BEST WISHES FOR A SAFE AND SUCCESSFUL EVENT... ... to all of our dads and other Gators that are taking on an event this weekend! Happy Father's Day weekend to all of our dads! We have 7 Gators on our start list including 3 dads and one is even doing an event with his Gator daughter! Plus our partner the RUNegades are offering a special Father's Day morning run! By a grand total of 8 seconds (over next weekend), this is the weekend with the most daylight for the entire year with an average day length of 15 hours, 4 minutes, and 51 seconds, so be sure to get outside and take advantage of it! Before we get to our start list, here are a few notes and our weekend workout schedule... • Get your 2023 Member T-shirt! Hurry, before we run out (we won't run out, but I will eventually stop lugging the boxes around)! We began distributing them the last couple of nights. To get yours, just be somewhere that I am and you can claim one. Here are your next few opportunities... Monday 6/19 and Wednesday 6/21 swim workouts, Tuesday 6/20 and Thursday 6/22 bike rides. • Mark your calendars: Sunday, July 16, late afternoon/early evening - Prime Rib Party: It's time for us to celebrate Keith Ho's amazing recovery as well as all of your accomplishments in the Gators Surf & Turf Club! To get an invite to the party, all that you need to do is achieve AND log at least one Surf & Turf club badge. So how do you do that?... • Gators Surf & Turf Club Badge logging: Log your accomplishment any time you earn a new badge (or baked potato topping). To date we have 105 badges and toppings claimed! Here's the post where you can check off your accomplishments... https://www.facebook.com/.../msgators/posts/2243028729215220 Weekend Workouts: We have three workout options (and three opportunities to earn a badge!) over the weekend... • Saturday 6/17, 8:30am, Keystone Running Store, 200 E. High St, Pottstown: Group run (earn the Shrimp Cocktail badge!)... https://www.facebook.com/groups/479291044416772 • Sunday 6/18, 8:00am, All Kinds of Fast (214 Bridge St, Phoenixville: RUNegades "Fathers Forever Run" (earn the Porterhouse badge!)... https://www.facebook.com/events/582015690471034 • Sunday 6/18, 11:15am-12:15pm, Spring Valley YMCA indoor pool (earn the Filet Mignon badge!): Uncoached group swim Weekend Events: So, who's doing what? As always, if your name is missing from our best wishes list, PLEEEASE post a comment so that we can send Good Gator Vibes your way! Saturday, June 17: • SPONSOR EVENT: Scoogie Events' "Dairy Air" (Doylestown, PA): This event features 5K, 10K, and half marathon running options as well as the "Hay You" kids fun run and the "Utterly Fun" two mile walk/run. Representing the club will be Whitney Chadwick-Lessar participating in the 10K event. Go Whitney! • Mammoth March (Elkton, MD): Nestled in the northeast corner of Maryland that borders Pennsylvania and Maryland is the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area described as 5,656 acres of pristine fields, woodlands, and natural beauty. The Gator father/daughter combo of Tim Truckley and Rachel Truckley will be completing a 20 mile hike through it. Have a great hike, Tim and Rachel! • NYRR Queens 10K (Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY): Continuing his preparations for the 2023 NYC Marathon, Joe DeNicola takes on the 3rd event in the NYRR Five Borough series on a flat fast course. Go Joe! • Under Armour TOR 10K (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Our first 2023 Gator to compete in Canada! Lindsay Inger participates in this race along Toronto's waterfront. Go Lindsay! Sunday, June 18: Happy Father's Day! • Hammonton Sprint Triathlon (Hammonton, NJ): Our triathlon representative for this weekend will also be making his Gator triathlon debut! Benjamin Fong, who last week had the opportunity to be motivated by his daughter and youth Gator Austen completing her first triathlon, will compete in this sprint distance event that features a fresh water lake 1/4 mile swim, a 12 mile bike leg through scenic farmland, and a 3 mile run around baseball fields and through local neighborhoods. Go Ben! • Coventry Woods Run (Pottstown, PA): He's not going far, but he is going long! Chris Townsley plans to spend 6 hours of his Father's Day traversing "as many loops as you can" of the 10K mostly single track with rocks and roots course that also include 850 feet of elevation gain each loop (yikes!)! Go Chris! Have fun, Gator Done, then drink a beer! 💚BK🍺