Posting elsewhere now...

In an effort to better compartmentalize my life, I'll now be posting exclusively on Facebook for personal posts and http://trithisfresno.blogspot.com for Tri Team stuff... I mix the two too much anyway but this way at least I can 'build a following' for the tri team and not distract them (and keep them!) from my personal life a bit. Thanks for your support of the new location and FOCUS!

Great Kids Camp and first triathlon next weekend!

By all accounts, it was a great three days at the first ever Kids Triathlon Camp in the central valley.

Pictures are here: http://www.kidstricamp.com


10 campers (two of them siblings of my students) participated in swimming, biking, and running. I personally learned that it wasn't that hard to put on a great camp chock-full of skills and fun because it's really just a combination of the past 7 years of my life... (I worked at a summer camp in 2002 and 2003 and have been teaching since 2005.)

My high school students were coaches for the week which was the best part. They did a great job disseminating knowledge and I really only did the main teaching for an hour or so a day - the rest of it was all my students teaching their cadre of kids! That's how it's supposed to work! Rock climbing in the afternoon was a lot of fun too and great to show the kids something different!

We are hoping to offer more camps (as a side profit thing for Tri-This!) this summer and next spring break for sure too. Possibly going to other locations throughout the state to help spur on development of more school-based programs.

This coming weekend is our first big triathlon - the Icebreaker Tri. Because I'm friends with Bill, the race director, he still has my picture from two years ago on there for the water portion. That was my first triathlon and I should have used a wetsuit! Won't make that same mistake next weekend... I'll be running tomorrow morning and probably the following week as well so I don't lose to my students this time around!

We'll also be volunteering at the local Millerton Triathlon on Saturday morning... should be a trip with about 7 kids (two relay teams and one individual) so fairly straightforward and more importantly, cheap... we're still waiting for the IRS to get back to us regarding 501c (3) so until then I'm keeping track of expenses and will get reimbursed!

Visalia Triathlon

I wasn't going to do any triathlons this year, but I couldn't resist the super sprint Visalia Tri this past weekend.

I was first out of the water, had some mechanical problems on the bike (my gear cables seemed to be malfunctioning and refused to... shift...) but still had fun and did ok, and the run was fine/i passed some people/got passed too.

http://onyourmarkevents.com/results.asp?id=2171

the name is Brandon Dorman, age group 25-29.

Awesome race, some kids came along too and we handed out flyers for the Splash and Dash, Kids Tri Camp and Kids Triathlon too. good times.

The Kids Tri Camp is going great this week; I'll post a full review when it's done on wednesday!