Hello Gators, Two important events this weekend… Tomorrow’s 9am-10am “Training Peaks Data Analysis” seminar (Danny Friend; takes place in the Corporate Conference Room, which is down the hall between the two gyms) and Sunday’s first team event… The “Love Run Half Marathon” that includes a team tent (#10)… Great start to what should be a great spring season for us! This week's news topics include...Spring WorkOUTS… The key is “OUT” as in outdoors!!!Who’s Next?... Feel the Love (and ignore the pain)!!!Who's After That?... Got an April race? Let us know about it!!!Accomplishments... MARSathon!!!About a Gator... Raising Kain!!!Mark Your Calendars… Seminars, meetings, and workouts galore!!! Happy Birthday!: Best wishes for a great day (and a great Love Run) to Steph Babiec, who celebrates TODAY, Friday, March 27!! Spring WorkOUTS: Thanks for your input on our recent survey! It helped us to formulate our workout plans for April-June. Starting in April, our Tuesday night, Thursday night, and Saturday morning workouts will move outdoors, weather permitting. The default plan will be to go outdoors and details will be communicated via Facebook and/or e-mail. The first workout where this may occur is next Thursday, April 2. The tentative plan is to start our Tuesday and Thursday night workouts at 6pm (locations TBD) with Tuesday night including a bike/run brick and Thursday night being a bike ride only. Saturday mornings will typically start sometime between 7am-8am at various locations and will include a bike/run brick and a monthly open water swim. For the bike rides, we will have a planned workout and will accommodate multiple pace groups. The backup plan in case of inclement weather for all of these workouts is to move indoors at the same time/location we’ve been using over the winter season (i.e. Tues 7:30pm spin/run, Thurs 7:45pm trainer ride, Sat 7:15am trainer ride/brick run). We are also likely to reinstitute Tuesday night yoga sessions (probably starting at 8pm or 8:30pm). As you can see, still some details to be finalized so please monitor Facebook and e-mail for updates as weather will play a large role in determining what we do for each workout. And let us know if you have any questions/comments. Who’s Next?: Our season really gets rolling this weekend with the “Love Run” half marathon taking place in Philadelphia. We have a group of 50+ Gators, family, and friends participating in the event and this includes 26 Gators. Whether you are doing your first half marathon, trying to set a PR, or just out for a training run with a bunch of friends, have a great race! Gators participating include… Eric Afre, Suzanne Angelaccio, Steph Babiec, Kelly Beauchamp, Ken Beauchamp, Trevor Bellino, Vince Bellino, Michael Connelly, Adrienne Foster, Jim Foster, Ellen Friend, Gregg Heimer, Heather Irwin, Nadine Isabell, Michelle Leonard, Dean Milligan, Tiff Pfluger, Tim Pfluger, Maureen Pinkerton, Chris Reiter, Don Schlichtmann, Byron Solvason, Heather Tracey, Brent Voynar, Allison Wesler, and Jon Wesler. Family and friends include… Irene Afre, Angela Bellino, Lucy Bellino, Patricia Bellino, Caroline Brant, Kimberly Brown, Dan Corredor, Elizabeth Corredor, Stephanie DerOhannessian, Kendry Dewey, Tara Dutton, Kris Estelle, Monica Hawkins, Cortney Jacobs, Faisal Khan, Deborah Knox, Kimberlea Latsha, Samantha Miller, John Mulhall, Tina Raymond, Jake Schlichtmann, Meghan Schweitzer, Elizabeth Selgrath, Karen Vavra, and Karl Vonder Schmalz. Who’s After That?: Just a reminder to get your race schedule added to our 2015 “Who’s Next?” calendar, especially if you have any events in April (anything longer than a 5K). So far for April we have participants in the following events. If your event is missing, please let us know.April 4: Hot Chocolate Run (15K; Philadelphia)April 18: Spartan Tri-State New Jersey Beast (12+ mile adventure race)April 19: Delaware Valley Duathlon (Doylestown)April 20: Boston MarathonApril 25: Lenape Survival Challenge (adventure race; Schwenksville) Accomplishments: Congrats to NASA’s Mars Rover for completing an entire 26.2 mile marathon on the surface of Mars earlier this week! It left on its journey in January 2004 and finished in 3,968 Martian days! About A Gator: Row, row, row your boat… as fast as you can down the river… and then do some marathons and an Ironman race! Find out who, what, and when in this week’s edition of “About A Gator”! Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming Events:SEMINAR: Saturday, March 28, 9am-10am (following shorter bike workout due to the following day’s Love Run): Analyzing and Using Training Peaks Data… Well, we provided you information on how to get your data into Training Peaks. Now what do you do with it? Our Head Coach, Danny Friend, will discuss this and answer your questions.CLUB EVENT: Sunday, March 29: The Love Run… This is the first Gators club event of the year. Our group of Gators, family, and friends has reached titanic proportions with 50+ members (thanks, Michelle!) participating. For more information about running, contact Michelle Leonard. For more information about joining the Gators cheer squad that day, contact Don Mack.SEMINAR: Monday, April 6, 7:45pm-8:15pm: Conference Room-based Swim Clinic (will end in time for the regular Monday evening Tri Swim workout). This will be conducted by Kinetic PT. More details coming soon!EVENT: Indoor Triathlon… This event is postponed until later in the year due to logistics issues. We will conduct a members mini-tri in its place… Details coming soon! Weekly Workouts: Remaining workouts for this week include...Friday, 3/27 and Sunday, 3/29: We do not have planned group/coached workouts on these dates, but just a reminder that run workouts are now being posted on Training Peaks in the Friday (shorter run with intensity) and Sunday (longer run with a small amount of intensity) slotsSaturday, 3/28, 7:15am-10:45am: Tri Club with Don M7:15am-8:45am: Bike trainers on the pool deck, part 1… This part ends in time to attend the 9am-10am Training Peaks Data Analysis seminar (Corporate Conference Room) and is also a good duration for athletes training for shorter races (sprint and Olympic).8:45am-10:15am: Bike Trainers on the pool deck, part 2… This part is designated for those looking for a longer workout and not attending the seminar.10:15am-10:45am: Brick Run Go Gators! Don M