First CVA Triathlon Club Meeting!

Guess what happened on Thursday? Guess!! Well, maybe the title gives something away. On Thursday, we held the first official “College of Visual Arts Triathlon Club" Meeting!

There were 13 students that showed up, along with 4 more that contacted me who are interested but couldn’t make the first meeting. Of the 17 total students, 8-10 of them are interested in doing a sprint triathlon. There’s one or 2 students that want to train for a half-marathon, a few that want to do a triathlon as a team (we may end up with 1 or 2 teams of 3), and a few that just might come and workout with us over the summer. I’m so excited for this!

We started the meeting off right - we got a keg:

...of ROOT BEER! Yeah, I’m not THAT kind of coach. (Actually, there was a BBQ for the graduating seniors, and they had extra root beer, so they hauled it over to our meeting.)

Here are some students filling in before we started the meeting:

I gave out a 3 page handout (nerd) and showed a 30 slide PowerPoint (SUPER nerd) and we talked about what we’d be doing over the next 12 weeks to get ready for a sprint triathlon. During the meeting, I couldn’t tell if I was overwhelming them or getting them excited about training. But when everyone was standing around afterwards, I kept hearing, “I just feel like going for a run!” or “Man, now I want to dust of my bike and go for a long ride!” I think they’re PUMPED!! Here were a few of them standing around afterwards:

So we’re all meeting on Wednesday morning for our first group workout: a warm up, some stretching, a 2+ mile run, and discussion of training plans. Pharmie and I were flipping through our triathlon books last night, and I think she found our training plan: we’re going to use Michael Finch’s book Triathlon Training. They have a basic 11 week sprint triathlon plan. (The bike is a little short compared to the race we’re doing, so I think we’ll supplement our bike workouts with Finch’s Olympic distance training plans.)

We’ll see what this summer brings! OK, off to work on our porch remodel.

p.s. Oh, and don’t forget: “Team Happy Pants” is reuniting for the first time this year to go for the gold at the Gear West Duathlon this Sunday. Again, like last week, I’ll be concentrating on getting some solid run workouts in!