Bridgewater Triathlon Club

The following article is in the current issue of our local newspaper, the Lighthouse Bulletin/Progress.  We are very fortunate to have an excellent community newspaper that supports local groups

[BRIDGEWATER] – The Bridgewater Triathlon Club’s 2010 season is off and running.

Swimmers may take part in two practices, one a coached session to prepare for the upcoming race season, the other more unstructured and relaxed.

Cyclists are getting ready for warmer days with a weekly spin workout at the HB Studios Sports Centre. Using bikes on trainers, the program is designed to build good biking skills while increasing fitness.

During January, club member Tammy Slauenwhite is conducting a weekly session on strength training and stretching routines after the spin workouts.

full article http://southshorenow.ca/archives/2010/011910/sports/index001.php

Congratulations to all the BTC members that were 2009 TNS Point Series winners!

Hilites:

• Females took 10 spots out of the 70 positions (14%)
• Males took 3 spots out of 92 positions (3%)
• BTC members took 8 – 1sts, 3 – 2nds and 3 – 3rds

Youth Age 12/13

• Liam Patterson – 1st

Female  Age Group Winners :

• Mary Chisholm – 2nd (Duathlon)
• Caitlin Cormier – 1st (Duathlon)
• Freda Cormier – 1st (Sprint)
• Janelle Knickle – 1st (Sprint), 3rd (Olympic)
• Beverly Richardson – 1st (Olympic)
• Tammy Slauenwhite -1st (Duathlon), 3rd (Sprint), 1st (Olympic)
• Jen Worden – 2nd (Olympic)

Male Age Group Winners :

• Ron Allen – 3rd (Olympic)
• Paul Newton – 1st (Olympic)
• Steve Saunders – 2nd (Olympic)

Training Plans Information Exchange

Where: HB Studios Sports Centre conference room

When: Saturday January 23, 2010 starting at 10am

Cost: $0

What: Do you have some things you’d like to accomplish with your training this year?  Perhaps complete a (some) race(s)?  You are looking to hit some personal goals for time or distance?  Come share your training plan … and if you don’t have a plan, come find out what others are doing, get some information about upcoming races and training resources (ie: books, interent resources, online planning tools)

Notes:

• this is open to everyone
• after the meeting, there will be a session to determine maximum heart rates.  Bring your bike, trainer, heart rate monitor, towel and water

For additional information, contact : bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com

Many thanks to Al Heubach from the Lunenburg Bike Barn for helping us with our bike fit night at the Fieldhouse on Tuesday January 12, 2010.

Who knew that a few, carefully chosen adjustments could make such a huge improvement ?!?

Bring your bike and trainer for a bike fit session.  Al Heubach from the Bike Barn will show you how to set-up your bike for triathlon and the changes you can make for better road riding.  He’ll also have some samples of the different bike shoe/pedal combinations.

Also, get yourself video-taped while on your bike … pictures don’t lie

Notes

• open to all
• not a BTC event
• no charge for the session, Fielhouse expenses are your responsibility
• participate at your own risk

A couple of changes to the BTC Calendar page:

• there is now a calendar dedicated to RACES
• Bike related events are part of Other Workouts/Activities

Also, we’ve added a help section at the bottom of the Calendar page for things like:

• the options for viewing the Calendars
• how to view the Calendar in a separate, full page browser window
• subscribing to the calendar so you can integrate it into your PC-based (or mobile phone) calendar
• how to get Calendar entries via email

13 runners overcame their New Year’s Eve partying to participate in the 1st Annual Prediction Run.

In the end, Jeff Oakes narrowly prevailed with an estimated time just 0:19 seconds off his predicted time.  Congratuations to all the participants and thank you for your food bank food and monetary donation.  Jeff contributed his winnings to the food back as well!

Many thanks to Cliff Worden-Rogers ( www.livemultisport.com ) for organizing the event, the Patterson family for their help and support and HB Studios Sports Centre for letting us use their facilities and the use of the track.

All agreed that it was a great way to start of the new decade!

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