Ashley Clifford won last year’s Sunbelt Bakery Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga race with a time of 4:20:33.
The competition returns Sunday, May 22, with a 1.2-mile, mostly downstream swim in the Tennessee River, a 56-mile bike ride that includes a 34-mile loop through Georgia and a 13.1-mile run through downtown Chattanooga and North Georgia.
Weekend events also include an Ironkids Chattanooga Fun Run, with distances of one mile and a half mile for children ages 3-15, at 6 p.m. Friday, May 20.
Find out more at www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman-70.3/chattanooga.aspx#/axzz48v959LjU.