2012 Tri-a-Biathlon Challenge: Saturday, October 6, 2012

                           Southern Lehigh Education Foundation

                                                Presents

                                2012 Tri-a-Biathlon Challenge

                                    Grades 3-6: Bike/Run Race

                                    Saturday, October 6, 2012

               8 am start at Southern Lehigh Intermediate School

                                 ALL SCHOOLS ARE WELCOME!

Are you ready for your young aspiring athletes experience a new type of race? They will challenge themselves and experience something new and exciting in the sports world!On Saturday, October 6, 2012, we will be having a highly anticipated and unique event called the Tri-a-Biathlon Challenge!Come join us!

The Tri-a-Biathlon Challenge is a bike/run race for grades 3-12.It will start with the bike portion of the race at 8 am. We will have Saucon Valley Bikes, checking all bike tires and chains for the safety of our cyclists.All grades will ride their bikes for 4 miles though out our beautiful community.The Upper Saucon Police and Fire Department will be doing a great job (as always) managing traffic and keeping our cyclist safe. Throughout the entire race, we will have almost 100 volunteers to help, too. You will see this by their Tri-a-Biathlon ORANGE baseball hats.You can’t miss them!Also, we will have many residents cheering our aspiring biathletes along the route, too!Then, they will transition to our run portion of the race. Here are the distances for the run race:
 
 
·Grades 3-6: 1.5 miles
 
·Grades 7-8: 2.35 miles
 
·Grades 9-12: 3.1 miles (5K)

 
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Our special guests are Nicole Michalik (Q102.1 FM and "Biggest Loser": Season 4) and Ebee Price (2012 US Olympic Gymnastic Team)!!  Get to meet Nicole and Ebee!  They'll be cheering on the our athletes and signing autographs!

Register at www.active.com or got our website at www.triabiathlon.com.

Visit us on our Facebook page, too!  You can even sign up on Friday night (10.5.12) between 6-8 pm at Southern Lehigh Intermediate School (SLIS) or on race day at SLIS from 6.30-7.30 am.For additional information, contact Dr. Trisha Colasurdo (trish@triabiathlon.com; 484.225.3048) or Jennifer Wescoe-Schaninger (jen@triabiathlon.com; 484.553.6340).