On Sunday, July 20, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, the Rotary Club of Littleton will be hosting its 21st Annual AppleMan Triathlon. The Appleman is the Club’s largest fundraiser, with 100% of the net profits from the race going to support the Club’s many community, national, and international projects. This year, we expect about 450 athletes to compete!
The AppleMan is a sprint event involving the completion of three sequential endurance races: a half-mile swim, 10-mile bike ride, and 3-mile run, starting at Long Lake Park in Littleton, MA. Competitors range from casual teams from families and businesses to dedicated individuals who compete in multiple events nationally and, in some cases, internationally. While top finishers in each age- and gender-specific class are recognized, the goal of most of the competitors is to improve their personal best times. Race timing and logistics are handled by NET (New England Timing), a well-known local producer of multisport competitions with more than 18 years of race production experience. The race is sanctioned by USA Triathlon, the national sanctioning body for triathlons in the USA and sponsor of the USA Olympic Triathlon Team.

Logos and names of our corporate sponsors are recognized on posters, t-shirts and banners and in social and print media. They may also have tables at the event, can provide advertising specialty items for the “swag bags” given to our contestants, and, in some cases, can arrange for a corporate officer to be interviewed on Littleton’s CATV station. There are several levels of sponsorship available; the more sponsors we have, the more money we can give away to charitable causes. We can always use more volunteers, too. For more information about sponsoring or volunteering at this year’s AppleMan, contact Roger Hartley, AppleMan Race Director, at 978-490-4273 or email him at rhartley48@gmail.com.

This year’s AppleMan is dedicated to the hundreds of hard-working volunteers, both behind the scenes and on-site, who make the Triathlon so successful. Thank you all for your amazing efforts and time commitment!