The CV Tri Club offers the opportunity for individuals to take part in our activities without a membership commitment. Kind of a "try before you buy" concept for the club membership. Tri BC supports our club in this approach as well. But, after a couple of "tries", we’d like you to commit to the "buy". Some activities may have a different fee depending on whether you are a member or not. And there are some social events that only Social or Train/Race club members (and, usually, their guests) are invited to attend.

This depends on the training, and the answer for an activity may change year-to-year. Refer to the club’s web site Training page for current details. For example, in the Fall/Winter, the Sunday spin sessions have facility insurance and waivers for those activities. So, the Tri BC membership is redundant and a Social membership would be good enough. There are also other activities that are not formal club activities that would be posted on the Facebook page. Examples would be posting awareness of Fall/Winter lane swimming times that some club members often appear at, or impromptu gatherings for a snowshoe or other type of activity. However, there are some club-sanctioned training sessions that need to have Tri BC sanctioning with insurance. In those cases, you will need the "train and race" membership. See FAQ below for more details.

Some club activities need to be organized more formally, and therefore need to be sanctioned through Tri BC – which then wraps insurance around the activity for both you and the club. Tri BC is going to want participants in these types of events registered as a Tri BC member (implied in a club train/race membership). But, besides the club activities, the Tri BC and Tri Can memberships offer additional benefits for the added $55 annual fee. For example, an annual Tri BC membership would mean you would not have to pay any event-day Tri BC fees for Tri BC sanctioned races during the race season. To see if their overall membership benefits are of value to you, read more membership information for Tri BC at www.tribc.org/membership and www.tribc.org/membership-registration, and for Tri Canada at www.triathloncanada.com/membership.

Yes. You will need to get a Tri BC and Tri Can memberships added to your online registration account. Refer to www.tribc.org/membership-registration and proceed through their registration process. Note that the $5 Tri BC discount for club affiliation is not automatically applied like it is in a normal CV Tri Club train/race registration process. To get this discount, you will need to contact Tri BC (info@tribc.org) to get a discount code to apply at the Order Summary stage of payment.