Adventure Sports Week in Tahoe City is underway! This 10-day event featuring trail running, a triathlon, stand-up paddling, and swimming, along with live music, clinics, film showings and other family-friendly events. Adventure Sports Week is partnered with the Tahoe Fund’s Green Bucks program. For every race registration $1 is donated to the program. The Sierra State Parks Foundation is also a partner and will receive $1 for each registered athlete at select events.
Adventure Sports week began Saturday the 22nd with hundreds of cyclists in the Big Blue Adventure’s Lake Tahoe Mountain Bike Race followed on Sunday by the Burton Creek Half Marathon, 12-kilometer, and 6-kilometer races located in the Highlands Community Center and Burton Creek State Park.
Mid week kicks off training for the XTERRA triathlons, a unique triathlon format featuring open water swims, mountain biking and trail running. Wednesday, June 26 Big Blue Adventure will lead a pre-run of the XTERRA course, followed by a pre-ride on the bike course the next day. Each training session will begin at 6 p.m. and is open to anyone. An open water swimming clinic will be held on Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Commons Beach.
The big XTERRA event will be held Saturday, June 29, bringing hundreds of athletes to Commons Beach to compete in a variety of events. The day’s competition will feature a triathlon, a shorter triathlon, a duathlon (biking and running), and the aquabike (swimming and biking) race.
The Sierra Open Water Swim Series will also get underway Saturday morning at Commons Beach with the season-openin
g race, the Tahoe City Swim. The competition will get underway at 9 a.m., and features distances of a half mile, 1.2 miles, and 2.4 miles.
Adventure Sports Week will warp up Sunday the 30th with Sacramento soul and funk group Joy and the Madness playing at Commons Beach as part of the summer concert series.
For more information and to see the full schedule of events check out the Adventure Sports Week Tahoe website.
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