Ordinary Mortals Triathlon

• Run Course map and elevation - loop around campus
• Bike Course map and elevation - out to airport and back
• Swim - pool serpentine swim all 6 lanes - see PDF attachment for swim description
• Transition and finish line area map shown in PDF attachment below

Click the PDF below for race day details including:  packet pick up, parking, transition times and start times.

Click the icon below to download the attached PDF.

We recognize the top 3 overall male and female finishers and the top 3 male and female in each 5-year age group starting with 15-19, 20-24, up to 70 and above.  We do not mail awards so please try to stay for the awards ceremony around 11:30, earlier if we have solid results. 

Course Records:  Tim Hola, 2014, age 40, 54:00.6   and  Jasmine Carlson, 2016, age 31, 1:01:04.1

Results at CSU-P:    2012    2013   2014   2015  2016    2017   2018

2018, 2019, 2020 & 2022 are viewable using the Race Results tab in the left-side column
2020 & 2021 - event cancelled due to the pandemic 

Note: searchable results on runsignup on the tab to the left.  Results will be published there first.

Dr. Steven Jonas first used the term "Ordinary Mortals" in his 1986 book Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals (New York: Norton, 1986, 2nd ed., 2006), the first-ever book for beginners in the sport.  (Subsequently, he obtained a registered trademark for “Ordinary Mortals.”)  He has a new book on duathlon only, Duathlon Training and Racing for Ordinary Mortals®: Getting Started and Staying with It, (Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press/FalconGuides, 2012). From 2013 he will be serializing his book 101 Ideas and Insights for Triathletes and Duathletes  (Monterey, CA; Coaches choice, 2011) on the USA-Triathlon website.  He has also worked closely with Coach George Dallam, Ph.D. on two of George’s books, Championship Triathlon Training (Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics, 2008) and the forthcoming Coaching and Teaching Triathlon (Monterey, CA: Coaches Choice, 2013). His website, www.ordinarymortals.net details his work of his over 30 years of training, racing and helping others in triathlon/duathlon and exercising regularly for health. With his permission we are honored to continue using the term “Ordinary Mortals®” for our Triathlon.

Michael Orendorff, the original race director of the Ordinary Mortals Triathlon (OMT) here in Pueblo was inspired by Dr. Jonas work and wanted to bring the multi-sport to Southern Colorado.  The original cofounders of OMT, Herb Brockman and Don Thompson, were employed at the Regional Center where the original race was hosted from 1987 to 2006.  Within a few years, the race became a respected annual race event by the YMCA of Pueblo until 2006. In 2016, Don Thompson returned to volunteering with OMT as our most excellent Bike Course captain!

Gwen Steves, a local triathlete and swim coach had fond memories as a teenage volunteer counting laps for the early OMT events and asked her friend, Kim Arline, to help host a Youth triathlon in 2011.  After that success, they worked to bring back the adult triathlon, Ordinary Mortals Triathlon (OMT) along with the youth Mini Mortals race in 2012.  Due to increased traffic in Pueblo West, the returning race was held at CSU-Pueblo campus and the airport along with an Event Management class at CSU-Pueblo in 2012.  Starting in 2013, the event has been organized and run by the Southern Colorado Triathlon Club which is part of the long standing Southern Colorado Runners club.

2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to Covid-19 but we came back stronger than ever in 2022!