Skirack Season Kickoff Party

The 3rd Annual Team Season Kickoff Party hosted by Skirack was a big success with nearly all racers present!  This provided a forum to meet & greet new members and new local sponsors.  The team is proud of its talent this season, as well as companies that fuel our individual pursuit with quality products, equipment and services.
Special thanks goes out to the following figures instrumental in the evening's success.

Zandy, Spike, & Roger of Skirack for hosting, providing tour of new triathon related inventory, and for arranging the Zipp/ Quarq guest lecture.

Courtney Kutler of The Edge for sponsoring the catering from Cloud 9 Catering

Mark Elvidge of Metaball- Vermont Nut Free Chocolate for providing samples and presenting background on the post workout recovery products.

Bob Tyzbir, Founder of EPIC, for presenting his company history and introducing his sports nutrition formula.

Meredith Haff of Concept 2 (CTS) for demonstrating the Ergometer machines her company manufactures and discussing the benefits rowing for a triathlete's training schedule

Jared Katz of Black Dog Photography, for shooting the evening and introducing the type of photography projects he specializes in.

In short, the evening got members primed for a racing season now only weeks away.  It strengthened friendships that are the team's core.  Most importantly, it gave each of us an opportunity to break the hectic professional and training schedules and blow off an afternoon workout and j u s t relax!

GMM Team Spin Update

The bodies of Greek Gods & Goddesses are high maintenance!  The winter of 2012 is no exception, and you will find GMM members working out religiously at The Edge and at OnTrack.  The team is rolling into March with more 3 hour group base rides at Ontrack Health & Fitness.  Some rides will have a brick run thrown in- wahoo!  New members like Marty Courcelle, Chris Aher and Michelle Rousseau even picked up great prizes!  GMM has provided leftover IBEX armwarmers, tshirts, headbands and earmuffs to some of these dedicated new athletes.  If you werent there, then you sure missed out on good "trainer times" for sure

 Many more weeks lie between Vermonters and sunny days.  Look for more scheduled team rides and runs on the Upcoming Events link to the right.  There may just be some rewards for all the hard work :)

Also, GMM has finalized the date for the Skirack Season Kickoff Party, so make room for Tuesday, March 27th at 6pm- It is a mandatory event with some great new sponsor-guests!  

Green Mountain Triathlon Camp

New triathlon venture for GMM teammates this year:

GMM members Sean Luitjens and Donna Smyers have joined forces to host the first Green Mountain Triathlon Camp at The Essex Spa and Resort. Guest coaches include several current and former GMM athletes. The camps will be held May 10-13 and May 30-June 3, 2012.  More information can be found at www.greenmountaintricamp.com - Don't miss it!

Turning the Page to Twenty Twelve

2012 Roster is Complete- Upper-case Welcome to new members Keith & Michelle Rousseau, Alex Jasinowski, Marty and Kristen Courcelle, Todd Smith, Glen Howard, Luke Faryniarz, Jeff Schumann, Chris Aher.  We also welcome back formally hombre Dave Kestenbaum who took last year off from team kit ;)  

We are excited so much interest and talent, which paradoxically makes the membership board meeting so difficult.  We are honored to include you, and keep coming back to the simple mission that GMM will remain a community of friends, provide quality benefits /activities, and support the local racing community whenever possible.

Welcome also to three local sponsors!  These companies hail from the Green Mountain State and share an interest in active and healthy lifestyles.  They have invested financially in our racing team, and are committed to sharing our success over upcoming seasons.  We will be hearing more from each of them soon.  Until then, become familiar with their great product and service by surfing over to the right>>>

State of Vermont, Department of Tourism, Montpelier 

Metaball (dba Vermont Nut-Free Chocolates), South Hero 

EPIC (www.epich2o.com), Williston 

The off season brings some well deserved downtime for many endurance athletes.  However not all of our 40 members can be found actually resting.  One of the most colorful surprises this season was seeing Green Mountain Multisport athletes Ray Webster and Angie Defilippi win the 1st Annual RiRa Santa 5k.  You can pick them out of this red & white blur because they finished First Male Santa, and First Female Santa and got a bag of goodies to prove it!

Green Mountain Multisport also had good presence at 43rd Annual RunVermont's First Run 5k in Downtown Burlington.  Slushy puddles and foggy hangovers couldnt stop 13 team members from slipping on racing flats for a trip down to the pain cave.  Sarah Pribrum and Eric Darling even brought matching Pink Pajama-gram Hoodie-Footies for everyone to wear at this fun New Years Day event.  I'm not sure if we will be equipping the entire team in Pink terry cloth for 2012, but it was good fun for one day!

OnTrack Spin #1 was a success on December 17th, and please be on the lookout for our January date for #2.  Don't forget to shoot Mike (falcon6183 at yahoo dot com) RSVP so we can have sufficient bagel/coffee rations available.

-ST

Green Mountain Multisport Thanks Sponsor Black Dog Photography for Support

Owner Jared Katz gave us "race face" pics at both Lake Dunmore Olympic and USAT Nationals.  

18 team members raced in Age Group Championships this year, and by having a professional photographer we can now share some of that energy and pride. 

For a look at the team on race day CLICK HERE

When you need professional photography in the Vermont area, be sure to drop Jared a personal note at jdkatzvt at mac dot com.  Check out his site at www.blackdogphotos.com and note a special survey of Hurricane Irene's effects on his community.