Hello fellow CTCr's!
We are fully in the swing of summer. I hope all of you are happy, healthy and your training is going well.
Let me begin by welcoming two of our newest members:
Samantha Jenkins and Lisa Riehle – Welcome to the Chico Triathlon Club!!! We look forward to seeing you out and about!
Recent Races
We had another HUGE triathlon weekend last weekend.
Pacific Crest Endurance in Sunriver, OR saw a big contingent of CTC athletes. We had 9 athletes up there racing between the Long Course and Olympic Distance. Manny Mejia and Eric Ayars were kind enough to share their race reports with the group (which are awesome) and you can find them on the front page of our website.
Michael Daily had a strong performance at Ironman Couer d’Alene and Mike Marvier had a very solid day at the Sacramento International Triathlon.
Congratulations to all the triathletes out there doing their best! You make us all proud.
You can check out recent race results here - http://www.chicotriathlonclub.com/results/. (thanks to Greg Watkins for compiling)
If we missed anyone, please let me know!
Summer Party
Many thanks go out to Sean and Forough Molina for hosting the annual CTC Summer Party. I understand there were over 70 people there having fun, sharing ideas, stories and getting to know eachother. And Manny Mejia walked away the winner of the brand new Xterra Wetsuit! Congratulations Manny!
Upcoming events:
CTC Time Trial
As this is week will be the first Thursday of the month, we will NOT be out at the track Thursday night (tonight). We will be hosting the Chico Tri Club "First Thursday TT." We are going to be set up at the start of the 10 mile TT course on River Road (where 5th street turns into Chico River Road) at 5:30. Riders will be leaving at 6:01. This is a great way to test your fitness and see how you are improving.
Graeagle Triathlon
We have a fairly large contingent of athletes rolling up to Graeagle this weekend for some Triathlon action on July 6th. Sounds like it should be a great time. If you are interested in registering, please let me know as I have a code to save you a few bucks.
Mark your Calendars:
The Granite Bay Sprint Distance Club Championship - 51 days and counting
This event will be held on August 23rd and is the last club race of the year. CTC will reimburse up to $70 of the entry fees for the first 35 racers to request it. (Check out the website for details.)
Thanks again to our AWESOME sponsors - Simply Results Physical Therapy, Mom's/The Bear and Jacqueline Losi, Dermatology. We couldn't do cool stuff like this without them, so please take a moment to visit the folks that support the sport.
If you haven’t signed up yet, get on it! Every athlete finishing the race counts towards points for our club to win the championship!! You don't have to be on the podium to help the club, you just have to finish. :) As of last count we have several available reimbursement spots left.
As athletes in a long season sport like triathlon, we are inevitably going to end up with some sort of ache, pain or injury. This is a great time to mention that Kristi Ayars (of Simply Results Physical Therapy) invites you to ask questions of her any time, in any format: in person, by phone, or in email, about anything related to training, injury prevention, options in the face of pain or injury, etc. and anything else you might be wondering about. She has a great wealth of knowledge and resources at her disposal, so if you have a question, please ask!!
Don't forget to check out the group workout schedule here. You can connect up with some local and like-minded folks.
Join the conversations on our yahoo group at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/chicotriathlonclub/info
and at our Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/296289680516/
Until next time...Swim, ride, run and have some fun!!
Justin