The Thursday runs for February will be meeting and starting at the Sea Island Starbucks and going over the Canada Line bridge to Winona Park. Start time is still 6:30pm.

The route is: http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/66186836/

To go along with today’s swim session, attached is a copy of the triathlon swim pace chart: TriathlonSwimPaceChart

SAA Swimming is please to offer a Swim Video Analysis session on Wednesday Feb 1. Extra lanes have been rented and to accomodate the higher number of swimmers in the current Winter/Spring session we’ve extended the lane rental till 8:45am.  To help organize the video analysis, sign up will be available in the lobby of Watermania prior to the start of the Wednesday Jan 25th and Friday Jan 26th swim sessions, spots are limited. Look for your president with the sign up and more details.

Come to the SAA AGM on Sunday February 5 to see the new club uniforms!

Following the AGM and run there will be an opportunity to try on various sizing and styles of cycling / running gear for the upcoming order. Orders will be accepted until Feb 17th. Additional details and order sheets will be made available online and at the sizing. If you’re unsure of how the gear fits or your size then please come out to the AGM and this sizing session.

SAA members – if you have SAA uniforms (Champion cycling and running attire), it would be a huge help if you could bring these to the AGM and sizing session to allow others to try on the various sizes. Please mark your items with your name.

Congratulations to our very own Joanne Rooney for being part of The Province Team for the Vancouver Marathon.  Way to go!

Check out Joanne’s fabulous photo sporting The SAA pink and a great article about her marathon journey HERE.

Spin Class is cancelled tonight due to the power outage. See you all next week.

We’re pleased to have Ariella Turner, RHN, educating us with a short talk on Nutrition prior to our Tuesday January 31st run at 6:30 pm. Ariella is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and owner of Nutritionally Balanced, located in Steveston (www.nutritionallybalanced.ca). The talk and run will be out of the Clubhouse at 12333 English Avenue (couple blocks from the Steveston Starbucks). The talk starts at 6:30 pm and following we’ll begin our usual run.

The SAA is proud to organize a team dinner at our Gold Sponsor location.

Come to Dave’s and enjoy what they are famous for.

Family welcome.

Date: Monday January 23, 2012
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Special ‘SAA Members Only’ pricing in effect. Prices too low to publish!

Dave’s is holding 20 seats just for us. Please RSVP no later than Sunday January 22, 2012 to Erin director@thesaa.ca

Several SAA members have signed up for the Chuckanut 50km trail run on March 17.

Many of the training runs will need to include trails. We would like to incorporate some training runs into the SAA running schedule that may be part or all run in trails. If you want to join these training session, please check the regular training schedule and look for the “50KM” training run. We may be able to join these runs with the regular SAA group runs on occasion. Other times, the 50km group may start at a different location. This will not be for every Sunday. Also if we add a trail run, the same effort will be made for club members as usual ie: coach, key box, route info etc. Trail running does offer some different challenges, so be prepared.

Thanks, Amanda, Dan, Debbie and Pat

2012 SAA/TriBC Membership Renewal

Triathlon BC, at their last AGM, changed their membership to run on a calendar year (January to December) instead of April 1^st to March 31^st.  TriBC is offering discounted rates, equivalent to the month of renewal, that are now available through to March 31^st, 2012.  SAA is following suit by offering a pro-rated fee of $15.00 for all of 2012. This will change back to the previous fee of $20.00 in 2013.

If purchased by January 31, 2012:
TriBC $26.25 + SAA $15.00 = $41.25
If purchased by February 29, 2012:
TriBC $29.50 + SAA $15.00 = $44.50
If purchased by March 31, 2012:
TriBC $32.25 + SAA $15.00 = $47.25
After April 1, 2012 there is NO DISCOUNT from TriBC and a renewal member will be charged the full $35.00 as in  past years.  Note that this term ends with December 31, 2012 and you would be paying the full annual 12-month fee for a 9-month period.  It is strongly recommended that you renew before the end of March, 2012.

If you are an SAA member but get your TriBC membership with another club, your SAA fee is $15.00 for 2012.

If you are new member to SAA and to TriBC, your fee will be (TriBC $35.00 + SAA $15.00) = $50.00 for 2012.

For all of the above, please fill out both Membership Application and Emergency Contact forms. The forms are available at: http://www.thesaa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/SAA2011membership.pdf

As in the past, SAA will be submitting your TriBC renewal application to TriBC.  For this year only (up to March 31, 2012) SAA will be submitting it online and paying the online administration fees on your behalf to meet their deadlines.
Cheques should be made out to Steveston Athletic Association; cash will also be accepted (correct change please).
You can hand in the signed forms and payment to any of the Directors: Stephen Ptucha, Marinus Waterberg, Dawne Tiller, Jim Bodden, Brian Flett, Erin Lee and Linda Hilts.

If you wish to mail, please send to:
Steveston Athletic Association, c/o Suite 430 -6091
Gilbert Road, Richmond, B.C. V7C 5L9

NB:  allow enough time for Canada Post to deliver to meet TriBC’s discounted deadlines.

Questions: please contact me at membership@thesaa.ca