Hill Workouts

Spring isn't being too cooperative, but we ARE going to have our first hill workout tonight!  We'll ride from Rochester Cycling at 6pm and use the Fox Valley hill.  More details are on the Events page

Boston Marathon

With the terrible news of the bombing at the Boston Marathon today we are thinking of all of our fellow athletes and their friends and families.  There were many local runners at the race.  We have heard that all of the TriRochester as well as Team R.E.D. members at the race are ok.

Triathlon 101 Class - 4/11/13 - RESCHEDULED

Rochester Community Ed has cancelled all classes for Thursday, April 11th due to weather.  Unfortunately, that affects our triathlon class scheduled for tonight.  We have rescheduled for next week.

New Date:  Thursday April 18th, 2013 at 6:30pm

Location:  Northrop Community Education Center

2013 Season Kickoff Party

When:  Saturday, April 6th, 2013 at 6pm

Where: Rochester Cycling, 1211 7th St NW, Rochester

It's time for our annual tradition of celebrating the start of the upcoming season.  The TriRochester season kickoff party is a great time to come and meet other club members, the new board, and win some prizes!

• We'll provide the pizza and soft drinks/water.  Feel free to bring other food or beveages.
• There will be many great door prizes for members.
• Members get an extra special 20% discount on Rochester Cycling merchandise during the party (excluding bikes).
• We will have TriRochester race uniforms available to try on and buy.
• Membership gifts and onsite membership registration will be available.
• Friends and Family are welcome.

St. Patrick's Day Races - 2013

We had members racing in three “Lucky” races over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The Lucky Green 5k was here in Rochester, the Get Lucky 7k was in Minneapolis, and the Get Lucky Half marathon was in St. Paul. As luck would have it, it wasn’t quite as warm this year compared to last – about 20 degrees in the Twin Cities at race time. Road conditions were a bit icy and slushy. The two Get Lucky races – especially the 7k – were huge, so there wasn’t a lot of chatting with other members going on, but there was no shortage of green clothes and crazy costumes to keep you entertained.

Name	Race	Total	Age Group	Overall
Mario Minelli	Lucky Green 5k	0:18:16	1	3/105
Cathy Torgerson	Lucky Green 5k	0:30:12	2	50/105
Andy Koch	Get Lucky 7k	0:40:18	396/1052	1577/9815
Amber Aslakson	Get Lucky 7k	0:53:03	2446/3255	7512/9815
Andrea Lloyd	Get Lucky 7k	0:57:29	1307/1617	8409/9815
Emily Franck	Get Lucky 7k	0:40:39	381/3255	1717/9815
Jim VanOosten	Get Lucky 7k	0:39:25	44/217	1264/9815
Pattie Ekman	Get Lucky 7k	0:46:53	672/1617	5030/9815
Jeremy Ekman	Get Lucky 7k	0:46:52	752/1052	5011/9815
Ann Moyer	Get Lucky Half	1:45:34	34/357	414/2663
Joe Moyer	Get Lucky Half	1:33:26	22/192	97/2663
Andrew Becker	Get Lucky Half	1:32:58	8/156	87/2663

Gadget Seminar - 3/21/13

Swim Gadgets, Bike Gadgets, Run Gadgets, Training Gadgets and other tools -- Come learn about them all!

We are holding our first-ever gadgetry seminar for club members on March 21st.  The presentation will cover a wide variety of electronics and other tools that can help you swim, bike, and run faster, train smarter, be safer, or just help you have more fun.  Come find out about gadgets you might be considering, already own, but may not use to their full potential, or may not have even heard of before.

When:  Thursday, March 21st at 6pm

Where: Mayo High School

More info: Check th forum and email

Monthly Social - 2/28/13

UPDATE:  Socail will start at 7:30 due to state hockey finals in Rochester.

It's time once again for our monthly get-together!  This Thursday at 6pm is our monthly social at Glynner's Pub.  Come hang out and talk about planning for the upcoming tri-season.  New to the club, or thinking of joining?  We'd love to meet you!  Already joined or renewed for 2013? We will have member gifts on hand.  Good news for all of you who chose the "TBD" member gift.  It is no longer to-be-determined and you can get yours on Thursday.  This year we have a 14oz stainless steel double walled travel mug.

Rock Climbing Outing

Thanks to Prairie Walls Climbing Gym here in Rochester, we are going to have a club indoor climbing outing.  The date is set for February 27th, at 7pm.  This is a great opportunity to try some new crosstraining with fellow club members.  Andy is orgainizing the event, so contact him if you are interested in going.  See the forum or your email for more details.

Bike Trainer Workouts

Tired of riding by yourself in your basement?  Bring your bike and trainer and come ride with fellow TriRochester members on Tuesday evenings in February and March.  We are starting our indoor trainer sessions this week!  There will be a ride leader to take everyone through the suggested workout.  It's a great opportunity to get in a challenging ride with friends and can save you from one more made-for-tv movie.  Details can be found here.  Hope to see you there!

Update on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 7:56PM by Admin

Update on Trainer Workouts --

We are going to push the start time back to 6:30pm starting this week to hopefully fit better with peoples' schedules.  AND, we have arranged for a low-cost trainer rental option.  So if you don't have a trainer, you can sitll bring your bike and ride with us!

Climb the Clinic 2013

Reported by Mario Minelli

TriRochester members started the year off with a bit of stair-climbing. The annual Climb the Clinic race was held on January 19, 2013. This was the 3rd Annual Climb The Clinic—a timed stair climbing race up 4 of Mayo’s tallest buildings in Rochester: Mayo, Siebens, Plummer, and Stabile.  Each building was separately timed using timing mats set up on tables just outside of the starting floor and upon exiting the stairwell on the finishing floor.  Think mouse pads rather than the mats you’re used to running over in a standard running race or tri.   We wore the timing chips on our wrists and just swiped over the pad and took off.  
What was nice is that we were able to run the buildings in any order we chose and could take as much or as little time as we wanted going from building to building—the time in between did not count towards your overall time.  Running them in any order and taking as much time in between makes it sound easy, but depending on how you approach it, that could add more strategizing (and pain) even if you’re there to just get some exercise and not necessarily race it.  Either way, you have to do 60+ floors so deciding how you do them can make a difference.  A little rest in between is good, but too much and you might start to stiffen up, lose the adrenaline rush and have to work it up again, or just lose incentive to go to the next building.  
Joe and Ann Moyer and I went from building to building together—taking the elevators to the bottom, then wandering over to the next building to feel the burn all over again.  To keep it simple we did the buildings in the same order I did them in last year:  Stabile (14 floors), Mayo (20), Plummer (14), Siebens (15).  I think we all agreed that running stairs is about as painful as it gets with regards to racing—at this time of year.   Overall they had a pretty good turn-out, things went pretty smooth, and they even had results up by the end of the day.  I was told they had about 125 pre-registered participants with over 150 altogether.  The event was organized by the Mayo Fellows Association and was a fund-raiser for Team Winter.

Ann Moyer was the 2nd overall female, but 1st  female resident.  
Mario Minelli was the 2nd male overall.  
Other TriRochester members are listed below.
10. Joe Moyer
28. Shaun Palmer
55. Sonja Kranz
80. Bruce Costigan

Split times (per building), and overall results are posted here:
http://mtecresults.com/race/show/1279/2013_Climb_the_Clinic-Individual_Overall