BEST WISHES FOR A SAFE AND SUCCESSFUL EVENT... ... to our youth Gators and anyone else racing and training! I've had the opportunity to participate in Gator workouts the past three evenings as well as Brian's services on Monday and Tuesday and a long SRT bike ride last Saturday. This provided an opportunity to see and catch up with many Gators past and present, including some that I had not seen for quite some time. It's been a very emotional couple of weeks and it will continue to be so. But I'm confident that hanging out with all of you is the best way for me to grieve and recover. So I look forward to continuing this process in the coming weeks/months. And whether you've made it out yet or not, I hope that you will join us! Our club leaders are meeting next week to discuss plans for how we can continue to honor Brian. I've already heard a lot of great ideas and we'll communicate some of the details back to you after we meet. Until then... Continue to "get it Gator Done, have fun, and have a beer!" Here's what's happening this weekend with the centerpiece being our largest ever turnout of youth Gators for an event... Weekend Workouts: We have no planned workouts on our official training calendar... • CANCELED: Sunday 8/28, 11:15am-12:15pm, Spring Valley YMCA indoor lap pool: There will be no uncoached group swim workout due to the indoor pool maintenance work. We'll resume this series on Sunday, September 11. • Do you want to lead a group bike ride or run? Many of us are training for events of all distances. We highly encourage you to share on our Facebook group any rides or runs (of any length) that you are doing where you'd like some company! Weekend Events: The weekend includes a couple of events plus an "extended weekend" event next Tuesday... Saturday, August 27: • SIGNATURE CLUB EVENT / SPONSOR EVENT: Scoogie Events' Kids Rock Summer Triathlon (The Penllyn Club, Penllyn, PA): There will be 13 Gator Tots and Jr. Gators takin on this event that accepts entries from age 6 to 15! This fast paced event begins at 8am and will be conducting the 9am award ceremonies while the parents' coffee is still warm. If you do not have plans, we highly encourage you to come out, stop by our Gator tent, and cheer them on! Our participants include Emerson Chadwick, Graycen Chadwick, Kate Dansbury, Tess Dansbury, Jack Epelbaum, Juliana Kelecic, Kaitlyn Kelecic, Hailey Raab, Claire Sabatino, Nora Sabatino, Belle Stone, Lily Stone, and Paige Swiech. Go Gator Tots and Junior Gators! Sunday, August 28: • The Philly 10K (Philadelphia): Our two busiest athletes in 2022, Joe DeNicola and Susan Flavin are back at it, this time by foot! The event spans 76 (of course) blocks in South Philly and Center City. Go Joe and Susan! And one event that we missed from earlier this week... Wednesday, August 24: • SPONSOR EVENT: Scoogie Events' UnWINEd 5K (Perkasie, PA): In the inaugural version of this event (which seems to be part of a growing Scoogie "UnWINEd series"), Kristie Bruno ran through the Bishop Estate & Winery... Way to go, Kristie! Have a great weekend! 💚BK🍺