Run in the park.

Sunday morning turned out to be a great fall morning for a run, and the newest member of the TARGETRAINING family, Brett Jones (pictured to the left) took full advantage by competing in his first road race. The New York Marathon Kickoff, a 5 mile race in central park, sponsored by Poland Spring, had a field of 6472 racers. Brett finished the race in the top 8% of all racers in the field! Congratulations Brett on a great start to your racing career. Expect many more races to come for him, and if you haven't met Brett then please stop by the Strength & Conditioning facility introduce yourself and welcome him to the TT family.

I also decided that it would be a good day to run and entered into the Children's Place 5k in Milford. The race course was great, and even though my legs were still sore going in I started the race well. After getting dropped by the lead pack I settled into my own pack not to far of the pace. This is where I must appologize to those who were following me. What happened next is
what some people around TT call "pulling a Max" in rememberance of the wrong turn that Max took in the Minute Man race while trying to chase down the leader. Well i proceeded to miss the next turn in the course by nobodys fault but my own, and to make the story short it certainly was a great day to run, so great that I decided to lead a group on what would turn out to be closer to a 3.75 Mile run instead of the 5K. All in all it was a good race, and I returned home to relax and watch Dom in the Xterra World Championships on Xterra TV.

The Run After the storm: Trail Run Series #4 recap

After a wet and rainy Saturday night, TARGETRAINING trail runners were greeted with yet another beautiful Sunday morning for the 4th edition of our trail run series. Today’s run was a repeat of last week’s 5 mile course at Devil's Den Park. Despite the heavy rains from the night before, trail conditions were fantastic as fast times were set on the picturesque course. Next week we will tackle what is sure to be the most challenging venue of the entire series at Trout Brook Park in Weston. If you haven’t hit the trails with us yet this season, take the leap and join us for a morning of leaf-crunching, mud-stomping fun.

Max Veiga 38:17
Dave Booth 40:21
Bob Schoff 40:59
Chris Bartlett 52.37
Mike Wallace 1:00
Lauren Nadler 1:13
Eneas Freyre “course sweeper”

Off-road Triathlon World Championships -- Sunday October 26th in Maui!

Dom Gillen is in Hawaii. Not on vacation. It is 6 hours behind us there, and the race starts at 8 AM Hawaii time, or 2 PM our time.

In the words of the host website:
"At 9:00AM on Sunday, October 26th, a maxed-out field of 600 international dirt lovers will embrace the annual challenge of XTERRA's most grueling course - and in the ensuing hours put their mental and physical toughness up against Mother Nature's arsenal of sun, sand, water, kiawe and lava. When it's all over, they'll don some of the weirdest and most wonderful costumes you've ever seen and dance the night away at what is surely triathlon's greatest after party.

Athletes from more than 20 countries and 40 states will gather in Maui - having competed all season long for the right to be at the XTERRA Global Tour's culminating event. What begins as a gathering of relative strangers end as a family whose friendship defies boundaries of title and expertise and unites them all in the challenge of Man vs. Mother Nature.
$130,000 in pro prize money is up for grabs and for age groupers the title of World Champion earns them a one-of-a-kind XTERRA World Champion jersey.

All the action will be filmed for a one-hour nationwide TV special, and on race day, you can log-on to XTERRA.TV for live coverage from Maui. "

"Tri"ing for cancer -- coming in June 2009 to Connecticut

Please check out this new, incredible Half Ironman event coming up next June, the Revolution 3 Triathlon.

From the site:
"In the races premier event, the athletes competing in Revolution 3 will be doing so in an unprecedented atmosphere catered to families and spectators. This fun, “family friendly” environment will be sure to leave the athlete as well as the children coming back again and again.

In addition to the age-group and professional events, the weekends activities will include live music, live video coverage, GPS tracking of all athletes, as well as moon bounces, thrilling amusements park rides and wild water activities for children of all ages. Also new this year, will be the Revolution 3 Triathlon Race Exposition."

"Revolution3 Triathlon is proud to announce our association with The V Foundation for Cancer Research. Revolution3 will donate $10 of every race entry fee to the V Foundation.
Additional Program Options: Revolution3 has set aside 25 race entries for individuals who agree to raise a minimum of $500 on behalf of The V Foundation. Program participants will receive a comp race entry. "

The founders of the race, Heather and Todd Golnick, are raising money for friends who lost their daughter Payton Wright to a rare form of brain cancer when she was only 5 years old. Heather is a world class triathlete (5 time Ironman winner). She runs a cool triathlon coaching company out of Florida and a camp for women in February. I don't know what inspired her to do the race in CT but it's pretty cool stuff.

We are going to compete there as a club as well as enter our pro triathlete Dom Gillen (and maybe Jordan Rapp) into the event.

Looking back at the season: A nice result

A TARGETRAINING client, Rob, who did pretty darn well in a pretty darn tough race in Darien, Connecticut.

Rob rides a Cervelo fast, runs well, and still also has time for business and family.

He's a good guy, too.

And that picture with his podium placing is a great way to cap off an excellent season.

Congrats Rob!