Hello Gators, Happy PI Day! Good day for triathletes since our favorite number is 3! So what’s special to us about the rest of PI… 3.14159265?141: Ironman distance (140.6 miles) rounded off5: Days per week that we offer Gator group workouts… Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday9: Number of Gators participating in this year’s Ironman Lake Placid event2: Number of Gators participating in other Ironman events65: Our current number of members This week's news topics include...Spring Workout Update… Time to get outside!!New Seminars… Swimming technique and more on Training Peaks!!About a Gator... Record breaker and back fixer!!Recommended… Hard to the core!! Happy Birthday!: Best wishes to the following Gators celebrating birthdays this week!J D Landis (March 10)Kelly Beauchamp (March 14) Spring Workout Update: Our club coaching staff met earlier this week to discuss our plans for the spring. Early spring is a big transition month for us as we gain daylight and degrees on the thermometer and start to move outdoors. Here’s what we have planned for the next few months…March: No changes to our current schedule.April-June:Mondays and Wednesdays: No changes to our current schedule...10am-11am: Tri Swim Class (Don Schlichtmann)8:30pm-9:30pm: Tri Swim Class (Steve Durante on Mondays and Maribeth Baker on Wednesdays)Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays: The plan is to get outside as soon as we can, hopefully sometime during the first half of April (with some indoor workouts still scheduled and also as a backup in case of inclement weather)… Stay tuned for more details coming soon! New Seminars: At our recent coaches meeting we confirmed the following two seminars…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.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! About A Gator: Did you know that we have a member that once qualified for the Olympic trials? And he has maybe even a more important event coming up in a few months. Read all about it in this week’s About A Gator profile. Recommended: This week’s recommendations include two newly discovered podcast series…“The Case for Core Training – How Strong Core Muscles Make You a More Efficient Runner” (Marathon Training Academy podcast and article)… Good overview of the basics of core training… Why it’s important and how to do it… http://marathontrainingacademy.com/case-for-core-training Mark Your Calendars:Upcoming Events:Saturday, March 28: Analyzing and Using Training Peaks Data seminar (Danny Friend)Sunday, March 29: The Love Run… This is the first Gators club event of the year. We have a group of 30+ Gators, family, and friends participating and would love to have some of us also cheering on the sidelines. For more information about running, contact Michelle Leonard. For more information about joining the Gators cheer squad that day, contact Don Mack.Monday, April 6: Swimming Clinic (Kinetic PT)Coming in April or May: Indoor Triathlon… We are starting to plan for this event and made some significant progress this week. Details coming soon! Weekly Workouts: Remaining workouts for this week include...Sunday, 3/15: We do not have planned group/coached workout, 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) slots Go Gators! Don M