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TCM Newsletter: Thursday January 31, 2008
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2008 Happenings |
Other Stuff |
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2008 Triathlons - Spring |
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Training Tips |
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2008 Happenings
A belated Happy New Year to TCMers and their families. We hope you had a safe and fun New Year celebration. As we’re already 1 month into the New Year it’s time for an update on what’s happening with the Club:
Board:
The Board has now been finalized and comprises:
Andrew S – president
Abbie F – membership Secretary
Renee R - treasurer
Phil R – run lead
David R – webmaster
Mike B – sponsorship
Nancy R - swim lead
It’s great to have a full slate of members and we’re hard at work on Club activities for 2008.
Showdown at Sundown:
As mentioned previously the Club is co-sponsor of this event – see our website and also http://www.vineman.com/race06/ - on June 7th, 2008. We are looking for volunteers to help staff the event – we need 30 in all so round up your friends, relatives and neighbors and shoot us an email with numbers as soon as possible.
This is an exciting event not only for the Club’s development but also for Marin.
Members’ Training Program
This is currently in development and we hope to post this to our website very soon. Stay tuned. We are also negotiating with Dominican University to try and get use of their pool again over the summer – keep your fingers crossed and we’ll let you know as soon as possible.
Social Event
Mark your calendars for FRIDAY MARCH 7th for the first social event for the year. Get to meet the Board and meet fellow members. More details to follow.
2008 Triathlons – Spring
The following is a list of triathlons in and around the Bay area starting in the Spring. Check out their websites and let Club members know if you sign up – maybe find a training partner?
Note that both tbfracing and envirosports have many other events so check their websites for details.
Training Tips
7 Mistakes Triathletes Make Most. Hopefully, You Can Avoid Making Them! (from Wes Hobson)
- Increasing training volume too quickly. When many triathletes take up the sport, early improvements in performance come from improvements in aerobic fitness associated with increased physical activity. The danger is that often a "SOME TRAINING IS GOOD, THEREFORE MORE IS BETTER" attitude develops and before you know it you have an overuse injury.
- Spending too much time on your strongest leg instead of working on your weakest. Work on your weaknesses while maintaining your strengths.
- Using training "hard" as an excuse to eat and drink whatever you like. What you eat today affects your training tomorrow.
- Not taking time to rest and recover. Rest, recovery, regeneration, relaxation are all words to describe the process of allowing your body to adapt to hard training.
- Training at too high an intensity. Many triathletes often train too hard. This results in excessive body stress and residual fatigue carrying over from one session to the next. Aerobic, or base training, training helps triathletes develop endurance. Aerobic training is done at low intensity.
- Not planning an integrated, balanced training program. It is important that you find time to develop a training program for triathlon, not swim, bike and run. It sounds weird but there is a difference between training for the individual legs and for the overall sport.
- Copying the "secrets" of champions. Much of what we know about athletic performance we have learned from observing, monitoring and testing great athletes. Listen to the great ones. Learn from their successes and avoid reproducing their mistakes. Above all, take from the champions what is appropriate and applicable to you at your level of competition and suitable to your training background.
Other Stuff
Don’t forget to keep checking our website at www.triclubmarin.org for updates on workouts, social events etc.
We are always looking for suggestions/content for the newsletter. If you have any ideas, links, articles you want to contribute email me at: seacap@netscape.com before Thursday.
TriClub Marin
PO Box 829
San Anselmo , CA 94979
www.triclubmarin. org
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