City Gets Ironman Input

Written by Peter McIntyre 107.5 KISSFM  Monday, 17 September 2012 20:08

Vernon city staff are putting in an Ironman-like effort to put together a proposed bid for Ironman Canada. City council will decide Friday in a special meeting if the they will make a bid to host the event for five years. Economic development manager Kevin Poole says they've been compiling information, and getting input from the public. "We haven't gone through and categorized them at this point as far as all the emails that have come in. I would suggest the ones we've sifted through, for the most part, people are in favour, but we'll take a look and bring that back to council." Poole says they've received about 100 comments from the public at ironman@vernon.ca "Probably the bigger one (input gathering) is the athletes who live in Vernon. They have also reached out to the public and they're getting flooded, so I would suggest they're getting much more than we are." Poole says it's a tight timeline to get the information together for this Friday, with proposals having to be submitted to the World Triathlon  Corp by Monday. "The WTO also has a tight timeline to put everything together on their end. They want to put on an event in less than a year."
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http://www.sportstats.ca/displayResults.xhtml?racecode=101407
 Random Stats from above link:
(3 woman and 8 men from Vernon competed in Penticton 2012 Ironman)
(1 person from Coldstream, 1 from Armstrong, )
(14 people from Winnipeg)(89 from Vancouver & 228 from Calgary & 97 from Edmonton))
(75 Participants were from Penticton) (57 Participants from Kelowna & West Kelowna)
(18 Men Pro, & 9 Women Pro.)
 (1 man over 75 years of age, 1 woman 80+)

Overall | 2500 participants - (1608 men & 814 women finished with average time : 13:09:23.38)