Hello Gators, Hopefully you have your calendars marked for the first ever Gators Member Meeting taking place on Wednesday, December 17, 7pm-8:30pm at the Y... If not, mark them now!!! This week I've participated in two meetings with some of the clubs leaders to prepare for the meeting. We have lots of exciting information to share with you and it's also a great time for you to provide some input. One of my meetings was with the club coaches. We laid out plans for our tri club workout schedule for the first half of 2015 with particular focus on January-March. In addition to some minor modifications to the schedule to account for our transition to the "base building" phase of the year, we also are starting aseminar series that will begin on Saturday, December 20 with a seminar on "training plan building" that will be conducted by our Head Coach, Danny Friend. This will take place during the first part of our usual tri club workout slot. 7:15am-8:30am (to be followed by a 45min-1hr bike trainer session). So please mark your calendars for that event as well! Participating in these two pre-holidays events will put you in great position to get 2015 off to a fantastic start! And we can't wait to share all of the other details with you on December 17! This week's topics include... · Accomplishments... 110!!! · Who's Next. Keys to success!!! · About a Gator... "Chris"mas season!!! · In the News. It's Heimer Time!!! · 2015 Race Survey. Who's up for a race... or two or three!?!? · Mark Your Calendars... Winter schminter. We still have plenty of Tri Club activities for you!!! Happy Birthday! Best wishes to Tim Moseby who celebrated his birthday this past Wednesday, December 3! Accomplishments: 110 was the number for the week. 110% effort and 110 "100's". · Abington YMCA Gobble Wobble 5K (Thursday, November 27): o Riley Milligan gave 110% in winning his age group.PODIUM!... and also finishing in the top 4% overall (out of almost 1,800 runners). Awesome run, Riley! o Dean Milligan also had a great race finishing in the top 20% of both his age group and the entire field. Great job, Dean! · Just keep swimming (Sunday, November 30). Nabil Radaoune along with a couple of long distance swimming buddies (Charles Bender and Allison Leigh) decided to do one hundred 100's in the Y pool. Not only did they accomplish this goal, but they decided to tack on an additional ten 100's for a total of 11,000 yards. 6.2 miles. 10K! Great job Nabil (and Charles and Allison)! Who's Next?: What's a Gator to do when it's too cold to race? Well, head south to "Gator homeland" also known as Key West, Florida. This Saturday, December 6 (tomorrow), Gregg Heimer, Jeff Spillane, and Dave Marine take all of their "Rocky Run" fitness and put it to good use in the Key West Triathlon! Have fun, guys! About A Gator - Chris Reiter: In this edition, Chris shares his story of getting into triathlon with us and tells us about what he has planned next! In The News - Gregg Heimer: A few weeks back we included a note and newspaper article about Gregg Heimer's accomplishment as part of a team from Montgomery County Community College (where Gregg works) in being designated as one of only two community colleges in the USA as a "Bike Friendly University". Now there are two YouTube videos covering this accomplishment and both feature Gregg very prominently. To top it off, Gregg is sporting his Gators bike jacket during portions of both videos. Way to go, Gregg!!! Here are the links to the videos. · Includes narrator (1:35): http://youtu.be/teKxm7p86CM<http://youtu.be/teKxm7p86CM> · Visuals and music only (4 minutes): http://youtu.be/di9zeBqao6o<http://youtu.be/di9zeBqao6o> 2015 Race Survey: Coming to your in-box this weekend. We're conducting a short race survey to see who's planning what for 2015 to help us determine our club events. We'd also like to see who is interested in participating in various relay events. Watch for a survey e-mail in your in-box sometime this weekend. Results will be reported at the December 17 members meeting. Mark Your Calendars: Weekly Workouts: Remaining workouts for this week include... . Saturday, 12/6, approx. 7:15am-9:30am: Tri Club with Don M . 7:15am-7:45am: Swim . 7:45am-9:00am: Bike trainers on the Y indoor pool deck. If anyone that missed this week's Lactate Threshold Heart Rate Test on the bike would like to complete it during this session, please let me know when you arrive. . 9:05am-9:25am: Run . 9:25am-9:30am: Stretch Upcoming Events: . TONIGHT. Friday, December 5: Jingle Elf Run... Our sponsor Chester County Running Store is also the sponsor for this fun event, a 2 mile race, that precedes the West Chester Old Fashioned Christmas Parade. This is a fun race that includes two loops of the heavily crowded parade route and a "Jingle Elf Hat" for all registered participants. There are also two kids runs, a one mile walk, and lots of places on the race/parade route to celebrate afterwards. Anyone interested? http://runccrs.com/results/race-calendar/?event_id=1397<http://runccrs.com/results/race-calendar/?event_id=1397> . Wednesday, December 17, 7pm-8:30pm: Member's Meeting, Spring-Valley YMCA, Corporate Conference Room... Be there! Watch for an evite coming soon! . Saturday, December 20, 7:15am-8:30am: Seminar - "Building a Training Plan" . Thursday, January 1: 2nd Annual RefrigaGator OWS... More coming later on this for any brave/nutty souls that are interested! Go Gators! Don M <!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --> <!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --> <!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } --> <!-- .ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P { padding:0px; } .ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage { font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; } -->