The Great Porcupine Gold Rush Triathlon — a bicycling, canoeing, and running event over the actual route of Ontario’s Porcupine Trail from Kelso to the Porcupine camp — will be held Sunday, July 31, at Timmins.
The “his toric” event is being sponsored by the Porcupine Prospectors Association, and other Timmins organizations, including the Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre.
The route, from Kelso southwest to South Porcupine, covers 55 km, and involves two levels of competition: a 2-person prospectors challenge, and a 4-person fitness challenge relay. Both members of the 2-person team must complete the entire bicycling, canoeing and running course.
In the 4-person event, one person competes in the bike race, two in the canoe race, and one completes the relay with the run to the Timmins Museum.
Participants, the organizers says, “can relive the excitement, the challenge and the hardships of the Porcupine gold rush.”
The bicycle race, from Kelso to Connaught, will cover 20 km, the canoe race, from Connaught to Hoyle, 20 km, and the run from Hoyle to the Timmins Museum, 15 km.
For information, contact the Porcupine Prospectors Association at Timmins, or call Greg Holland, (705) 264-7221, or Bill MacRae, (705) 267-7887.
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