Palouse Duathlon will raise funds for Young Life camp

Athletes will get a first-hand tour of Palouse this weekend as they jog and bike a sometimes-hilly, sometimes-flat 14-mile route for the first-ever Palouse River Duathlon Saturday, May 14.

Starting time will be 10 a.m.

Organizer Mark Sawyer put together the duathlon to help raise funds for Moscow, Pullman and Palouse youths to attend a Young Life summer camp.

“It’s not just a running race- it’s a multi sporting event,” Sawyer told the Gazette.

Racers in all divisions will take off from the Palouse park at 10 a.m. Saturday. Timing will be done with computer chips.

Participants get a shirt with...