in association with COBH JAILBREAK TRIATHLON Saturday August 8 th 05
Important points to note All competitors must register in person. If you are a member of Triathlon Ireland (TI) you must bring your 05 TI card (it's GREEN). If you are not a member of Triathlon Ireland, a one-day licence (ODL) must be purchased on the Triathlon Ireland website before 5pm Thursday August 6 th 05. Please print out receipt as proof of purchase and bring this to registration. For relay team, one member of the team must be a member of TI or an ODl must be purchased for the team. It is advisable that team members register together on Friday night or Saturday morning. There will be limited parking along the waterfront by the Heritage Centre on Saturday. Please note, that once in this car park, you can not move out until all competitors have finished the race. See CAR PARKING at the end of this document for further details. Timetable Friday August 7th 900-30 Registration, The Commodore Hotel, Cobh, Co. Cork Saturday August 8th 0730-0930 Race registration, (Olympic) The Commodore Hotel, Cobh 0730 030 Race registration, (Sprint Only) The Commodore Hotel, Cobh 0800 Transition Opens 030 Race Briefing at Transition Area you must attend. Olympic Distance: 0hrs start time -Tide conditions dependent 040 Boat leaves for Spike Island at 040 SHARP! Miss the boat miss the swim. 00 Swim Briefing on beach on Spike Island 7 Athletes may enter water briefly to acclimatize!! 0 One wave which starts from beach. Sprint Distance: 5 hrs start time 5 Swim briefing at swim start a 5-8 minute walk from transition Athletes may enter water briefly to acclimatize!! 5 START PRIZE GIVING 530 (3PM) 530 Presentation of prizes, Commodaore Hotel. Finger food and Spot prizes. Please be responsible. Please do not litter the bike and run routes with gels/bar wrappers, bottles etc. The people of Cobh and particularly residents and businesses in these areas have been gracious in their support for Cobh Triathlon Club and the Jailbreak event. We do not wish to repay their courtesy by littering their roads and jeopardize the holding of future events. Please take your litter home or place it in the refuse bags available in the transition area.
Transition Area. Only competitors are allowed into Transition Area and NO BAGS OR BOXES may be left in transition. If they are they will be removed and we cannot guarantee their safe return. A secure bag drop area will be provided. Please note transition closes at 500 (3PM). Please make sure to have everything removed by this time. General The use of personal music systems, cycling/running topless/nudity in transition, dangerous riding, or breaking the rules of the road will disqualify. TO GET TO COBH FROM CORK (West) TO GET TO COBH FROM MIDLETON (East)
SWIM Olympic Distance 500m course. A straight swim from beach on Spike Island to swim exit in Cobh. Buoys will be in place to guide swimmers. Sprint Distance 750m course. A straight swim along the waterfront. Buoys will be in place to help guide swimmers. Wetsuits are compulsory and swim caps will be provided. No wetsuit or issued swim hat, no triathlon. Swimmers will be asked to seed themselves, with elite and stronger swimmers to the front and weaker swimmers to the rear. Please be sensible here as the swim start can be quite physical with competitors jostling for position. If in any doubt stay to the rear. The swim will start in the water and swimmers will swim straight following marker buoys. There will be boats and kayaks on duty to help assist swimmers. There is a swim cut of of 30 minutes for sprint and 60 minutes for the olympic distance, which will be enforced. Organisers reserve the right to remove a swimmer from the water if they feel they are endangering themselves, members of the rescue team or other swimmers. If a swimmer wished to retire from the swim for any reason, lie on your back, raise your clenched fist in the air, stay calm and a rescue personnel will come to your assistance. You will be allowed to continue the race if you do wish to do so but will receive no official time/your timing chip will be removed. Ensure you pass over the time keeping mat/receiver after your swim when entering transition. SPRINT SWIM ROUTE TRANSITION 750m SPRINT SWIM START SPRINT SWIM FINISH COURSE BOUYS/ MARKERS SPRINT SWIM COURSE - COBH JAILBREAK TRIATHLON Title: COBH JAIL BREAK TRIATHLON Area: SPRINT SWIM COURSE Venue: COBH J/N: 00000 Event Date: SATURDAY 08/08/5 Client Ref: 0000000 Scale: NTS Date Drawn/Version: 03/05/5 Drawn By: Marc Anderson
OLYMPIC SWIM ROUTE TRANSITION 500m OLYMPIC SWIM START OLYMPIC SWIM FINISH COURSE BOUYS/ MARKERS OLYMPIC SWIM COURSE - COBH JAILBREAK TRIATHLON Title: Area: Venue: J/N: Scale: COBH JAIL BREAK TRIATHLON OLYMPIC SWIM COURSE COBH 00000 Event Date: SATURDAY 08/08/5 Client Ref: 0000000 NTS Date Drawn/Version: 03/05/5 Drawn By: Marc Anderson BIKE Olympic Distance 40km (4 laps) Sprint Distance 0km ( laps) Helmets are mandatory. Race number must be worn on the back. Competitors will NOT be allowed out of transition unless their race number is clearly visible. Your number must be clearly visible to the rear. To avoid delays to your time please help us help you! You must put on your helmet and fasten it before removing your bike from transition area. You must exit onto the road through/over the timekeeping receiver/mat before mounting your bike at the designated line/mark on the road. Do not mount your bike before this point or you will incur a minute time penalty. Similarly on your return you must dismount your bike on/before the line/mark on the road before re-entering transition area. Marshalls will be present to inform you of both mounting and dismounting. You must replace your bike on the rack in your own spot before removing your helmet. Do not unfasten or take off your helmet before racking your bike. Bike Route The bike route is a looped course with two around points. One is in the town centre by transition and the other is out by Cobh Golf Club on the road out of Cobh. Caution
should be taken at turnaround points and these will be well marshalled. Atheletes will be warned to slow down at both turnaround points. The route will be well sign posted and is generally a flat cycle route. Rules of the road apply. Please obey the Gardai and stewards at all times. Failure to do so will lead to disqualification. On your return you must dismount on or before the dismount line, stewards will warn cyclists to prepare to slow down/dismount. Drafting Under no circumstances will drafting be allowed. Draft marshalls WILL BE in attendance. Draft rules reminder You are drafting if you enter a box around the leading athlete m x 3m measured from front wheel to front wheel unless you are making progress through the draft zone to overtake and complete the move in 0 seconds. Penalties for Drafting: A) It is forbidden to draft in a race declared as draft-illegal. B) Technical officials will notify the athletes who draft they are subject to a time penalty sanction. This notification must be clear and unambiguous. C) The athlete sanctioned has to stop in the next penalty box and must stay there for a specific time depending on the race distance. minutes for sprint distance, 4 minutes for standard (olympic) distance D) It is the athlete's responsibility to stop in the next penalty box. Failure to stop will result in disqualification. E) A second drafting offence will lead to disqualification in standard distance events or shorter. F) The third drafting offence will lead to disqualification for long distance events. Finally and sadly there have been several accusations of pacing and coaching eg. athletes from the same club actively swimming, biking and running together. Like drafting, pacing is a form of cheating. Gaining an unfair advantage by these means is against the rules and not in the spirit of competition.
Area: TRANSITION START FINISH SWIM CYCLE COURSE RUN Laps = Sprint: White Route 4 laps = Olympic: White Route 5 = Signage 5 SPRINT and OLYMPIC TURN AROUND 4 3 CYCLE ROUTE - COBH JAILBREAK TRIATHLON 04 Title: Venue: J/N: Scale: COBH JAIL BREAK TRIATHLON 04 BYCYCLE ROUTE COBH 00000 Event Date: DAY 06/09/4 Client Ref: 0000000 :000 Date Drawn/Version: 03/05/4 Drawn By: Marc Anderson Olympic Distance 0km (4 loops) Sprint Distance 5km ( loops) RUN The run is a looped course. From the transition area turn left, and follow the marked route out along the waterfront. There will be a water station on the way back towards town. Please keep left on the side of the water station at this stage. The route will be well marshalled so please pay attention to stewards on the course. Also keep note of the number of loops you are supposed to perform.
CAR PARKING: Cobh is quite compact around the town area and therefore, there is very little parking in the centre of town, particularly in the race areas. Please use the car parks that stewards indicate to go to. Car Park Number : Cathedral Car Park: Follow above instructions, but drive past St Mary s National School and take the second left. The Cathedral car park is straight up on the right. It is a short walk down the hill to Registration and Transition area. Car Park Number : Five Foot Way Car Park. This car park is on the run circuit and close to the Sprint swim. However you will not be be able to exit this car park until all competitors have completed the race. Drive into Cobh Town Centre, head towards the Heritage Centre and Stewards will guide you to you parking spot. This car park is for Jailbreak Triathlon competitors only, and can only be accessed via the Heritage Centre Entrance on the day of the race. BEST OF LUCK