Thinking about driving around the Mall tomorrow? Uh, I’d think real, real hard about that one: tomorrow is the D.C. stop on the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series tour. (Try saying that five times fast.) There’s a boatload of closures around the race course in the downtown area, including many major entrances into and exits out of D.C., such as the Whitehurst Freeway, Clara Barton Parkway, Rock Creek Parkway, and Maine Avenue off the Southeast and Southwest Freeways.

Most of these traffic snarls-to-be go into effect early tomorrow morning, beginning at 5 a.m. Rolling openings means that some will reopen around noon, others later in the afternoon — but we’d avoid the area by vehicle until much later in the day, if possible.

Check out the full list of closings here, or take a quick peek at our map above for a general idea of the closings.

[Ed. note: It appears as if Google Maps is having a bit of a glitch in correctly saving our map — we’ve attached a jpeg version of the map until an interactive one becomes available.]