BEST WISHES FOR A SAFE AND SUCCESSFUL EVENT... ... to all Gators springing into action this weekend! Spring arrives officially on Sunday, but this week has already given us a nice taste of it! All of our known event starts this weekend take place on Sunday morning and our athletes will all be across the finish line just in time for the 11:33am spring start (which happens to be during our Sunday club swim workout). Before we cover this week's starts, a few notes... • Congratulations to AJ Kruppa who recently finished 2nd in the 50 backstroke at the Delaware Valley Masters Swim Championship and also to Don Schlichtmann who won the BR Kino Crit bike race in Tucson, Arizona last weekend! • Sponsors Document: Be sure to check out our 2022 sponsors document that was completed and posted last night by our Sponsors team of Sheri Kuss and Jeff Moyer. We'll leave it posted under "Featured" for a while and you can always find it under "Files". Weekend Workouts: We have a couple of opportunities for you to train with fellow Gators this weekend... • Saturday, March 19, 8am-9:15am: Zwift Cycling Meetup... We are partially completing the Watopia "Bigger Loop" route during the 75 minutes. You can join us for part of it or the entire 75 minutes. And feel free to stay if you are looking for an even longer ride (completing the entire route will likely take around 2 hours); we typically have Gators with rides ranging from 30 minutes to over 2 hours (and Don Mack is planning to ride for 2:30-3:00). See "Event" for more info... https://www.facebook.com/events/920000418698802 • Sunday, March 20, 11:15am-12:15pm, Spring Valley YMCA Indoor Lap Pool: Uncoached group swim workout Weekend Events: This weekend we have a couple of events that were rescheduled from last weekend as well as two NY half marathons... Sunday, March 20: • SPONSOR EVENT: Scoogie Events' "Shake Your Shamrock" (Peddler's Village, Lahaska, PA): This rescheduled race (originally scheduled for 3/13) has it all including the Shake Your Shamrock 8K and 5K, the Little Leprechaun Run, and the Pot O' Gold 2 mile Run/Walk! Kristie Bruno will be participating in the 8K run. Go Kristie! • NYC Half Marathon (New York, NY): Some big happenings for the Gators here as Sara Dansbury will be completing her first half marathon and Gator of the Month Susan Flavin and Joe DeNicola continue their quest for the 2023 NYC Marathon! Go Sara, Susan, and Joe! • Fallen Comrades Half Marathon (West Point, NY): Holly Beauchamp will be taking on this hilly challenge (1,000+ feet of climbing!) in beautiful West Point! Go Holly! • Schuylkill River Greenways 5 Miler (Douglassville, PA): In the first ever event with a Gator we can recall taking place in nearby Douglassville, David Stone will be running. Go David! Have a great weekend and Gator Done! 🐊