is there worcester tri team?

we haven't been able to find one (we've been in Worc for 5 years) - closest are Landry's (Westboro), and Blackstone Valley Human Performance (Grafton, but really a coaching business)

We've joked about starting one.

What kind of club you want to be. Welcoming and diverse or exclusive?
Starting a club is A LOT work and takes CASH (insurance, legal, etc).  We started Tri-New England here in Prov/Southeastern MA this past Winter and it has been awesome. Very active core membership.

Sponsorship by an active bike shop has worked out well too. In addition to the much needed cash to start and maintain a club, Providence Bike sends one of their tri guys to run a well attended weekly TT in Scituate,RI. Also, having USAT coaches as part of the leadership has significantly impacted the direction of the club and the clinics that we have been able to offer.

Another new group Buzzards Bay has started up in the Dartmouth area but I haven't really heard that much about them.

I think that welcoming and inclusive is much more what I'd want to be a part of, especially since I'm slow.  and injured.

Do you think the first step is a general interest meeting?  Then we could see who's really interested, and who has time/energy/bandwith to work on the startup tasks (looking for sponsors, investigating insurance/costs, etc).

I'm more than happy to figure out and set up a meeting, if people will help me brainstorm things like place (we could host at our house, but if we're going to advertise this in different places, I'd prefer to have it somewhere public... that might be less weird for some people anyway) and time (now-ish?  this fall after the season is done?  spring?).

Thoughts?

It is getting a little harder maintaining training by myself. Started off in the spring for some 5k's, 5 and 10 milers and a Half Marathon. My primary running partners are both injured and now that I have moved on to Tri Training it has been harder to push myself. My wife is great she will drive me to the lake watch me swim then take my wetsuit/gear home while I ride the bike home. Been swimming at Comet Pond in Hubbardston since it is really clean and is 14.6 miles away from my house. Also been swimming with a tri training group at Lake Chauncy that was setup for the Westboro Sprint although they have a coach and I am not part of the group. I just kind of meetup with some of the members early on the weekends. Much better to swim/bike with a group.

pardon my ignorance of geography of Ma., but here is the regional link from USAT to see if any of the official clubs are close enough to you

http://www.usatriathlon.org/resources/for-clubs/find-a-club

also, I know that latching on to an established club can help with insurance obligations for smaller clubs

Seems like a few of the closer ones are not clubs per se, but nutritonists, trainers and bloggers.

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