Swimming
The last swim session is on June 26th @ 0730 as usual, and will form part of our Tri-a-Tri morning.

Unfortunately it is also the last session that will be coached by Neil as he is emigrating. For those of you who have attended Neil’s sessions, you will be aware that he has been an excellent coach, but we hope to replace him with someone equally as good for the September term. We will keep you updated as to start dates, etc.

Remember if you don’t pay for a block of swim sessions up front (this gives you a session price of £4.00), you can still come along and pay £5.00 on the door which is still extremely good value for an hours coached swimming.

Tri-a-Tri on 26 June
Ali will be sending out an invitation to come along to Balerno High School on 26th June for one of our famous Try a Tri’s. An informal sprint level Tri for everyone at whatever level to have a go at, and take as seriously or relaxed as they wish. It is also an opportunity for you to bring along friends/family to join in and check out what this Triathlon stuff is all about.

As a club we pride ourselves on post event refreshments, so it is definitely worth coming along for the post Tri cakes, etc. Hope as many of you can come along as possible.

This informal get together on the 26th replaces the Open Water Triathlon we had hoped to host this year, but due to the work at Threipmuir, and the extremely low water levels we have been unable to organise this. Hopefully this Open Water Triathlon event will be reinstated in 2011.

Events
We thought it would be nice for us as a club to focus on some specific events that as many club members as possible participate in, and to ‘fly the Pentland Triathlon Flag’.

This is short notice, but there are quite a few of us doing the Edinburgh to St Andrews cycle ride Saturday 19th June, the start point for this is Inverleith Park at 08:45.

The Eyemouth Triathlon comes highly recommended and it would be good for as many of us as possible to target this in our training, enter it and get it in the diary. It is on the 26th September and is part of the Triathlon Border Series. To find out more go Border Sport & Leisure Trust.

It would also be good if you are able to participate in these events for us all to wear our club shirts. Don’t forget you can buy long or short sleeve club shirts.

Summer Training

• Whilst the Saturday morning swim sessions end for summer on the 26th June, we are going to use Wester Hailes swimming pool on a Monday night between 20:10 and 21:15 which offers lane swimming for £3.00. It will be self led, but it will be nice to bump in to familiar faces who can urge each other on, and compare Scottish sun tans through the summer months.
• Tuesday evening cycling will continue. We leave Foulis Crescent (Juniper Green) @ 1900, meet up with other cyclist @ Balerno High School @ 1915 and go for a nice cycle – the distance of which varies depending on the weather and amount of light. User friendly to whatever level of cyclist you may be.
• All the running sessions with Harmeny continue throughout the summer holidays, which is great.

Club Meetings
We held a club meeting last Sunday evening which it was good to see so many people at.

If you fancy coming along to our next meeting it is on 22nd August at 1930 at the Riccarton Arms in Currie, it would be great to see as many people as possible.

One of the topics we discussed last Sunday was whether we should develop a junior section to our club which Ali Gordon is looking in to. If you do have any views on this idea, drop her an email.

AGM
The club recently held it's AGM to review 2009, and to make some plans for 2010. By the way, we now have a new venue for club meetings which is in the Riccarton Arms, Currie. Part of the agenda involves stopping the chat to take orders for a round of drinks and more crisps. Everyone is welcome to club meetings, and the next one is at said pub on 21st March @ 1930 - so come along and join in - the more the merrier.

At our AGM we concluded that 2009 had been a quieter year for Pentland Triathletes than previously, particularly as we didn't have the focus of the Balerno Ladies Triathlon in the summer. However, the clubs training schedule was felt to have been consolidated during 2009.

Training Timetable
Please check out the revised training timetable on our website to ensure you are not missing out on anything.

Highlights to seek out are our new swim coach on a Saturday morning at 0730 @ Balerno High School (BHS), who is proving very popular, and the input of a turbo coach at some of our Tuesday evening training sessions. Just to let you know, the Tuesday cycling session will move to road training as soon as the evenings are light enough, (and this information will be emailed to you).

You have also hopefully seen the emails detailing Saturday morning cycle sessions. Some Saturdays, the club can now offer you a choice of;

• either hill running with Iain Morrice at 0845 starting at Threipmuir car park,
• or a cycle session/other training after swimming

Emails will keep you up to date with what is going on as an alternative to hill running.

Activities
In addition to emails, Pentland Triathletes have been given some space on the notice board in BHS reception area which will be up dated with activities. We are also going to be more proactive on our website in providing more frequent information of activities, so do keep your eye on that as well.

Training plans for 2010 will include 'fun' sessions whereby we can put our disciplines to the test. E.g. open water swims, off road cycling, a sprint triathlon, a Duathlon, brick sessions. Not only will this give us excellent training opportunities, it will give us the chance to get to know each other better in a more 'sociable' atmosphere. We would also like to offer more social events, e.g. mountain biking at Glentress, water polo, etc.

If anyone has any ideas as to what would be fun for us to do together as club members, then please let us know.

Committee Changes - Big Thanks to Ali
At our AGM we also agreed the following roles for some of our members. See the Contacts page for details.

You will notice that Ali is no longer our chairperson as Mark has taken on this role. Ali has done a great job for us over the years, and we all owe her a huge thank you for leading the club forward over the past few years.

This takes us up to the summer holidays - we will decide before then what is happening over the holidays and I will let you know.

Fees are due in three blocks on the following dates;

• 27th Feb (£20, to cover 5 weeks)
• 24th April (£24, to cover 6 weeks)
• 5th of June (£16, to cover 4 weeks)

Cheques made payable to Pentland Triathletes.

Should any non member like to participate the fee is £5 per session and this will be dependant on spaces in the pool.

Iain Morrice has been leading a Saturday morning hill run with Harmeny folk for a few months now, and has kindly agreed to a new start time of 08:45, to allow the swimmers to get out of the pool and up to Threipmuir car park.

The meeting place is Threipmuir car park at 08:45, (give or take a few minutes), but try not to keep folk waiting, particularly in the cold weather, and Iain will lead a hill run in the Pentlands. Iain is very good at finding interesting different routes, it is not a competitive session, it is sociable, but including some good hill work, which is excellent fitness training for all disciplines.