Crooked, or trail, trees, are traditional indigenous trail markers. Highland Bike shop brings you an off-road (cross) duathlon (run-bike-run) held at The Keppoch just outside Antigonish during which you'll run and ride past several of these markers.
This is not for the faint hearted! The Sprint Distance event has nearly 600 m of climbing whilst the Standard has 850 m of climbing, so bring your climbing legs and a granny gear! Both events feature two climbs of the downhill MTB run Chicken-Cougar on the run whilst the bike-course uses both the easy and intermeadiate trails and is mix of doubletrack and singletrack. Preliminary course maps are below and the courses are also available as .gpx and .tcx formats if you want to go for a pre-ride. There will be some minor changes on the east-end of the bike loop to remove a run/bike cross.
Run 1 (Standard Distance)
Bike (one loop Sprint, two loops Standard)
Run 2 (for both Sprint and Standard, also Run 1 for the Sprint).
This event is brought to you by Highland Bikes and The Keppoch and is sanctioned by Triathlon Nova Scotia (TNS), the provincial governing body for multisport.
Now for the boring stuff.
You need to be a member of TNS; one-day memberships are available. If you are a member of any Triathlon Canada sanctioned provincial association, contact Andrew in the office (triathlon@sportnovascotia.ca).
We encourage teams (one runner, one cyclist) as well as solos.
This is full-on mountain biking; you need a mountain bike; 26", 27.5" or 29" with a minimum 1.5" (40 mm) tyre width. It's draft-legal. Drop-bars (road bars) are not permitted and frankly.Any questions about equipment choice, contact Paul at The Keppoch or Andrew at TNS. The full rules of triathlon, including cross duathon can be found on the ITU website
This is a strenuous activity; by starting you declare you are in good health and in an appropriate physical condition to complete the event.
Registration fees
Sprint Distance Off-road Duathlon Closed
4 km Run- 8 km Bike- 3 km Run. If you are not a TNS member, a $20 one-day membership is available
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CA$60.00Aug 9 - Sep 2
Standard Distance off-road duathlon Closed
6 km Run -16 km bike - 3 km run. If you are not a TNS member, a $20 one-day membership is available
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CA$60.00Aug 9 - Sep 2
Team Standard Distance Closed
One runner, one cyclist; both team members need to be TNS members. One-day Team memberships are available at $10 per participant
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CA$80.00Aug 9 - Sep 2
Team Sprint Duathlon Closed
One Runner, one cyclist; both team members need to be TNS members. One-day Team memberships are available at $10 per participant
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CA$80.00Aug 9 - Sep 2
Contact information
- Event contact
- Paul Basile
- thekeppoch@gmail.com
