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The Alaska Women’s Gold Nugget Triathlon has taken place on the third Sunday of May every year for the last 27 years. The race began as a Girls Club event to encourage fitness and sports participation for girls. The youngest participant the first year was 6 and the oldest was 60. The race began at Dimond High School, but moved to Bartlett High School in 1988. This year’s event is scheduled for May 16, 2010 at Bartlett High School. Our event is the largest triathlon in the state, and it is also the oldest women’s triathlon in the country. Over our 27 years, the race has grown from 166 participants in its first year to 1,417 registered entrants for the 2009 race. Registration for our event has filled up and closed within 24 hours at a cap of 1400 participants for the last two years. This year we will be registering 1500 participants, and do anticipate again filling up in less than 24 hours!!
The Alaska Women’s Gold Nugget Triathlon means many things to many people. Each year we have over 500 women and girls sign up for our race who have never done the GNT before. We also have many hundreds of participants who wouldn’t miss it for the world, year after year. Our event has touched thousands of women’s lives in this state over the 27 years that we have been staging it. Many women use our event to make enormous changes in their life and health; some of our participants have even lost 80-100 lbs. training for our event. For others it is an opportunity to complete and event with their mother, daughter, friends or colleagues. For others still it is the prime venue to compete against other top female triathletes in the state.
Whatever your reasons for doing the Gold Nugget, or wanting to sign up, we thank you for your support and your participation! We invite you to check out our photos and stories from participants, learn some tips on how to improve your race, and find all the information you’ll need to both sign up for the event and to participate in it.
The Gold Nugget Triathlon is pleased to announce that thanks
to the generous donations from participants, we
are able to donate $3,781 to the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
(NOCC)!
258 participants donated a total of $3,265 through online
registration, and Gold Nugget Triathlon Inc. will be donating
$516 as our 'match' ($2 per separate donation received). Ovarian
cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer-related deaths in
women aged 35-74.
Survival rates are good for cases detected early, but unfortunately,
due to the vagueness of the symptoms and the lack of early
detection tests, most cases are detected in later stages, when
survival rates are not as high (as low as 29% for cases caught
at stage III or higher!). Ovarian cancer symptoms can
be very hard to detect, which is why we encourage all women
to go to the NOCC website (www.ovarian.org)
to familiarize yourselves with the symptoms. Also, knowing
your family history and getting regular annual exams are
two important steps you can take in the prevention and early
detection of all forms of cancer.
We are very grateful to our generous participants
who joined us in supporting the work of the NOCC!
Photographs of the race can be ordered from Action Sports International. If you would like to be notified when you pictures are ready, simply provide them with your name, email address, and bib number.
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