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This weekend will be the culminating event for Orange Room’s Tri-Factor Series, the Triathlon. The organizers put on a whole series for Singapore’s Triathlon enthusiasts this year with a Tri Swim in May, a Tri Bike in June and a Tri Run in August.

B-Active Sports and Wildlands Conservation Trust, the organizers of the 2010 Bonita’s / Sunday Tribune Midlands Ultra Triathlon, are pleased to announce a new race date for the popular event that takes place at Midmar Dam. This unique triathlon event which is part of the Bonita’s Wild-Series will now take place on Sunday, 7 March 2010 at the picturesque Midmar Dam.

Here’s a list of the top 10 mistakes I made as a brand new triathlete. I hope that you will learn a little from these yourself and also share some of your priceless mistakes, because lets face it, they’re hilarious when you think back on them! …Then, Brian didn’t care to notice that the transition area was getting extremely empty and announcers were warning him to leave or they’ll drag him out….

USA U20 Collegiate Champion, Cameron Schafer rattled more than a few nerves when he won the 3rd leg of the Compendium Winter Multi-sport Triathlon in a time of 1hr 55,57sec at Suncoast Casino yesterday. Top SA Duathlete, Bryce Viegas made short work of the Olympic Duathlon event, claiming the well deserved first place duathlon spot ahead of a small but star studded duathlon field.

What follows is the report of my interesting experience at the Chicago Triathlon Triple Challenge 2008. I’ve posted it somewhere else before but thought it would be fitting to post it here at the end of this year’s Chicago Tri. I would love to hear your experiences of this massive event so if you don’t even make it to the end please just scroll down and tell me your story! If you would like your full report published here then shoot me an email. I would love to post a collection of fun and interesting reports!