Email Update 1-10-09

Well I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays! I know I'm definitely ready to get back into the swing of a regular training schedule and routine. If you haven't planned out your 2009 race/training season yet, we have a pretty complete race schedule of local races with links to the individual race sites on our tri club website at the following link . . .http://tampatriteam.blogspot.com/search/label/Races

FYI, the Muddy Buddy registration has opened! The race will be on Sat, May 9. It was a blast last year. If this is something you are interested in doing, you need to get registered soon. You can go to www.muddybuddy.org for more information. Definitely a must do, at least once.

Before I get much further, WELCOME to all of our new tri-club members. We have several people that are new to our group, new to the Y and new to racing in general, so WELCOME to you! Click Here for a complete list of classes at the Y that we deem more "tri-specific". Also, we will be adding several more Spinning classes to the schedule starting in February - so this schedule will change slightly. I will keep you posted on this.

For those of you training for St. Anthony's or your first Olympic Distance Triathlon this season, Lisa Sandusky will be leading a FREE Olympic distance training program. The informational meeting is on Wed, Jan 28 at 6:00 p.m. at the Bob Sierra YMCA. The training will start the following Monday. If you would like to participate, but will not be able to make it to the meeting, you can email Lisa directly at Lisa.sandusky@verizon.net. For those of you that are BRAND new to triathlons, Lisa will be leading another beginner training program this summer for a sprint distance race.

Our tri-club uniform order is placed and is going through the print process now. Let's plan on Friday night, March 13 as our pick-up date right now. I would love to get everyone together for a team picture with all of our new stuff if possible. If you didn't order anything, I will have just a handful of extras of certain items. If you want to reserve something, let me know asap, but it is too late to place a specific race uniform order. However, you can still order our club, white dry-fit shirt with our new team name (T³). These shirts are the same brand as the Iron Distance Challenge shirts and the shirts we ordered last year - they are pretty loosely cut. The prices are listed below. If you haven't already ordered one of these, you can email me your order and size and drop a check off at the YMCA, made out to the YMCA. The prices are below . . .

$17 - Sleeveless
$18 - Short Sleeve
$20 - Long Sleeve

Because this email goes to so many people, it has a tendency to fall into spam folders. Once we're in season, if you go two weeks without an email from me, most likely it's in with your junk. If that's where you want to keep it, that's fine. However, if you feel like you have missed some information, the key points will be posted on our website, so you can always check that out (www.tampatriteam.com). Thanks so much to Kevin Miller for keeping this maintained for us.

Thanks to Ken Page for sharing this great link . . . http://findaraceevent.com/user/search.aspx. It allows you to find a race based on your criteria, ie: Olympic Distance Race in June in Georgia. The link is posted on our website on the left as "Find a Race to Match Your Criteria ". If you have any useful websites that you think should be added as links to our webpage, please let me know.

Prime Physical Therapy will be doing Metabolic testing at the Y on Saturday, Feb. 7 from 8am – 12pm. The cost is $50. For more information, you can contact Nikki at Nikki.Nekoloff@TampaYMCA.Org

I have posted some training information on our website too, along with some training and race results logs. These are programs that I put in the original notebook that I gave everyone at our "founders" meeting a couple of years ago. There is a VERY first-timer sprint, a beginner sprint for the athlete, a beginner & intermediate Olympic and a half-ironman program all posted on there. I figure if you are doing Ironman races, you most likely already know what you're doing and have figured out the resources that you need.
Here's a link to the page with the training programs . . .
http://tampatriteam.blogspot.com/search/label/Training%20Programs

Our tri-club board has moved downstairs outside the new Spinning Room. Be sure to stop by the board to write down any upcoming races that you are doing. I know that there are a few people doing the Gainesville winter tri/du races this weekend - I hope it goes great! I probably won't start following race results until February. Some upcoming races are listed below. Let me know if you are doing any of these . . .

Chilly Willy Duathlon - Fort Desoto - Feb 8
Clermont - April 14 & 15
Gainesville Winter Tri's - Feb 8 and March 8
Zephyrhills - March 15 - small, great race (pool swim) to start the season)
Miami Olympic - March 15
Clean Air Ride - March 21

See you at the Y!
Jill