Bergen Triathlon routes:

The 2010 Bergen Triathlon will be arranged Saturday June 19th. 2010. The event will be held at Askøy, just outside Bergen Centre. It will consist of 3800m swimming in the sea, 180km bike ride in four 45km laps, and a maraton 42.195km run, also made up from a four lap route. The route will take place in scenic environment in the archipelago west of Bergen, characterised by small islands and the sea in sight for most of the route, both swim, bike and run.

We have been looking forward to present the route of the Bergen Triathlon 2010. A lot of effort and work has been put in to finding the best solution possible for 2010, seeing major changes to the event as we will no longer run it together with the Bergen Voss bike ride, as we did in 2008 and 2009.

Following the new concept we can now allow for normal triahtlon bikes and tri-bar equiment. We now that a lot of the competitors will welcome this change.

We have also decided to change from the A to B type of race we had with Bergen Voss Triathlon to a race were the start, transitions and finish are in the same area. 

We have also decided to have the event a little later in June for several reasons. Both for the prospects of getting acceptable swimming temperatures, as well as letting the competitors have more time to adopt to open water swimming after the "pool-season". 

Thus, in 2010 the event will be held at the island of Askøy, just west of Bergen City Centre. The island is reached by car over a bridge, an approximately 20minutes drive from downtown.

The swim will be held at Kollevågen Friluftsområde (Communal bathing beach/area). The details of the swim, such as lap numbers, lap layout etc. is not ready yet. More details will follow. We have 2 backup lake options in the same area if sea water temperatures are unfavourable.

You can find a very nice picture slide series from the Swim area at Bergen Omland Frilufttsråd's web pages - here (click).

The bike leg will be covered by four laps of approximately 45km. Each lap will go from Kollevågen, past Tveitevannet to Ravnanger, and from Ravnanger follow the main road to Herdla, the North-West tip of Askøy. Here you will turn back and head back towards Ravnange. Just before reaching Ravnanger, you will take right on the new road towards Hanøytangen and Kollevåg for one lap completion.The bike leg will have no big climbs, but with an undulating hilly coastal landscape, it will still be challenging.

Garmin GPS track for the bike leg can be downloaded from here (click).

The run leg will be covered by 4 laps of approximately 10.55km. You will run from the transition area at Kollevågen towards Ramsøy.  You will run in typical coastal West Norway surroundings, and the last part beofre the turn of the run will ba over a causeway constructed to have road acces to the little Island Ramsøy. The causeway was build as late as late 80's, so Ramsøy still bear signs of the times when it was only reachable by boat.

A Garmin GPS track file for the run leg is planned posted later on.

For further details - refer the "Race Manual" which will be available for download from the Race Information page before registration starts. Registration of entries will start November 15th at 12:00 hrs (CET)

In this short Youtube video (2 min), you get some small impressions from the route by some photos accompanied by music.