Subject: RE: Tri club? I'm in a club and on their board. We have organized training and also piggyback off of our sponsors organized rides and runs. The reality is that it really breaks down along training schedules. Where the club is very useful is in bringing together people on the same schedules and with similar abilities to be able to train outside of the club organized sessions. That being said, most of us doing long course also have coaches, as the club is not for coaching. We are starting a 'try-a-tri' this year for new triathletes, and our more experienced members will buddy up with them and help them through their first race. A great example of how our club works is the Saturday OWS, which is not organized by us but by one of the local triathlon coaches (who is also one of our sponsors). Pretty much all of us show up, split up to swim whatever distance we are training for, regroup to eat, then break up again into smaller pace and distance based groups, and bike. Our club decided we would be more social-activity based this year. There are some common races a lot of us wind up doing (i.e. first tri of the year and Lake Placid), so we bring the BBQ and tent, and a lot of families also come to party. We also do a regular pub night out. |