Membership Benefits

• Opportunities to meet, socialize with, and learn from other multisport athletes.

• Weekly club workouts, including brick (bike-run) workouts (with a supervised transition area), bike time-trials, and open water swimming (with permit from the NFTA, and safety equipment on hand).

• You will be covered by USAT general liability insurance when participating in BTC events.

• Substantial discounts and special offers from our club partners, including discounts on some local races.

• Admittance to our club meetings where we discuss important club issues, and sometimes have guest speakers and refreshments.

• Voting rights (18+) in club matters, such as the annual board of directors election.

• Invitation to attend our annual banquet.

• Monthly newsletters, which we use to keep our members informed of club events, discounts and special offers from our sponsors and partners, and other updates and announcements.

• Opportunities to purchase official BTC apparel and other merchandise.

• Access to bike boxes that can be borrowed to transport or ship your bicycle to an out-of-area race.  We have also created a document with information regarding bike shipping considerations, complete with an example using our club bike box, and Tom's Pro Bike has produced a very nice YouTube video that shows the complete process of packing a bike.   Please contact our bike box coordinator for more information or to reserve a box.

Special Events, Guest Speakers, and Social Events

Some of the other things we've done regularly in the past have been:

• Special events with a BTC partner

• Special off-season training sessions, such as indoor swims

• Guest speakers

• Off-season get-togethers (Winter/Holidays)

• Informal end-of-season get-together after the final Wednesday swim of the year

• Events & workouts hosted by individual members (non-BTC sanctioned/hosted)

Membership Types

We offer a variety of membership levels.

• All memberships are valid for 1 calendar year and expire on Dec 31st each year. 

• Memberships purchased after Oct 1st will carry over to the following calendar year.

• Each person over the age of 18 is entitled to vote in the affairs of the BTC, except for associate members. If possible, please provide a unique email address for both adults in a family membership to assist in voting/ballots.

• All transactions, beginning January 1st, 2025, will incur a $1 processing fee.

Individual Membership ($30 / year)

• • One adult over the age of 19.

Family Membership ($35 / year)

• • Any two adults and their children under the age of 18, living at the same address.

Collegiate Membership ($ 15 / year)

• • Full time student under the age of 23. 

Youth Membership ($15 / year)

• • One individual aged 7-18. 

Associate Membership ($15 / year)

• • One individual residing outside a 100 mile radius from Buffalo. No voting rights.

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We use a 3rd party service (TidyHQ) to maintain our membership database and to handle registrations and payments. If you have any problems with the online membership system, or any other questions, please don't hesitate to contact our membership committee via email.

* Here is a link to a USAT article titled "Why You Need to Join a Triathlon Club!"

General Membership Meetings

Normally we host two general membership meetings each year to provide updates about the club. One in the spring and one after the triathlon season in the fall/winter.

The spring meeting is usually held in March and hosted at the site of one of our partners. The spring meeting is to discuss the upcoming season and to provide updates about the club. All members and non-members are welcome to join us to learn about the club. Everyone is encouraged to attend including people on the fence about becoming a member of the club.

We hold our annual "banquet" in the fall/winter to provide club updates, present annual club awards, and congratulate each other on their accomplishments over the last season. We always have a slide show of pictures from the year and socialize over dinner at a local event space.

Board of Directors Meetings

Our board of directors meet once per month (usually 11 times per year). Members are welcome to attend, but they must RSVP to the board at least 3 days before the meeting, so that we can make sure we have enough space to accommodate any guests. If they have an item that they would like added to the agenda they must submit it in advance as well (1 week minimum) and we will do our best to include it. Members can listen in, but due to time constraints there will likely be little opportunity, if any, for them to participate in the discussions (of course they would participate in the discussion of any agenda items that they submitted). Under some circumstances the board may need to enter into a "closed door session," with board members only, to discuss a topic and/or take a vote. Copies of board meeting minutes are available to any member upon request.

Special Events, Guest Speakers, and Social Events

Some of the other things we've done regularly in the past have been:

• Special events with a BTC partner

• Special off-season training sessions, such as indoor swims

• Guest speakers

• Off-season get-togethers (Winter/Holidays)

• Informal end-of-season get-together after the final Wednesday swim of the year

• Events & workouts hosted by individual members (non-BTC sanctioned/hosted)

Special events will be announced in the monthly email newsletters.

Please refer to the club calendar for meeting times and locations.

We make our club roster available to our partners so that they can verify the members of our club when they want to take advantage of special offers and discounts that are provided to BTC members only.

BTC partners are provided a link to our club membership roster. The link should work for the entire calendar year, so save the email! Our membership roster changes daily/weekly as additional members join the club. The roster is updated regularly, but is not in real-time. If you lost the the link to the roster, looking for a newer roster, please send a message to our membership committee or our board members.

The information contained in this roster must not be used for any type of solicitation or advertising campaigns directed towards our members.  If a partner would like to advertise to our members they must do so via our established communication channels (club newsletter, club email list, etc).  The information should be sent to our board members, who will approve and publish it.

The information contained in this roster must not be shared with anyone who is not a member or sponsor of the BTC.

Violation of these terms may result in the suspension of one's BTC membership, and/or the termination of one's partnership agreement with the BTC.

The BTC offers a few different options for acquiring BTC apparel.

• We host pop-up sales a few times a year for leisure-ware and for racing apparel (tri  shorts, cycling jerseys, running singlets, jackets, etc...)

• Sometimes we have stock on-hand of certain apparel and non-apparel items such as swim caps, hats, arm warmers, etc...

Questions, comments, or requests about existing stock or suggestions for future orders can be directed at our apparel team.