TARGETRAINING Weekend Schedule 7/24-7/26

Cervelo Demo Day Saturday!
The Cervelo demo truck is back in town! We will have a special Saturday outdoor ride schedule to allow clients to demo these fantastic bikes and get quality TARGETRAINING rides in. These rides will be about
1.5hrs in length and have multiple group ride leaders to accommodate novice to faster paced riders. For those looking to get a long day in the saddle, we encourage you to participate in the standard 6AM ride and then double up with one of the demo rides at 9AM/11AM/1PM.

TARGETRAINING Destination Ride Sunday!
We will be conducting a destination ride on Sunday at 8AM of the Greenwich Tri and Tour de Greenwich courses. We will be meeting at Greenwich High School and will be previewing both courses.

Weekend Schedule Update
There will be no Sunday 8AM TARGETri Session this weekend in lieu of the Greenwich Tri Destination Ride.

Please visit the TARGETRAINING blog page for the latest TT news:
http://targetraining.com/TTBlog.html

Friday:
6:00AM TARGETorque Indoor Cycling Hill Training
6:00AM TARGETough Strength Training
6:00AM TARGETide Open Water Swim (Burying Hill Beach)
9:00AM TARGETour Outdoor Cycling (novice skill ride)
9:00AM TARGETorque Indoor Cycling
9:00AM TARGETKick Kickboxing
10:15AM TARGETYoga Performance Yoga
4:00PM TARGETeen Indoor Cycling
5:00PM TARGETKick Kickboxing

Saturday:
6:00AM TARGETour Outdoor Group Ride
7:30AM TARGETorque Indoor Cycling (suspended for weekend)
9:00AM Cervelo Demo Ride Outdoor Group Ride
11:00AM Cervelo Demo Ride Outdoor Group Ride
1:00PM Cervelo Demo Ride Outdoor Group Ride
12:00PM TARGETeen Sport Performance

Sunday:
8:00AM Destination Ride Greenwich Tri and Tour de Greenwich courses
8:00AM TARGETri Triathlon Session (suspended for the weekend)
8:00AM TARGETour Outdoor Woman's Group Ride
8:00AM TARGETour Outdoor Shootout Ride!
10:00AM TARGETorque Indoor Cycling
10:00AM TARGETPilates
4:00PM TARGETide Open Water Swim (Sherwood Island)

2009 Donovan-Ruhlman Naugatuck Criterium Master's Race Report

Rick, Abdul, Badger, Max L., and Ed lined up at the starting line of the 28 lap event (25 miles).  Unlike the usual rain and thunderstorms that typically occur at this event, the weather was perfect.  We met just before race to discuss strategy, and now all that was left was to execute the plan as best that we could.  The course was littered with potholes and manhole covers which took some getting used too.  The team was extremely assertive throughout the race getting into or initiating most, if not all, of the moves.

A few good moves involving Badger, Max. and Adbul looked promising early in the race. However, all were short lived.  A little later Ed attacked the field getting a prime and was off on his own for a little while.  This took some pressure off the rest of the team who could simply sit on and follow wheels.  The field eventually came back together and throughout the race most of the team had a moment or two in a break trying to get something to stick.  Once again, things came back together.

A bit later, and closer to the end, Ed once again got into another move and when he noticed some disorganization up front decided to have a go on his own.  Once he had a little gap, he rode an effort that he felt he could maintain fairly comfortably hoping that a few others would bridge up with more team support in tow.  Eventually Leigh Sorrells, a strong rider from another team, bridged up solo and there were two up front about 15 seconds ahead of the pack.  Leigh had team-mates in the pack that would not chase while he was up front.  Ed didn't want to risk being out-sprinting by this normally much faster guy, so with 3 to go Ed accelerated and was on his own giving it all he had to take the win.  In retrospect, probably would have been better to wait another lap or 2 because Leigh's teammates then picked up the pace significantly and Ed was reeled back in with about 1 lap to go.  Wasn’t a total waste though because this also gave our guys a chance to sit on and rest up for the likely field sprint.  Things were pretty stung out for the last lap and Max gave it a go from way out sensing a good opportunity. Max almost held everyone at bay for the win but was nipped by a couple of riders.  No-doubt he gave it his all as he laid on the ground gasping for air for some time after the finish.

Overall, the team executed very well and fell just short of the victory. But above all, it was fun and we're very proud to be wearing the team colors.

1 Wilson Vasquez  Champion System Racing

2 Johann Burrowes We Stand United (W.S.)

3 Max Lippolis TARGETRAINING 

4 Stephen Gray Bethel Cycle Sport Club 

5 Anthony Taylor CCV - Hotfoot Cycles/Iron Hill Race Teams

6 Raymond Newton Century Road Club Association 

7 Stephan Badger TARGETRAINING 

8 Gary Steinberg Global Locate 

9 Wayne Kirk Mystic Velo Club 

Destination Ride Sunday July, 26th

Greenwich Triathlon and Tour de Greenwich

Bike Course Preview

Sunday, July 26th

35 Miles

Let by Dominic Gillen, winner of the 2008 Greenwich Triathlon

Meet at TARGETRAINING at 8:00 AM or Greenwich HS at 8:30 AM

email dom@targetraining.com

Mossman Race Report

When I signed up for the Mossman Sprint Triathlon, I wasn't really paying attention to the fact that I had the Rhode Island 70.3 exactly one week prior.  I started paying attention when I realized how much the half Ironman kicked my butt! But I still planned on participating in the Mossman and I'm glad I did! By the end of the week, I was actually looking forward to a short, fast race despite still not being 100%. But I gave it all I had yesterday and ended up 2nd overall woman, coming in behind our own Megan Kelly! 

    

When you are as strong a swimmer as Megan, it makes it REALLY hard for others to make up the distance over the remaining 12 mile bike and 5k run. Basically, Megan was out of the water while the rest of us mortals were still rounding the first buoy :).  She came out of the water almost three minutes ahead of me (a 9:15 to my 11:59), maintained her lead with a 1 minute faster bike split (32:36 to my 33:37), and even with my 19:00 5k, I still couldn't catch her (she had a great run as well in 21:19)! Overall, she had a course record crushing 1:04:46 and I had a 1:06:35.  Next head to head for us, the Greenwich Tri on August 2nd!  

Congrats to all the other Targetraining rock stars- 

Jon "Bax" Baxendale was 2nd in his age group, 7th overall! 

Laurie Cizek-Brannigan was 2nd in her age-group (Pascale was actually third overall female, moving Laurie up to 2nd!) and 8th woman overall!  

Oakes Ames won his age group (of course:). 

David Booth was 2nd in his age group and 14th overall (after a crazy Xterra race last weekend!).  Also coming in with great performances were Chris CK Kinney and Cornelia P-H! Way to go Targetraining! Thanks to Mitch West for cheering us on and best of luck to him at Lake Placid next weekend!

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