By The Numbers: Life Time Tri Chicago
This weekend the Life Time Chicago Triathlon will celebrate its 30th anniversary by staging the largest event of its kind.
Photo: Paul Phillips
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This weekend, the Life Time Chicago Triathlon will celebrate its 30th anniversary by staging the largest event of its kind—a jam-packed weekend of racing that culminates with an Olympic-distance race. Here’s a look at what it takes to stage the country’s biggest triathlon:
9,500
racers
14,000
bottles of water
250,000
pounds of ice
100,000
cups
1,000
bike racks
40
kegs of beer
58
start waves
200,000+
spectators
2
miles of crowd-control barricades
Check back to Triathlete.com this weekend for a race recap and photos from Chicago.