A Sprint Class Triathlon on Aug. 2, 2025, at Deep Lakes Park in Muscatine has the support of the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors.
The board of supervisors gave its support for the Sprint Class Triathlon made up of swim, bike and run events during its Sept. 23 meeting. The backing comes with the stipulation that Detective Adam Raisbeck of the Muscatine Police Department, who is organizing the triathlon, work with County Engineer Bryan Horesowsky and the contractor of the Stewart Road project to address logistics.
“You just kind of got to blaze forward and figure it out because you don’t want to delay. I think it’s a good project. I think it’s a good effort,” Chairperson Jeff Sorensen said. “That’s a perfect area for an event like this. It’ll showcase the resource, the park that we have there and hopefully, keep the activity high down there.”
Raisbeck, who plans to become certified through USA Triathlon as a race director, said the swim portion of the triathlon will be 600 meters; the bike ride, 15 miles; and the run, a 5K.
The event will be a group effort between law enforcement, the chamber of commerce, USA Triathlon as the sanctioning organization, a major sponsor funding the triathlon and community volunteers, Raisbeck said.
“The Sprint Class was chosen specifically because in my opinion I think it’s the shortest distance of a sanctioned triathlon that you can do,” Raisbeck said. “Deep Lakes was chosen specifically because the layout and the geography of the park is perfect for a triathlon atmosphere – the beach, the water, the routes, the size.”
The Sprint Class Triathlon will be a USA Triathlon-sanctioned triathlon.
“It means that the triathlon would be points competitive in the USA series, so anybody in the country that’s looking to register a national time for the qualifiers, this event, since it’s sanctioned, would count for a qualifying time,” Raisbeck said.
Raisbeck’s goal is to bring in elite classes from about a 7- to 8-hour radius, adding local participants and extended community.
“There’s a lot of different layouts of triathlons throughout the season,” Raisbeck said. “The geography of this is very flat and fast, so people that are wanting to come in to register a good time for qualifying, this course layout would be a big draw for the elite classes.”
Raisbeck, Horesowsky and the contractor of the Stewart Road project will be tasked with addressing potential route challenges because the bike and run courses will use Stewart Road. Approximately 7 miles on Stewart Road will be used for going out, turning around and coming back.
“From a secondary road standpoint, one of the biggest challenges is we hope to be building Stewart Road,” Horesowsky said. “Hopefully, in a perfect world, it will be done by August 2nd, but I really can’t guarantee that. What’s planned for down there is reconstruction from roughly Fruitland Road north to the city limits. Construction will be staged because there’s so many businesses along that stretch, so it’s really tough to know exactly where we’ll be at come August 2nd.”
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