, so if you aren't planning on showing up to Bartlett before 8 am, you need to leave your bike the way you want to find it during your race.
We recommend bringing a 5-gallon bucket to store your things under overnight next to your bike, and to use as a seat while getting ready for your bike leg.
Next Years Gold Nugget will be
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Congratulations to all who participated in the 2010 Gold Nugget Women's Triathlon!!
This year's event was a great success! While the weather may not always have been obliging, that didn't seem to keep people from having a great time out there with friends and family! We are very thankful to have had another fun and safe event this year, and we wish to thank every single volunteer who helped us put on yet another outstanding triathlon event for the 28th year in a row. We wish to thank Elmendorf Airforce Base for the use of their land and their assistance with our bike course this year. We wish to thank all of our participants for joining us, having fun, and giving it your all! You continue to inspire us year after year!
We would like to encourage you to come to the Awards Banquet at 5:30 Monday night 5/17/10 in the UAA Student Union. This is a potluck event, and the food is always superb! This is a great opportunity to watch our brand new Gold Nugget Triathlon movie, created for us by cycling and photography enthusiast George Stransky, and to celebrate your achievement and the achievements of your fellow participants. There are also some fantastic door prizes that both participants and volunteers have an opportunity to win, but you must be present! Grand prizes include a bike from Chain Reaction Cycles, a one-year tennis family membership to The Alaska Club, and a huge Multisport Training of Alaska gift certificate to meet all your triathlon training needs for the upcoming year.
Results will not be posted on this site until at least 8 pm Monday night 5/17/10. We encourage you to come to the banquet to have the opportunity to view them before then. Lost-n-Found items will also be brought to the banquet, as will leftover Finisher shirts (if you would prefer a different size than the one you requested at registration) and GNT merchandise for sale. This is the last opportunity of this year to purchase GNT merchandise. We hope to see you there!
Click the Course link above for course maps and information
Registration for the 2010 Women’s Gold Nugget Triathlon is FULL and CLOSED. We are humbled and amazed at the demand that our event has generated over all these years, and we desperately wish that we could accommodate every single woman and girl who wants to do our race!
We took every precaution we could this year to make sure that we were on a dedicated server large enough to handle the anticipated traffic. If you encountered pages that wouldn’t load quickly or appeared to be frozen, that was because so many of you were trying to register at once. We have enlarged the cap from 1400 in 2009 to 1500 in 2010, but this is truly the maximum number of participants that this event can handle while remaining a safe and fun experience for all.
As your Board of Directors of the Gold Nugget Triathlon, we are open to ideas and suggestions as to how we might able to enlarge our event to accommodate more women. We have been considering adding a “duathlon” event to our triathlon as a way to open it up to more people. We have heard many suggestions over the years as far as ways to streamline the registration process, which include giving preference to participants who have done the race every year for a long time. We love the fact that so many mothers, daughters, and friends have made our race a tradition for so many years! However, the mission of the Alaska Women’s Gold Nugget Triathlon is to “improve the lives of women and girls through athletics.” So we welcome and encourage newcomers too! Every year hundreds of women who are eager to discover the sport of triathlon use our event as their jumping-off point. This year we registered 537 women who are doing the Gold Nugget Triathlon for their first time ever! While we are sorry to see anyone’s consecutive streak come to a temporary end, we feel very strongly that every single participant have the same shot as any other at getting in. If you did not get an entry spot, we would love to have you stay involved this year by volunteering and cheering on our triathlon “newbies.” The GNT magic really is enhanced by our many wonderfully supportive volunteers.
In addition, we encourage you to register of some of Alaska’s other great women-only events.
Gold Nugget Triathlon Merchandise
We will be selling some Gold Nugget merchandise on Saturday at bike-drop off, Sunday at Bartlett, and Monday night at the banquet. (Not to be confused with your free Finisher T-shirt that you will receive after the race at Bartlett). We have performance-fabric long-sleeved shirts in several different colors, performance hats, bags, and cotton "Lil' Nugget" shirts for infants and small children of enthusiastic triathletes in red and yellow. We accept cash, checks and credit cards (Visa, Mastercard and Discovery but not American Express)
Awards Banquet
We encourage all participants to join us at a celebratory banquet that takes place Monday evening 5/17 at 5:30 pm in the UAA Student Union. It is a potluck event, and the food is always fantastic! We honor top-10 overall finishers and top-5 finishers in each age group, but also teams, most-improved, and long-time GNT participants. We have a ton of fanstastic door prizes and both participants and volunteers are entered to win. We will be raffling off some grand prizes including a bike from Chain Reaction Cycles, a one-year family tennis membership to the Alaska Club, and a Multisport of Alaska training gift certificate, and lots of other great prizes from local businesses such as Skinny Raven, Kaladi Brothers, This year we will be debuting the first-ever GNT movie, so be sure to come on time so you don't miss that! Come celebrate your achievement with us on Monday night!
The Alaska Women’s Gold Nugget Triathlon has taken place on the third Sunday of May every year for the last 27 years. The race began as a Girls Club event to encourage fitness and sports participation for girls. The youngest participant the first year was 6 and the oldest was 60. The race began at Dimond High School, but moved to Bartlett High School in 1988. This year’s event is scheduled for May 16, 2010 at Bartlett High School. Our event is the largest triathlon in the state, and it is also the oldest women’s triathlon in the country. Over our 27 years, the race has grown from 166 participants in its first year to 1,417 registered entrants for the 2009 race. Registration for our event has filled up and closed within 24 hours at a cap of 1400 participants for the last two years. This year we will be registering 1500 participants, and do anticipate again filling up in less than 24 hours!!
The Alaska Women’s Gold Nugget Triathlon means many things to many people. Each year we have over 500 women and girls sign up for our race who have never done the GNT before. We also have many hundreds of participants who wouldn’t miss it for the world, year after year. Our event has touched thousands of women’s lives in this state over the 27 years that we have been staging it. Many women use our event to make enormous changes in their life and health; some of our participants have even lost 80-100 lbs. training for our event. For others it is an opportunity to complete and event with their mother, daughter, friends or colleagues. For others still it is the prime venue to compete against other top female triathletes in the state.
Whatever your reasons for doing the Gold Nugget, or wanting to sign up, we thank you for your support and your participation! We invite you to check out our photos and stories from participants, learn some tips on how to improve your race, and find all the information you’ll need to both sign up for the event and to participate in it.
Photographs of the race can be ordered from Action Sports International. If you would like to be notified when you pictures are ready, simply provide them with your name, email address, and bib number.
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