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St Louis Triathlon Club

February 2012
Greetings!

 
It has been a mild Winter and most of you are getting a great start on triathlon training.  See information and links below about all the club and sponsor offerings for February (and beyond).

Happy Training,
St. Louis Tri Club

Club News 

 

Discount codes! 

A word about discounts:

Current 2012 St Louis Tri Club members are eligible for tri club sponsor discounts. Having the discounts and codes means that you agree to not share discounts with non-members, family, friends, etc. In most instances, the sponsor or race director will check names against our member roster. Please do not abuse this benefit and potentially ruin it for everyone else.

 

Here is a list of other tri club discounts!

 

Below are discount codes for Nippy Niner, Truffle Shuffle, Eads Bridge Duathlon and the New Town Triathlon!  Thank you sponsors!
 

Club and Sponsor Events

 

Saturday, February 4th (9am)-Cross country workouts on the official championship course!  Brought to you by Big River.  Sign up for the workouts at the link.

 

Sunday, February 5th -Big Shark Nippy Niner - a nine mile (15K) paved, gravel and off-road trail run that begins on a gentle gravel road leading to the historic confluence point of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and then returns on the undulating River's Edge Trail.  $5 off discount code is 'STLTRI'.  Must be a 2012 member to take advantage of this great offer!  

 

Tuesdays, February 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th- Tri Club Forest Park run - This run will loop Forest Park (about 6 miles) with the option for more or less as desired. We'll begin and end our runs at Kayaks the last Tuesday of every month (Feb 28th) and have coffee/drinks and snacks after the run. If it is not the last Tuesday of the month, all runs will begin and end at the Visitor's Center (Feb 7, 14, 21) in Forest Park. 
E-mail groupevents@stlouistriclub.com if you have any questions or want to let them know you will be attending (not mandatory).

 

Friday, February 10th - USA Cross Country Championships: Pre-Race Pasta Dinner featuring Olympic Marathoners Ryan Hall and Desi Davila!!
Dinner at 6:00PM and Panel Discussion at 7:15PM
SLUH - 4970 Oakland Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Register here.
 
Saturday, February 11th - USA Cross Country Championships
Central Ball Fields, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
 
Saturday, February 11th, 9am - USA Cross Country Championship: Community Race
Central Ball Fields, Forest Park, St. Louis, MO
 
Sunday, February 12th - Big Shark's Run for Chocolate!

 

Sunday, Feb 12th - St. Louis Tri Club Social -I Heart Triathlon

Celebrate your love of triathlon by joining us for drinks at Morgan Street Brewery (721 N. 2nd, St. Louis) on Sunday February 12 from 11am - 1pm (see the recent evite for all the details).  We've timed and located this social within walking distance of the start/finish of Big Shark's Run for the Chocolate 5KRSVP on evite or to social@stlouistriclub.com by February 9th.

See social events link for more information about earning tri club spirit points!

 

Wednesday, February 15th - Big River Shoe Buy Order Due Date!  Get those orders in!!  See form for the complete information.

 

Wednesday, February 15th - St. Louis Tri Club Monthly Meeting

THE HEIGHTS 8001 Dale Avenue, Richmond Heights, MO 63117
"Snacky Hour" at 6.30p, Meeting at 7.00p

Calling all foam rollers! Please join us as we learn from Dr. Matthew Lytle and Tim Davila of Precision Health Group! Matt and Tim will discuss swimmer's shoulder as well as the means and methods of foam rolling. If you have a foam roller, please bring it to the meeting so you can try out their techniques right away! Also, they will take any questions you have about keeping your body healthy for the entire 2012 season.


Saturday, February 18th - Big River's Truffle Shuffle 4 mile run
50% discount for 2012 Tri club members.  Tri Club Discount Code is 'TRICLUB2012'.  
Want to earn points for the volunteer race series?  Sign up to volunteer for Truffle Shuffle here.
 
Saturday, February 25th, 10am - Castlewood Cup 15K 
Registration is full.  Race has reached capacity.
Sign up to volunteer at this link.

 

Sunday, February 26th - 8am - St. Louis Tri Club Postal Swim

See how many yards you can complete in an hour!

This group event is at Whispering Hills pool.

E-mail grouptraining@stlouistriclub.com to sign up for an 8am or 9am slot as a swimmer or a lap counter. Include in the e-mail if you plan on partnering up with someone as their lap counter. The lap counter will get total distance and lap splits for the swimmer during the hour swim. 

 

Saturday, March 10th (8am) - Daylight Savings Time Reminder Run on Grant's Trail.  The trail is an out and back with a  gentle slope.  Length of trail is 8 mile.
You can do any distance, then join us for refreshments after your run.
Start the run from the LARGER parking lot on the north side of Hwy 44
Directions at group events link.

 

Sunday, April 22nd - Big Shark Eads Bridge Du- New Race!
1.5 mile run - 10 mile bike - 1.5 mile run
$5 off discount code is 'STLTRI'. 
Can't race, but want to volunteer?  Volunteer sign up link here.  This race is part of the St. Louis tri club volunteer series.  

Saturday, May 5 - Vino Fondo 

Just $5 for St. Louis Tri Club members!
 
July 14th and 15th - King Orthopedic Big Shark New Town Triathlon
$5 off discount code is 'STLTRI'. 

Weekly Events 

Monday nights at 6:00pm - Big River Running South City or OFallon run

 

Tuesdays at 5:30pm - Forest Park - A new weekly run!  This run will loop Forest Park (about 6 miles) with the option for more or less as desired.  We'll begin and end our runs at Kayaks the last Tuesday of every month and have coffee/drinks and snacks after the run. If it is not the last Tuesday of the month, all runs will begin and end at the Visitor's Center in Forest Park. 
 

Thursday morning 5:50am Forest Park run - meet in the parking lot across from the Visitor's Center. Runners do 1-2 loops. Distance and pace will vary with attendance. The run is always counter-clockwise from the visitor's center, so you also have the option of running clockwise from Skinker to join us. This starts in the dark so lights and/or reflectives are recommended. 
  
Saturdays - Rides from Big Shark West, Big Shark Urban and Big Shark in the Loop!
 
Sundays at 10am - Yoga at Little Shark: Power Vinyassa every Sunday morning from 10 AM to 11:10 AM $12.00; Led by Kathy Venderselt RYT CPT. Stop by after your morning run, before going to Brunch, or as a way to get your Sunday started!
10 class punchcard for $100 or drop in for $12/class.
Email natalie@bigshark.com for further questions.  
 
Sunday Whispering Hills Swims- The St. Louis Tri Club has reserved the pool from 8am - 10am every Sunday.  You can bring your own training plan for the day.   Pool will be closed on December 25th and January 1st.  
 
Sundays at 8am - IronBrick group run from Kaldi's Demun.
E-mail ironbricktri@gmail.com to be added to the e-mail chain for any location and/or timing changes.

More links!

Happy Training!

St Louis Triathlon Club