For 2012, the Bridgewater Triathlon Club is very pleased to reoffer the very popular ‘My First Triathlon’ program as part of the Fancy Lake practice series.  Once again, triathlete and personal fitness instructor Tammy Slauenwhite will lead the sessions that take participants through all the stages required to successfully complete a triathlon.

The program is suitable for all fitness levels, ages 12 and up.

Do I need a bike? I don’t swim, will you help?? What is triathlon??? … bring all your questions to a free information session to be held at the HB Studios Sports Centre conference room on Thursday April 26, 2012 from 6:30 to 7:30pm.

To sign-up or if you have any questions before then, please email us at bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com

More:

• Length: 10 weeks
• When Thursday May 3rd to Thursday July 5th
• Time: 6:15 to approx 8pm
• Where: Fancy Lake Provincial Park, about 5kms from Bridgewater
• Cost: $50 ($45 before April 30th)
• space is limited to 12

At the conclusion of the 10 week ‘My First Triathlon’ program, participants are welcome to join in the regular  Fancy Lake program that continues until Thursday August 16th.

Wishing triathletes everywhere a safe and happy holiday season and the very best for 2012!

• Janelle Knickle – President
• Gail Mercer – VP
• Caitlin Cormier – Secretary
• Tom Rogers – Treasurer

The minutes from the meeting provide a summary of what happened in 2011 and some of the plans for 2012 : http://bit.ly/BTC-2011-AGM-Minutes

AGENDA

• a brief review of 2011
• a peek at some of the ideas for 2012
• elect a new executive

MEMBER FEEDBACK

Member feedback has been received from the Fancy Lake survey and the End-of-season Member survey.  If you have anything else that you want included on the agenda, please send it to bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com by FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18th.

ELECTION

Members can vote in the election.  The following have offered for the 4 positions :

• Janelle Knickle – President
• Gail Mercer – VP
• Caitlin Cormier – Secretary
• Tom Rogers – Treasurer

On the 26th before the election takes place, there is a call for other nominations.  If there are any other nominations, there will be a vote, otherwise the following are in by acclamation.

REFERENCE

Minutes from last year’s AGM : http://bit.ly/2010-BTC-AGM-minutes

This past weekend, TNS held their annual banquet and they passed out a number of awards. BTC recipients included:

• Liam Patterson – 1st – age 14-15 – Youth
• Janelle Knickle – 1st – age 25-29 – Sprint
• Tim Brooks – 1st – age 35-39 – Sprint
• Kevin Johnson – 2nd – age 40-44 – Sprint
• Tom Rogers – 3rd – age 50-54 – Sprint
• Steve Saunders – 1st – age 55-59 – Olympic

Also, Jen Worden received the ‘Official of the Year’ award.

Congratuatlions to all!

The food was … exceptional … continuing the belief that triathlon really has a fourth discipline

The Point Series goes to the Female and Male that have the highest number of points in their best three races.  The recipients this year were Janelle Knickle and Liam Patterson.

The Warrior Award goes to the member that participates in the most number of races during the year — any type, anywhere.  The recipient this year was Steve Saunders.

The P-Series Award goes to any member that completes all three club events — a duathlon (run-bike-run), an aquathlon (swim-run-swim-run) and a triathlon (swim-bike-run).  Medal recipients included Caitlin Cormier, Diana Saunders (pictured above), Freda Cormier, Gail Mercer, Janelle Knickle, Karen Weagle, Ken Snook (pictured above), Kevin Johnson, Liam Patterson and Llew Chase.

And Tammy Slauenwhite was recognized for her outstanding efforts with the ‘My First Triathlon’ program this year.

Congratulations to all the award recipients and to all the members … it was an outstanding year!  Some of the 2011 memories are captured in our Photo Album, online at : https://picasaweb.google.com/bridgewatertriclub/

The last club activity for 2011 is our Annual General Meeting on Saturday November 26, 2011 where we review 2011, look ahead to what’s coming in 2012 and elect a new executive.

The rain kept falling but it didn’t deter a sell out crowd from taking in the 2011 Riverport Duathlon on Sunday October 2nd.

And the post race meal was maybe the best chili and apple crisp … ever!

Congratulations to all the participants and many thanks to all the volunteers and supporters that helped make the challenging day a huge success. (see below)

Overall Winner – Classic

• Male – Evan Pemberton
• Female – Suzanne Ferrier

Complete Race Results for the Classic, Team and Do-a-DU : http://www.atlanticchip.ca/events/results.php?year=2011

Photos

• BTC Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.10150307850021541&type=1
• TNS Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150471554139816.459049.231588849815

Sponsors

• CIBC Wood-Gundy
• High Liner Foods
• Lahave Street Auto Clinic
• Lunenburg Bike Barn
• Quest Coffee
• Riverport and District Board of Trade
• Tradewinds Realty
• Triathlon Nova Scotia

Draw Prizes

• Bridgewater Pharmasave
• High Liner
• Karen Toews
• Lunenburg Bike Barn
• NS Health and Promotion
• O’Regan’s
• Superstore
• TD Canada Trust
• Triathlon NS

Thank you:

• Jason Lomond — Occupational Therapy
• Klee Bang — massage
• RCMP – Lunenburg Detachment
• The people in the Community of Riverport and area that let us share your beautiful part of the world on the first Sunday in October
• And especially the army of volunteers that came out to help out on race day!

We’ve started to plan for the 2012 Riverport Duathlon, tentatively scheduled for Sunday October 7, 2012.  We hope you can join us.  (UPDATE: the 2012 Riverport Duathlon will take place on SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2012)

The 6th Annual Riverport Duathlon is taking place on Sunday October 2nd.

The overall format will be the same as previous years:

• 10am start
• two race distances
• chip timed
• great prizes
• post race meal

And some new things for 2011:

• Provincial Duathlon Championship race (10% more race points)
• Prize money
• new starting location — the site of our first duathlon — the Riverport Community Centre at 79 Lower Lahave Road, Riverport, NS
• the bike courses will be the same as previous years for both distances, however the runs are different — quiet, flat and fast
• the new site is tight for space so we are capping the race — Classic distance (4/28/4) : 80 individual/5 Teams and the Do-a-DU distance (1/14/1) : 20 individuals

Important links:

• More info about the event : http://bridgewatertriclub.com/riverport-duathlon/
• Riverport Duathlon on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riverport-Duathlon/120167141366195

This is the last race on the 2011 TNS calendar and will be a great way to end your season.  We hope to see you in Riverport on the 2nd …

Several people have recently asked about what’s going on at the BTC.  To give you a sense of what other members are up to, here are some options:

• EMAIL UPDATE — a low volume, send only update.  If you would like to receive this email, please let us know by sending an email to bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com
• FACEBOOK — our Facebook Group is open to everyone.  see: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=2417611540

And if you have any questions, send an email to bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com

Do you want to pool swim this fall?  We’re proposing three separate swims at emOcean in Lunenburg.  They’ll proceed if we can get enough people.  Each swim will be one hour long and run for 10 weeks (start mid October) .  The options:

• Open swim — basic lane swim, no set structure – Sunday nights from 6-7pm
• Coached swim — lane swim with structure by the on-deck coach – Wednesday nights from 6-7pm
• Learn to swim — meant for anyone just getting into swimming, there will be individual instruction/supervision – Wednesday nights from 7-8pm

We need to let emOcean know by Saturday Aug 27th how much pool time we expect to use this fall, so if you are interested in any of the above, please send an email to bridgewatertriclub@gmail.com.  These swims are open to everyone,  Cost will be determined by the number of people that participate. (typically $8/swim/week)