Bridgewater Triathlon Club

BTC member Cliff Worden-Rogers is currently preparing for IM70.3 Southern California and took part in a 5 day pro triathlon camp hosted by his coaching company — LIFESPORT — during the week of February 15, 2010 in Victoria, BC.

He chronicled his experience, you can read his notes from each day by clicking on the Responses at the bottom of this post.

Thinking about some new gear for 2010? Gotta clean out the old before you bring in the new???

There will be a gear swap, exchange, sale at the Fieldhouse on Saturday March 6 from 1-3pm in the conference room.

Nita’s Reruns will be there and she has an excellent selection of name brand sports gear (running tops, shorts, bike shorts, swim suits, etc.) at very reasonable prices.

Checkout your gear locker and see what’s ready to be recycled.

It is open to everyone and there are no charges. There will be tables in the room you can use for display.

Many thanks to Tammy Slauenwhite for leading the strength and stretch sessions at the HB Studios Sports Centre during January and February.

Tammy put together a ‘how to’ summary here

She also setup a 20 week check-off sheet here

About Tammy …

• certified by CanFit Pro as a Personal Trainer Specialist and Group Fitness Instructor
• nine consecutive years of experience training clients one-on-one and in groups
• most recently she was the instructor for the Town of Lunenburg’s Biggest Loser Challenge teaching individuals within the community on how to be active and live healthier lives

Let the games of the 1st Wintathlon begin!  A beautiful sunny day for a rousing game of ball hockey

Many goals were scored.

And a triumphant moment for a TO fan (there aren’t many, but they are so sweet when they come

In the second event of the day, Andrew demonstrates that he doesn’t need water to be a shark!

Good fun, great weather, lots of food … perfect!

More photos from the Wintathlon are in the Club’s photo album.

The plan for the BTC’s Wintathon at the Municipal Area Recreation Complex (MARC) in Dayspring on Saturday Feb 13, 2010:

• 1pm – 1st Floor of brick building is booked for us and is available to drop off food, equipment
• 3pm – Neil Clarkson demos how to wax your skis
• 3:30 to approx 4:30 – Winter Triathlon – (see Steve Saunders)
• 3:30 – pickup hockey on the outdoor rink – (see Nancy Petrie)
• 4:30 – Indoor fun tri … meet inside – (see Mary Chisholm)
• 5:30 – 7:00 – potluck supper

Also …

• "Take the Roof off Winter’ is also taking place at the MARC so there could be lots of people around
• skis and show shoes are available for free from 2-4
• in addition to our events, there will be sledding, cross country
• skiing, hiking, a skating rink with hockey and one rink without hockey, a bonfire.

The current forecast sounds encouraging for winter sports.  Have fun !!!

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 ?!?

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