Fun Facts
February 27, 2009
Some people are not getting the weekly fun facts so I decided just this time to re-post them here. If you have paid this year and didn’t get an e-mail Wednesday let me know.
If you are a past member and haven’t joined yet you can send the check to me at PO Box 6402 Santa Barbara Ca 93160 and I will get it to Chris. Check the ‘join’ tag on the site for prices.
Before I get into some upcoming races I just want to let you know next months meeting will be at Hazards/ Santa Barbara Running at 6.30pm. I’ll remind you again next week, and let you know the program, but thing will be certain….I won’t be running the meeting. I’ll be on vacation so Chris Latham will be stepping in to keep you all under control. Be nice to her, she’s just a girl!! ( LOL! Just kidding!! Joking!! Didn’t mean it!!!)
So it’s definitely getting closer to the start of the race season, but before you do that we have a little social responsibility to take care of:
Adopt a Highway:
Their is now a tab on the website www.sbtriclub.com so you can sign up to help out. If you voted Democrat in the last election it’s your civil duty to help clean the environment. Republicans will be excused so they can go hunting! Here’s a little reminder from Craig Adams,
I picked up the new (Neon Puke Green) vests, so I’m ready to schedule a highway cleanup. I’m targeting Sunday, March 8th, at 2:00 PM. Can we set up the sign-up board to reflect?
Dave, can you include a message on the Thursday notes?
Thanks
Craig R. Adams
Done!! Hope to have a good showing. If you’ve never done it before it takes a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon and you’ll feel good about yourself for days.
OK now for a few races:
Breath for Life:
We got you a discount,
Hi Dave,
Active.com has just activated your codes for this year and they had to make a slight change to one of them:
The two codes that will work are:
sbtc9
SBTC09
There is no difference in the two, both good for $10 off, but they are both case senstive.
Thanks,
Bill LaVigna
Dina LaVigna Ventura Breath of Life Triathlon/Relay
June 28th, 2009
Race Co-Director
310-710-7337
So if you are planning on doing Ventura’s Breath for Life here’s one more good reason to be a member of the Tri Club
Nautica Malibu Triathlon:
No discount for this one but the registration opens March 2nd and it WILL sell out. The dates have changed so pay attention. The new dates are September 12th and 13th. Go to www.nauticamalibutri.com for details and to register. They have an Olympic distance in addition to the funky distance they’ve always had.
I don’t normally promote runnig races because we are triathletes, but will always make an exception for events run by UCSB. The local running races are covered very well by the SBAA so you won’t see results here or on our web site, you may see a shout out for the promoters of the UCSB events.
So here’s the first:
Hi David,
Before your Sunday morning workout come out to UCSB on Saturday March 14th
and Saturday April 25th for two new and unique cross country races.
The Alumni Association along with the Santa Barbara Independent and Santa
Barbara Running have started a cross country race series on the UCSB
campus. There are two races left in the series, one on March 14th and the
other on April 25th. It is $20 for faculty and staff when pre-registering
and $25 for faculty and staff when registering on the day of the event. For
general public it is $25 when pre-registering and $30 day of. Registration
starts at 7am and the race starts at 8am. If anyone would like more
information they can go to www.idependent.com/sbxcseries.
…and the second:
I wanted to invite you and your fellow 7am runners to come out to the
Shamrock Scramble on Saturday, March 14th at UCSB. This unique XC race is
5 miles in length and features some great singletrack and trails. I would
be more than happy to give you all the $20 discount rate – they just have
to put on their registration form “Sunday Long Run – Hope Ranch.” The
website is www.regonline.com/shamrockscramble.
Hope to see you out there! Give me a call or email if you have any
questions.
Kind regards,
John
WAIT: That’s the same race, but if you’re paying attention you get a discount on the second announcement, and finally:
The UCSB Triathlon
Registration is now open for the March 29th race, so go to http://www.ucsbtriathlon.org/website/index.html to register.
That’s it for now on the race scene.
Now that we all got totally amped from the time trail last Friday I want to finish with this weeks ride schedule:
Saturday now has three ride options. The 7.00am group leaves from East Beach and has seen a group regularly going long around the Lake. The 8.30am group has been gaining numbers, momentum and from what I hear a little speed, so if you want to hang in bed a little longer that may be for you. They also go from East Beach.
So to be different, my group will meet at 7.30am at Vieja Valley School. Last week we did some tempo and hills at a little quicker pace than normal so we’ll back off just a little, but still get 2 1/2-3 hours in. Depending on the vote at the time we’ll either go out to Goleta and do the 101 to check out how dirty our clean up area is, or we’ll do 15 Sea Ranch repeats ( just kidding)! See you on the road.
Oh one last thing, keep checking Facebook, it’s getting much more us now and we have the sign up there for the Wildflower weekend in March. More about that next week.
The Pres
ps You may get a duplicate of this, I’m trying to make sure everyone gets it, even if you haven’t paid for 2009…..YOU HAVE’NT PAID?? WHAT!!! Get that check in now, you don’t want to miss out on these e-mails, do you?
Tri Club meeting tonight at the Santa Barbara Athletic Club
February 12, 2009
This is a copy of the e-mail sent out yesterday. If you received the e-mail save some time by not going any further, unless of course you didn’t read it yesterday!
I’m sure you already know, but just in case, the meeting will be at The Santa Barbara Athletic Club at 520 Castillo St ( across from the DMV), please follow the link http://www.wcaclubs.com/club/scripts/section/section.asp?NS=SB and go half way down the page on the right hand side. You will see a link to Guest Waiver. If you are not a member you need to complete this waiver and bring it with you, completed. The other alternative is that you wait in line at the front desk for ages waiting for people to complete the form and get checked in. This is the 2009 form, you need to do it even though you may have completed the 2008 one in November. Help us all to get through the line quickly!!!
Once you get in the Club, Chris and her team will be set up to take your 2009 membership fee. It’s still the same $75 for an individual and $125 for a family. Our sponsors this year have an individual membership included. Again, to help make the process smoother please go to the Club web site and download the 2009 application, here’s the link to the ” Join Us” page, the application is linked on the right side under membership. This will again help us get your current information, even though you were a member last year. If you have sent your membership in already we should have you down as being paid, if not let Chris know you have already sent your check.
OK now you are checked in, and paid for the year, what’s next???
CLUB KIT:
That’s right, you’ve been asking for it, so now it’s time to deliver. John Herzog, John Nelson, Liz Groom and Andrea Stouffer have been working hard in the off season to deliver a good looking kit that will include bike clothes, race clothes and some fun accessories that go with them. I know we did bike jerseys and tri tops last year, but this expands your options to fully kit yourselves out in our club colors. I’ve attached the design of the bike jersey so you know what you will look like. All the other pieces will have the same design or a part of it. Arm Warmers for example may just have the logo. We have been successful in soliciting ‘Kit’ sponsors who’s donation will be used to offset some of the cost of the kit. John Nelson should have the costs when you get there on Thursday in the meantime here is a copy of a note from him:
Hello All:
The fit kits were delivered to me today. I have them and will bring them to the meeting. There are a lot of items and I will definitely need help on Thursday night setting up the samples and keeping the process of people trying on different items, etc. organized. I have fit kits for both the cycling kit and the triathlon racing kits (tops and bottoms). So, it might be good, if possible, to have the digital example of the race kit too.
I will have order forms for everyone to fill out.
Dave — Yes, mention in your e-mail that members should come with checkbooks in hand. Not only is this their duty as club members, but it’s their duty as Americans — we’ve got to spend to keep the economy going! 
Also, might be good to remind all that orders must be in no later than Feb 27th!
So you will have an opportunity to try on the examples of the items because this will be done on an order basis. You try it on, you like the design, you like the price, you pick your items, you fill out an order form and you write a check. The Club will NOT be ordering stock items for future purchase, we will only order what YOU order and pay for. Bring your check book to avoid disappointment.
The Club will not make any money from the Club Kits, you pay the net cost after we deduct the money from sponsors. This is similar to the way the ‘roadie clubs’ do it. Our intention is to keep this kit and design for at least a couple of years and allow reordering in 2010.
Talking about sponsors, we have nearly finished approving this years applications for sponsorship. You’ll be pleased to know my sponsor committee of John Nelson and John Herzog have been very successful in standardizing our program and maximizing the sponsor opportunities so you will be part of a financially healthy Club that gives great value for your membership.
This year we will be giving away a very nice quality technical running shirt to each member thanks to our sponsors. So when you get a chance please thank and support:
Renewing sponsors, Brian O’Connor, Attorney: Bruce at Hazards: East Beach Grill: Cathedral Oaks Athletic Club: Santa Barbara Athletic Club: Mike at Elite Performance: John Nelson: Jay at Outfooters: Santa Barbara Running: Bob Kemp at Village Properties and new this year, Bill’s Copy Shop ( Sandy Roberts ), Cottage Hospital ( because of the crash support we gave them last year), The Eagle Inn and Sue and Mike McDonald with Zizzo’s Coffee Shop. We are still working with a couple of last years sponsors so may have one more.
So you ordered you Club Kit, filled your plate full of fine Mexican Food and finally sat down to check out the pictures from last year, courtesy of Stuart Sato and our photographers, what else could their be?
Well this months program is from within. Our meeting in November was cut short by the Tea Fire so I have asked four of our award recipients to come back and talk briefly about last years season. The successes and failures, their training techniques and maybe some tips for 2009. I’ve also asked them to tell us what they will be doing this year and why. So sit back and enjoy Kyle Visin, Sarah Mandes, Andrea Stouffer and Fred Maggiore.
Wow!!! What a lot going on.
Finally just wanted to invite as many people as I can to join Saturday’s 8.00am ride….AT 7.30AM. That’s right I’ve split the difference in the hope that we can get both groups together for a special ride. We’ve been invited to meet at Zizzo’s Coffee Shop 370 Storke Rd in Goleta and finish there for breakfast. Mike and Sue will explain tomorrow, but I know they have created a breakfast burrito for us and will provide drip coffee to wash it down. This will be their way of saying come to the Tri Club.
This week we’ll do some hills, so out through UCSB to the bike path and then up Gwyne ( parallel to Patterson) to Cathedral Oaks Rd. Then it’s up Old San Marcos and back, then out along Foothill to Cheltenham, then Tunnell to Las Cnoas, back down the other side of Las Canoas to Mountain, down to Foothill again and then down San Roque to Las Positas to the beach. Back to Goleta through Hope Ranch and UCSB.
We will still try and maintain a modest pace and do some re-grouping so we should have something for everyone. This may be the last chance to get in a social Club Ride before we start our early season race training. So hopefully we can get you to ’step outside the box’ and ride with the Club this Saturday.
That’s it ‘War and Peace’ Tri Club style!!!
The Pres