Bridgewater Triathlon Club

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

As we close in on 200 pages of info on this site, finding stuff becomes more of an issue.

Fortunately, the SEARCH function — located on every page on the right side bar — is very good for finding things on this site.  For example, if you wanted to find some info about the upcoming Greenwood race, type ‘Greenwood’ into the search box and …voila.  Refine your search with ‘Greenwood race preview’.

How about a little vanity seaching … go ahead, type in your name and see if you show up — maybe you won some things and you didn’t even know about it

On May 22 and 23, Dr Genadijus Sokolovas who works with the US Olympic Swim Team will be in Halifax to conduct Power Swim Testing.  The Bridgewater Triathlon Club has been invited to participate and club members can have their swim stroke and power output evaluated.

• the test takes about 15 minutes
• a cord is attached to you to monitor your power output while a synchronized video captures your swim stroke
• each swimmer will have 1 stroke analysis which includes 4 runs — two with pull buoy breathing to the opposite sides, one full stroke and one sighting so that the swimmer’s weaknesses and strengths can be pin pointed and drills recommended
• the time has to been finalized, but we are trying to get a club spot between 11-1 on Saturday
• the cost will be approx $100 per person, altho we are trying to negotiate a club discount

Whatever your swim level, this would be very beneficial if you want to improve your swim.

If you are interested in participating or have any questions, please contact Tom at : bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com

Many thanks to Tristaca Caldwell from ‘Fueling with Food’ ( www.fuelingwithfood.com ) for a very interesting and informative presentation about nutrion and athletes.

There were may takeaways and it should help many of us reach higher levels in our athletics.

The presentation was well attended.  Please let the executive know if you have any topic suggestions for future presentations.

One of the more popular pages on the BTC website is the CALENDAR.  A couple of things that might make it more useful to you:

1 – Link to the Calendar : select this link if you want just the calendar in a separate browser window.  Note that you can view the Calendar by:

• Agenda (long list)
• Week
• Month

You can also look at each of the following calendars individually:

• BTC Practices and Events
• Biking events (not associated with the BTC, but it might be of interest to BTC members)
• Other Events (typically runs)

2- BTC Events only

• Calendar in a browser window
  
• url so you an subscribe to this calendar from your calendar program : http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com/public/basic.ics

3- Bike Events only

• Calendar in a browser window
• url so you an subscribe to this calendar from your calendar program: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/91ebmcq417mdtdcd1l875veo0c@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

4- Other Events only

• Calendar in a browser window
• url so you an subscribe to this calendar from your calendar program: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/krfqfa2gma2utts7ers311cnbk@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics