BEST WISHES FOR A SAFE AND SUCCESSFUL EVENT... ... and a spectacular Mother's Day weekend to all Gators in your racing and training and celebrating this weekend! With the completion of last night's "Changing of the Shoelaces", an event that included 11 Gators in attendance (and one ceremonious pair of shoelaces changed), we are now officially in multisport season! Over the weekend two of our sponsors will help to get things started including Kinetic Multisport's "Kinetic Triathlon" and Scoogie Events' "Peace Valley Duathlon". And besides that our sponsor RUNegades is offering a Sunday morning "Mother's Day Run"! In all we have 6 athletes participating in 8 events and this includes one athlete completing the "trifecta" with 3 events! Before we cover who's doing what, a handful of news and notes items... • Gators Surf & Turf Club Badge logging: Be sure to log your accomplishment any time you earn a new badge (or baked potato topping). To date we've had 62 badges and toppings logged, which I'm guessing is around 60% of the actual total, so probably lots of unlogged badges. To make it easy, here's the post where you can check off your accomplishments... https://www.facebook.com/groups/msgators/posts/2243028729215220 • Mother's Day Run: The RUNegades Sunday morning run will include event entry raffles, apparel giveaways, professional running assessments, and even cake! For more information and to register, go to the event... https://www.facebook.com/events/909586996927224 • Saturday Course Preview Rides and Runs: There will be course preview rides and runs for both the Independence Triathlon (Sunday 5/21) and the French Creek Triathlon (Saturday 5/20) taking place THIS SATURDAY/tomorrow. The Independence Tri preview starts at 8:30am at Lake Nockamixon (https://www.facebook.com/events/595513995863568) and the French Creek Tri preview ( https://www.facebook.com/FrenchCreekTriathlon/posts/959929321655261) • T-shirts Update: There was a printing error on our club t-shirts that we are in the process of correcting. We'll provide an update as soon as we have the replacement shirts. • Youth Gators Swim Workout reminder: Just a reminder to all of our junior members and parents that this coming Monday night will feature a youth Gators swim workout at the Spring Valley YMCA's indoor lap pool (in parallel to our adult Gators workout). For more details and to register, see the event... https://www.facebook.com/events/1540896579653278 Weekend Workouts: We have six workout options over the weekend... • Saturday 5/13, 8:30am, Lake Nockamixon: Independence Triathlon course preview ride/run • Saturday 5/13, 8:30am, Keystone Running Store, 200 E. High St, Pottstown: Group run... https://www.facebook.com/groups/479291044416772 • Saturday 5/13, 10am-Noon, 1400 S. Trooper Rd, Norristown: French Creek Racing OWS swim training. Club discount available. For more details... https://runsignup.com/.../Norristown/OpenWaterTrainingSwims • Saturday 5/13, Noon, French Creek State Park: French Creek Triathlon course preview ride/run • Sunday 5/14, 8:00am, Steel City Coffeehouse, Phoenixville: RUNegades Mother's Day run... https://www.facebook.com/events/909586996927224 • Sunday 5/14, 11:15am-12:15pm, Spring Valley YMCA indoor pool: 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, May 13-Sunday, May 14: • SPONSOR EVENT: Kinetic Multisports' "Kinetic Triathlon" (Spotsylvania, VA): Kinetic continues to roll out triathlons on almost a weekly basis. This 2 day event includes sprint, Olympic, and 70.3 distance events with aquabike and relay options. Next weekend they'll be close to our home with the Independence Triathlon on Sunday, May 21 (club discount is available for ALL Kinetic Multisport events). Saturday, May 13: • CLUB/SPONSOR EVENT: Scoogie Events "Peace Valley Duathlon" (Doylestown, PA): This event features 2 duathlon distances as well as 5 mile and 5K run options. We have four Gators participating including Gleb Epelbaum and Ben Moore taking on the long duathlon (5K run/11 mile bike/5K run) and Whitney Chadwick-Lessar doing the short duathlon (2 mi run/5.5 mi bike/2 mi run) plus Lindsay Inger participating in the 5K run. Go Gleb, Ben, Whitney, and Lindsay! • Fayetteville Spartan Trifecta Weekend (Spring Lake, NC): Newly certified PIAA Wrestling ref Jon Crosby starts his 3 event weekend the hard way with the challenging "Ultra Beast" event that covers 50K with 60 obstacles to overcome in between the start and finish! Go Jon! Sunday, May 14: • Bear Triathlon (Bear, DE): Giving us a start on the local triathlon scene, Shawn O'Malley is competing in the Olympic distance event. Go Shawn! • Fayetteville Spartan Trifecta Weekend (Spring Lake, NC): Hopefully he gets a good night's sleep after Saturday's event, because Jon Crosby is back at it for two additional obstacle course events with the super (10K and 25 obstacles) and the sprint (5K and 20 obstacles)! Go Jon, squared! Have fun, Gator Done, then drink a beer! 💚BK🍺