Scheduled on an action-packed weekend, this year's Long Lake Triathlon will feature a newfangled course.

The triathlon will start and finish at Long Lake, as usual, with all the same transition.

But organizers are maximizing the use of single-track trails off the logging roads for the bike portion.

For the running portion, the route will also run along a new trail cut near Long Lake.

"A few people were suggesting it would be good to get off the double track, which was pretty rutted, and tended to pot-hole, fill up with water and get pretty mucky at times,” organizer Rick Janowicz said.

"So there's none of that, no pot-holes now; it's on a more scenic track, and it's fairly easy and good for all categories.”

Those interested can register until the end of Saturday by picking up entry forms at Icycle Sport, Coast Mountain Sports or the Polar Swim Shop.

The entry cost is $20, which will get competitors technical socks, a post-race barbeque and a chance to win draw prizes.

The Long Lake Triathlon happened to fall on the same weekend as the Yukon River Trail Marathon.

The triathlon was originally scheduled to take place on the Discovery Day Weekend, but many members on the organizing committee would have been out of town.

Janowicz said the option was to cancel the event or move it to another date.

"It was just the way the calendar fell. The consensus was to move it to this date,” Janowicz said.

As of today, the triathlon had seen a drop in numbers due to the upcoming event-packed weekend.

"I expect that we'll lose a few people because there's a lot going on this weekend,” Janowicz said.

Beside the Yukon River Trail Marathon on Sunday, the 4th annual Southern Lake Bike Loppet is set to go Saturday. The bike loppet is a five-leg timed bike relay which will run over 173 kilometres starting from Lorne Mountain.

"We just made a decision about a month ago to move it, so there really hasn't been a whole lot of advertising,” Janowicz said of the triathlon.

Organizers are expecting roughly 30 people.

In last year's triathlon, Ian Parker set a course record with a time of one hour, 33 minutes and 11 seconds.

Parker opted to forego this year's triathlon to focus on cycling. He took second in the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay from Haines Junction to Haines, Alaska, in June.