Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Heading into 2010



It has been a quiet few weeks here at OSB central, as many of our athletes take a well needed break from regular training plans and emails telling them to get out of bed and go work out. We are looking forward to 2010 as another great year both personally and athletically. Some highlights with our 2009 athletes:

- 5 first-time IMers
- 2 70.3 World Champ qualifiers
- 1 Boston Marathon qualifier
- 1 Hawaii Ironman finisher
- 3rd age group Duathlon Worlds
- Several NCTS and FS Series top 3 age group / masters overall

Bri has been fortunate to work with a small group of really motivated athletes and has had a lot of fun coaching them. It is nice watching her become more confident in her ability to coach people successfully.

We're going to run several Powerstroke clinics again throughout the season (every 2-3 months) and will be hosting our Winter training camp in late February (there is currently 1 open bedroom in the shared beach house) and another weekend training camp in Raleigh in August.

We signed back on as series coaching sponsor for the North Carolina Triathlon Series and will be racing / attending a number of these events throughout the season. There are 25 total racing days, which is a bunch, so you won't see us at all of them. I am planning to race 6 of them - Belews Lake, White Lake Sprint 2, Kure Beach, Stumpy Creek, Lake Norman, and Jordan Lake Sprint.

We've been selling a few Powerstroke DVDs each week since making them available for sale. I hope to keep this up indefinitely. There will be a couple of production upgrades to the material coming soon, but if you buy one now you're receiving the same content. Basically we have a chance to re-shoot the lecture in a professional studio with better lighting and equipment in January. It will be a prettier presentation.

My goals for 2010:
low 18 5k
Host 8 to 10 Powerstroke and open water clinics throughout the year
3 or 4 top 5 overall local sprint triathlon results
Low 2 hour olympic distance at St Anthonys Tri in April
Top 5 Triple T NC individual
Save money / pay off all debt except mortgage & car payment
Put together a 100 +/- page training manual I can give to new athletes as a guide and-or sell as a standalone book.

3 comments:

Steve said...

I didn't hit the e-mail back response thingy. I am pretty sure you and I see eye to eye politically. People will cheat the system, and yeah for those of us trying to make ends meet without freebies can make us angry.

You do an honest days labor for an honest days wages. I do too. I'll take gratification in that I guess.

BTW, I bought your DVD when I read Beth's site. I am pretty sure it will help me improve. It better, cause I suck.

Good Luck this year. I will be reading. :-)

martygaal said...

Cool, thanks Steve, hope you find the DVD useful. Happy Holidays!

Steve said...

Ha ha!! I forgot to hit the e-mail thingy again. How funny. Anyway had my first swim back after a couple weeks off. I am out of swimming shape for sure, but I think it helped. I felt better about my swim, that is for sure.

Happy Holidays to you too.