DATE: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
TIME: 7:00 to 8:00 P.M. (snacks served at 6:30 pm)
PLACE: Room 390 South Building Emily Carr University 1399 / 1400 Johnson St, on Granville Island. There is lots of free parking

This is the notice of the Leading Edge Triathlon Club 2009 AGM. Agendas can be requested via e.mail if you didn’t receive one

We are looking for new executive members so if are interested please contact, Bronwyn (bronwyn underscore masson at yahoo dot com) before or at the meeting.

Hope to see you there.

LETC Executive

…need we say more?

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Well, that was it for the 2009 LETC triathlon season! And what an awesome season it was!

There are even a few brave souls soldiering on into the fall for late October events in Clearwater, FLA and Perth, Australia. For those who suffer from separation anxiety, the Thursday running sessions will continue on until December and a fall run training schedule should be out soon.  Remember to sign up for fall running races such as the Turkey Trot 10 k on Thanksgiving Monday, the Fall Classic 10 k and half marathon and the Haney to Harrison relay.

“THANK YOU!” to all of our members who supported the club, each other and all we represent at LETC.

We will be following up with everyone on what you liked, did not like and wished we could have done.

Not to overlook our Year End costume party! This year’s theme might be “What not to wear to a triathlon” or something better if you get your ideas posted in comments to this post!

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ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2009) — Have you ever sat down to work on a crossword puzzle only to find that afterwards you haven’t the energy to exercise? Or have you come home from a rough day at the office with no energy to go for a run?

“Cognitive tasks, as well as emotional tasks such as regulating your emotions, can deplete your self-regulatory capacity to exercise,” says Kathleen Martin Ginis, associate professor of kinesiology at McMaster University, and lead author of the study.

Martin Ginis and her colleague Steven Bray used a Stroop test to deplete the self-regulatory capacity of volunteers in the study. (A Stroop test consists of words associated with colours but printed in a different colour. For example, “red” is printed in blue ink.) Subjects were asked to say the colour on the screen, trying to resist the temptation to blurt out the printed word instead of the colour itself.

“After we used this cognitive task to deplete participants’ self-regulatory capacity, they didn’t exercise as hard as participants who had not performed the task. The more people “dogged it” after the cognitive task, the more likely they were to skip their exercise sessions over the next 8 weeks. “You only have so much willpower.”

Still, she doesn’t see that as an excuse to let people loaf on the sofa.

“There are strategies to help people rejuvenate after their self-regulation is depleted,” she says. “Listening to music can help; and we also found that if you make specific plans to exercise—in other words, making a commitment to go for a walk at 7 p.m. every evening—then that had a high rate of success.”

She says that by constantly challenging yourself to resist a piece of chocolate cake, or to force yourself to study an extra half-hour each night, then you can actually increase your self-regulatory capacity.

“Willpower is like a muscle: it needs to be challenged to build itself,” she says.

The study was made possible through funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

WEDNESDAY BIKE: 6:30 pm Highbury @4th for some character building hills
THURSDAY RUN: 6:30 pm Kit’s Community Centre for some more character building hills…
SATURDAY BIKE: 9 am from Bean Around the World on Cornwall for uncoached long easy ride
SUNDAY SWIM: 9 am at Sasamat Lake for the last open water swim of 09 for LETC
SUNDAY RUN: after the swim or 9 am from Jericho East for those not swimming at Sasamat

Hey all- Kit’s Beach for an open water swim at 9 am- long run after for those willing!

Meet on ocean side of Watermark / lifeguard station.

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Its been two years since LETC stormed to a win at H₂H in the open mixed category and had three other teams entered.

Soooo, on Sunday November 7th its time to line up again at this great team building race!

Check out the H₂H link here;

If you’d like to run with the LETC peeps, contact Choppy as he has stupidly kindly volunteered to take this on for 2009.

BTW Stephanie would like a GPS for stage one this time…

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LETC had a rockin’ weekend around BC with a whack of podium finishes at BC Provincial Championships and on da island at the Sooke Half-iron!

HIGHLIGHTS…

Martina is BC Olympic Distance Champion! Coach Andrew was 2nd overall and won M4549 after having one of his career best dream races where everything clicked. Adrienne, Rebecca and Brenda were also crowned BC Champions with Tall Jeff, Clarke, Penny and Bronwyn taking second in their categories. Clayton rounded out the Provicial Championship podiums by LETC with his third place finish. Jody just missed the podium thanks to a rather unequal enforcement of the little enforced rule that does not permit altering of the race number.  Her 2 minute penalty dropped her to 4th- so LETCers beware! don’t alter that number without written approval by the head official!

Special congrats to Christine who did her first open water Olympic distance race!

In the Sprint Distance event, Rob J continued his love of triathlon with a second overall and second in his category.  Mary won the W6669 category finishing off her season with a great race as did Andrew H who also placed second.

Over on Vancouver Island at the Sooke Half Iron, Aussie Jeff posted an 11 minute PB over the half iron distance while placing third in M4044.  Way to go Jeff!

THIS WEEK…

• Wednesday 6:30 pm 4th and Highbury for easy ride
• Thursday 6:30 pm Kit’s CC
• Saturday 9 am easy ride from Bean Around the World on Cornwall
• Sunday open water swim; Weather dependent

Stephanie Kieffer retained her crown as World Champion in the ITU age group World Championships today in Gold Coast Australia leading from start to finish!

Other LETC results include Amy 19th in W2529, Tina 75th in W3034 and Steph’s little sister Suzanne winning the W3539 category… those Kieffer sisters!

More updates as we get info…

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thanks to Dave T for the snaps!