Before the race each ath­lete will receive an email with basic race infor­ma­tion, start num­ber, and time they need to sign up at the race office.

You find the race office at the fin­ish (Kruisvest).

Ath­letes with an uneven start num­ber can enlist between 13h15 and 15h00, ath­letes with an even start num­ber between 14h30 and 16h15.

Only one team mem­ber needs to register.

You can obtain your race bag and chip with ankle band in the race office. Your iden­ti­ty will be checked via pass­port or com­pe­ti­tion license.

Per­son­al Cham­pi­onchips are not allowed, only the one pro­vid­ed by the organization.

An enve­lope con­tain­ing: (please check)

3 per­son­alised start numbers

• 1 bag for the swim/​bike tran­si­tion (for the wetsuit)
• 3 bags to store your street wear
• 4 num­bered stick­ers: one for each bag
• 1 swim cap
• 1 blue tyvek for the swimmer
• 2 orange tyveks: 1 for the bike and 1 for the wrist of the biker
• 1 green tyvek for the runner
• 1 tim­ing chip + ankle strap

Make sure you wear the right wrist band! Once removed it can­not be re-used!

• Blue swim­mer
• Orange bik­er and bike (frame or seat post)
• Green run­ner

In case a team counts only two team mem­bers the ath­lete who will do mul­ti­ple dis­ci­plines needs to wear both Tyveks.

Insured safe­keep­ing is locat­ed next to the fin­ish zone on the Kruisvest, oppo­site the Carm­ers street. Here you can safe­ly leave your per­son­al belong­ings dur­ing the race as of 14h30.

Impor­tant guidelines:

At insured cus­tody, your belong­ings will be stored in a struc­tured man­ner to pre­vent loss or damage.

Here are the steps to follow:

• Using a num­bered bag: You will receive a spe­cial bag in which you should place all your belong­ings. You should label this bag with a num­ber so that it can be eas­i­ly found.
• Prop­er­ly seal­ing the bag: Make sure that the bag is tied prop­er­ly before you hand it over. This pre­vents items from get­ting wet or lost.
• Drop off at cus­tody: You drop off the closed bag at the insured cus­tody. The vol­un­teers will rank your bag by number.
• Restrict­ed access dur­ing the race: The inten­tion is to drop off only items you real­ly don’t need dur­ing the race. This elim­i­nates the need for the vol­un­teers to con­tin­u­al­ly look for bags and put them back.
• Col­lect­ing after the race: After the race you can col­lect your num­bered bag again. This is done in the same area where you dropped it off. The bags will only be giv­en to the ath­letes who show their wrist­band with number.
• Show­er oppor­tu­ni­ty after pick up: Right next to the insured cus­tody there is a show­er area you can use.

The tran­si­tion area opens at 14h30 and clos­es at 16h45 sharp. You can­not enter the race if you show up after 16h45. By 16h50 all ath­letes should have either left the tran­sis­tion area or tak­en place in the relay zone.

Check-in via Pot­terierei (next to Snaggaardbrug)

Bike needs to com­ply with non-draft­ing race: only race bikes and time tri­al bikes (in good con­di­tion) allowed. In the tran­si­tion area your bike needs to be stored on the frame marked with your start number.

Pri­or to enter­ing the tran­si­tion area, please fix the orange Tyvek wrist­band to your wrist and bike. Only the cycle ath­lete with orange wrist­band can do the bike check in, no one else.

Swim­mer and run­ner don’t get access to the tran­si­tion area, only to the relay zone.

Bik­er and run­ner can’t leave bags in the tran­si­tion area, they have to deposit their street wear bag at the Ath­lete bag drop-off: Kruisvest (next to the fin­ish) near De Ver­loren Hoek.

Dis­tance: 1km

Start: Sasplein
End Swim: St-Leo­col­lege / tran­si­tion area

Noth­ing can be deposit­ed at the swim start. Trash can be dis­posed in trash cans.

The cyclist will be wait­ing (with­out bike) in the relay zone (Pot­terierei next to the Snag­gaard­brug) on his swim­mer. The swim­mer gives the chip to the bik­er, who can then run to his bike in the tran­si­tion area. The swim­mer should leave the relay zone as fast as pos­si­ble after the exchange. The cyclist can start the bike course.

Music (ipod) is for­bid­den dur­ing the race!

One lap of 45km

DRAFT­ING and BLOCK­ING are prohibited!!!

• Be dis­ci­plined: some­times the bike course goes over nar­row roads, don’t draft!
• Draft­ing zone: keep dis­tance from oth­er ath­letes 3m side­ways and 10m in front or back
• Block­ing: cycling next to anoth­er ath­lete is also pro­hib­it­ed. Over­tak­ing should be done with­in 30 seconds.

Penal­ties for draft­ing and blocking:

• Yel­low card: For each card you will spend 2 min­utes in the penal­ty box. If you receive 3 yel­low cards you will be disqualified
• Red card: Means dis­qual­i­fied. For draft­ing or oth­er seri­ous faults.

Penal­ty box

At the exit of the tran­si­tion area, before the run part (E. Zorghes­traat), you’ll find the penal­ty box.

Ath­letes who received one or more yel­low cards need to reg­is­ter at the penal­ty box. Skip­ping the penal­ty box means disqualification.

The full reg­u­la­tion can be found on the web­site of the VTDL

After cycling: All ath­letes enter the tran­si­tion area via the Pot­terierei. At the entrance of the tran­si­tion area, get of the bike and run to your num­bered place, store your bike on the frame car­ry­ing your number.

While run­ning in the tran­si­tion area keep your hel­met on you can remove your hel­met when your bike is on the frame.

Next the cyclist runs to the relay area and hands over the chip to his run­ner. The run­ner runs to the exit of the tran­si­tion area in the E. Zorghes­traat and starts the run course.

The bik­er leaves the tran­si­tion area as fast as pos­si­ble (bike check-out).

If the cyclist has obtained a yel­low card (see expla­na­tion about block­ing & draft­ing below) he needs to tell his run­ner. It’s the run­ner which needs to sit out the penal­ty in the penal­ty box.

The run­ner has to make sure he’s on time in the relay zone, when this should be he has to make out for him­self.
Warm­ing up can be done on Snag­gaard­straat (not beyond the cross­ing of Pot­terierei and Ropeerdstraat).

The run course starts at the E. Zorghes­traat, take right when you leave the tran­si­tion area. Next you go left in order to start the run course.

Course: 2 Laps — 10km (first Lap 6K, sec­ond Lap 4k)

The are 2 aid sta­tions on the run course where you have water or sports drinks.

Fin­ish: race num­ber in front please

Teams run over the fin­ish togeth­er. The swim­mer and bik­er can wait for their run­ner in the Sti­jn Streuvelsstraat just past house num­ber 54.

Only by run­ning over the fin­ish line togeth­er each team mem­ber will be able to receive his medal and surprise.

Swim: 35 min­utes. From 19h05 all cyclists have to be on their way. If the swim­mer is too late, the cyclist can already start but will receive a time penal­ty of 10 min­utes. The swim­mer hands over the tim­ing chip to his run­ner instead of his biker.

If the swim­mer is unable to com­plete the swim course, then the cyclist of the team can still start once the last swim­mer has com­plet­ed the swim course. The team will be dis­qual­i­fied, but bik­er and run­ner can still com­plete their course and expe­ri­ence the race.

Cycling and run­ning: The time lim­it to fin­ish is 22h. If your still in the race at that time and you have crossed the Kruis­poort, you can still com­plete the run course at your own risk. Ath­letes who didn’t cross the Kruis­poort yet have to leave the race.

The chip needs to be returned direct­ly at the fin­ish, you will receive a gift in return.

Only for athletes

Free drinks and food (main­ly fruit, can­dies, …) in the recov­ery zone.

Pos­si­bil­i­ty to view your result on TV. 

The Red Cross is on site (next to the fin­ish Kruisvest)

Show­ers can be found on the Kruisvest oppo­site the Carm­ersstraat (near the finish).

Don’t remove your Tyvek wrist­band before you check out your bike. Only the cyclist can pick up his bike.

Please check out your bike as soon as pos­si­ble after the swim – bike swap.

At the fin­ish you can catch up with a snack or a drink.

Drinks till 00u00. The bar clos­es at 01h00