Escape from Alcatraz (triathlon)

Runners completing the third leg of the 2022 Escape From Alcatraz Triathlon.

Escape from Alcatraz is the name for two different triathlons held in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. The Escape from Alcatraz originated in 1981 as a private club event, beginning in San Francisco and ending in Marin County. The race split in 1983 with a separate commercial event open to the public, which is now an aquathlon (having dropped the biking section of a traditional triathlon) held on a shorter course entirely within San Francisco.[1] However, a new public triathlon, also known by the name Escape from Alcatraz, is now run by IMG.

  1. ^ "About the Alcatraz Aquathlon & Swim" Archived 2007-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, based on an article written by Katherine Vaz in the 1983 summer edition of Triathlon Magazine, accessed April 11, 2007