The 25th Annual Dillon Biathlon:

 Information on the 2010 Biathlon will be available in late May or early June. This is an informal row/bike/row that occurs on and around Lake Dillon in Frisco, Colorado.   The rowing course can vary from year to year, the bike course around the lake stays pretty much the same. The information below details the 2009 race.

 
 
The course this year is planned to start at the Frisco Marina on the water at 7am.  The format is Row/Bike/Row.
 
Leg 1 - (Est 3-3.5 miles) Row starts at the Frisco Marina, on the water. The row will go from the Frisco Marina out about 1.5 miles with a starboard turn around Crown Point and then a straight 2 mile shot to the Blue River
Inlet (Towards Breckenrige).  Here you will put your boat in slings and transition to the bike.
 
Leg 2 - (18 miles) The bike will head out to Hwy 9 and proceed clockwise around Lake Dillon.  Hwy 9 to Frisco, through Frisco to the dam road, after the dam road down the hill turn right onto Hwy 6 around to Swan Mtn Rd, once down from Swan Mt Rd you are at the row transition.
 
Leg 3 - (Est 3-3.5 miles) Off the bike and back into the boat back to the Frisco Marina.
 
Logistics;
The row/bike transition at the Blue River Inlet, the road is just off Hwy 9 to Breck at the light by Swan Mtn Rd by the sewage plant, there is a long gravel road going out into the reservoir , you will need to have slings for
your boat and your bike there by 6am to get back the Frisco Marina for a 7am start.  I would lock your bike along side your slings.  We may or may not have someone there to watch them, any volunteers??

*We need to start by 7am to avoid the winds that come up around 9;30-10am.  Launch at the Frisco Marina, the Frisco Bay Rowing people do not want us using their docks so we will be beach launching.
 
Comments;
 
This is not so much a race as it is an event/workout/accomplishment.
Safety is the key issue, the water is deep, cold and big, do not row a single if you are not proficient.  The bike is all on the roads and the onlybike path is across the dam road, obey all traffic laws, no drafting.  The course is easier than the directions sound.
 
I have booked a room at the Snowshoe Motel for $79, very simple place and it is there in Frisco (800) 445-8658
 
Any questions, please email me.  Day of, I plan on being up there in the afternoon with cell phone on.
 
Thanks, Mike Gasper