Saturday morning bike & run “brick” workouts are ongoing.

OWS (open water swims) started just before the beginning of May. We’re currently doing OWS both off the Patuxent, and on the Potomac. We’ll stop when the jellyfish arrive.

Beginner Triathlon Training Events are planned for:

• Sat May 8, Swim & T1 (swim-to-bike transition)
• Sat May 15, Bike & T2 (bike-to-run transition) & run
• Sat May 22, Practice all parts of triathlon (or as many as you like)

PaxRiverTri membership is done on the bigtent site, at https://www.bigtent.com/groups/paxtri

Kickoff Meeting to start the 2010 Summer Beginner Triathlon Workshop

Saturday, April 24, 11:30AM, Nicoletti’s (Hickory Hill Shopping Center)

Meeting is free & open, and pizza will be provided.

Training series will require club membership (as with all club training activites, for insurance purposes). Membership is by calendar year and costs $35 for individual/$55 for family.

A practice sprint triathlon will be held as the culmination of the training series.

The 2010 Board was elected this winter. At the meeting tonight officer positions were chosen, and planning for the year continues. Planned or hoped-for activities include: Saturday Bricks (to begin in early April), practice duathlon, practice triathlon, kids triathlon (hope to be sanctioned), St Clement’s Swim/Picnic/Run, Beginner Triathlon Series, Spring OWS (open water swim), Fall OWS (open water swim). More news to come as the year progresses.

Club practice triathlon for kids and adults Saturday morning, July 25.

Kids event starts at 0800; please come out and help marshall the course for the kids event.

The adult event will be held after the kids event ends, so everyone can first help with the kids event and then participate (if desired) in the adult event.

Adults event is a practice sprint triathlon with pool swim in the Wildewood pool: est 400m swim, 15mi bike, 5K run.

Kids’ tri is much shorter, in several distance options.

Usual payment convention: Events are free to members; non-members must pay membership fee first & join (registration available race day morning).

Club plans a St Clement’s Island Swim/Run/Picnic on the island on Sun, June 7, 2009.

OWS (Club open water swims) are underway; details posted in club mailing list.

Swim stroke review & videotape session. Saturday April 18 afternoon at St Mary’s College. Contact Jodie Smith to be scheduled a time slot.