Xterra Sleeping Giant
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XTERRA Sleeping Giant : 2026, Thunder Bay
The event takes place at 400 Lyon Boulevard West, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, on the shores of Lake Superior. Bike and run courses cross mesas and boreal forest trails carved through ancient rock formations. The run course is shared by multiple race formats.
The program includes a range of off-road multisport events, duathlons, relays and trail runs, and the event awards 28 qualification spots for the XTERRA World Championships. A half marathon is run as four laps of the designated trail course.
Main race formats
- Kids Triathlon (6-9): 50 m swim/splash, 800 m mountain bike, 400 m trail run
- Kids Triathlon (10-12): 100 m swim, 2.4 km mountain bike, 800 m trail run
- Triathlon Full Off-Road: full distance with qualification spots
- Triathlon Sprint Off-Road and Super Sprint Off-Road
- Duathlon Full and Sprint: run - mountain bike - run (replaces swim)
- Running Half Marathon (4 laps), 10 km trail, 5 km trail
- Triathlon Relays: captain and team member entries
Registration uses tiered pricing (early, normal, late) with some entries including a T-shirt. The event has formal deferral policies for pregnancy/postpartum and for gender-affirming surgery that remove the original registration and issue a promo code for the following year, with confidentiality. An open/non-binary division is offered; athletes in that division are not eligible for World Championship qualification. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.
