Following her excellent 20th place finish in the recent Triathlon World Championships in Edmonton Canada, Flora Duffy returns to Xterra Triathlon racing next Saturday September 20th as she competes in the USA National Championships.
The XTERRA USA Championship is the culmination of a series of more than 50 qualifying events across the US that award points to the top athletes in XTERRA's eight regions.
Pro athletes race for their share of the $80,000 prize purse. Sixty-thousand for the XTERRA America Tour Championship, and $20,000 goes to the fastest pros at Nationals.
Having won in 2014 three USA regional Xterra Championships, the Oceania XTerra Championships and the South African Xterra Championships and finished 2nd in the ITU Cross World Championships Duffy will start as one of the favorites.
