The 1st Message from our New President:

11/24/06

Well I have learned my lesson: never suggest to Patty Shafer that you can help out and then show up late to the year end party, because you might get elected president. So the lesson here is always be on time or early to tri club parties.

For those of you guys that have never met me here's the short story. I have been married almost 20 years to Candi. We have three girls, Carrie is a senior at Rochester, Madeline is in second and Hailey is in first.

I have been doing tri's for about 9 years, mainly sprints and a few 1/4's. I am a middle to back of the pack racer, so that's the short version.

Since being elected I have had a chance to run some ideas by a few people and they told me to pursue to them so I am throwing them out to you guys and see what you think.

I was at the Running Center the other night and we talked about doing a night down there where team members could come in and get fitted for the right kind of running shoe. Some of you may have already done this but for new members and or people you are trying to get involved I thought this would be a good meeting. We could also have some of you experienced runners talk about how to train and get ready for longer races.

I also thought about doing a taping session at the pool. Eisenhower has the window below the water line where we could do some taping of your stroke and let you take it home to compare against some of the talented swimmers we have in the area and use that as a learning tool.

Steve also put this link http://www.gmap-pedometer.com on the site. It is a good way to map out routes. I would love to see some people load up their favorite run and ride routes then forward the links to Steve. I can only go out and back on the Rochester trail so many times before I am looking for some other routes. Here is one of my routes out in Rochester http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=558003 .

I have also had suggestions for some laid back parties. Let me know if you would be interested in doing some of this stuff and I will work with the other officers get some it organized.

That's it for now and I look forward to hearing from you and what you would like to see us do next year.

Charles