Kendra's Race
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Kendra's Race Triathlon and 5k
Kendra's Race is a multi-event weekend held in Goleta, California, on and around the University of California, Santa Barbara campus with the finish in Lot 6. The program for the day includes collegiate and age group sprint triathlon divisions, a relay division, and a 5k fun run.
Course details are provided for each leg of the sprint triathlon. The swim begins at Campus Point with a course of 200 m out, a left turn, 400 m along the shore, another left, and 200 m back to shore. Athletes climb a flight of wooden steps to the transition area on Anacapa Lawn. The bike consists of two laps of a circuit that mixes technical bike path sections with more open stretches on Los Carneros, Hollister, Fairview, Lagoon Road, and the Obern bike path before returning to campus and transition. The run is a single loop 5k over a rolling course that follows the UCSB lagoon on paved and hard packed trails, passes an aid station near the lagoon, and returns to finish in Lot 6.
Additional event notes include packet pickup on the weekend with a Saturday location at Goleta Trek, race day packet pickup at Anacapa Lawn, a reminder to bring a valid photo ID and have a USAT membership number ready, and that swim caps are not provided in race packets but are recommended. The university triathlon team renamed the event in 2006 after the death of a teammate and donates a portion of entry fees to a memorial fund. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.
