2010 archive

Weekly Newsletter

Hello All,
So the New York Marathon is next weekend.  That means next week will be the last week of GC Tri track workouts in the morning. Take advantage while you can!
This weekend Andrew and Rich will be leading a ride on Saturday leaving the 14th St Ferry in Hoboken at 8:00 AM.  Mike Satz will also be leading a group run on Saturday leaving from 1st and Washington at 9:00 AM.  And finally, don’t forget about the awesome trail running option on Sunday that is close by.  Feel free to contact Kristen Sykes for more info:  ksykes at optonline.net and the web site ishttp://www.njtrailrunning.com/group-runs.html.
Good luck to everyone racing the HoBOOken 5k on Saturday!
Happy Training,

Saturday Activity

Hello All,
There is a pretty cool event going on this Saturday..  The Bike Hoboken group will be have a leisure ride around the city to promote biking within town.  This is the same group that helped obtain bike lanes throughout town.  There will be several city government members there to see how important biking is to people who live in Hoboken.  It will be a leisure ride around town leaving the Wicked Wolf around noon.  Try and make it out there if you can and show the city of Hoboken what biking means to this town.
For more information feel free to email Chris Giannini at giannini..
Andrew

Weekend Ride

Get a ride in before The Hunt this weekend.  Relaxed and easy 20 mile-ish bike ride at 8am Saturday.  Should be fairly cool so bundle-up.  Feel free to come out and go further if you would like.

Wednesday Morning Track

  • Filed under run

Good morning,
Just a few weeks of track workouts left for this season so come out and join us on the track tomorrow morning.
Warmup: Jog to track
Yasso 800s: 8-10 x 800, 45s rest between
Cooldown: Jog back to Hoboken
We are doing Yasso 800s again because of the NYC Marathon. You should do 10×800 at least 11 days prior but ideal is 14-17 days before the marathon. Tomorrow is about 17 days out so it’s a good time to do them. If you would rather wait until next week (11 days out) you can do that as well.
As always our goal is to run each 800 at a consistent split.  And for the marathoners, if your goal is a 4 hour marathon you should hit 4:00 on each 800.  If your goal is 3:45 then you should run them in 3 minutes, 45 seconds.  Get it?
Meet at 9th & Park at 6:15am to jog to the track or you can meet at the track on River Rd. in Weehawken for the 6:30am start. If you plan to run 10 x 800 you may want to get there early or be prepared to get back a bit later than normal.
–Michael

Master’s Swim Announcement

Stevens Masters Members Past & Present,

Starting Monday November 1st, Stevens Masters (STVN) will be known as Hoboken Masters.  Hoboken Masters is owned by and will be run by Hoboken Masters LLC, which I created in order to rent pool space from Stevens (and keep the team around).  I am attempting to make this change as easy as possible, but a few changes have to be made.  I have contacted every member who paid a 6 month or yearly membership according to my records about being reimbursed for remaining months on their membership. If you believe I made a mistake and missed you, please let me know.  Again, these changes go into effect Monday, November 1st.

Important Changes Starting November 1st:

—The Practice Schedule—

*No more Sunday practice.  You will be able to swim during any lap swim time on Saturday & Sunday’s on your own.
*You no longer will be able to swim during any lap swim time Monday-Friday.  Once the school purchases and implements a card swipe system (in the works, probably a few months down the road), this rule will be strictly enforced.
*Evening hours have been cut down.  I simply cannot afford to rent the pool four evening hours a week.  If more evening hours are requested and more members are swimming during evening hours, I can pay for more lanes, more hours, and more coaching.

Monday: 8PM – 9PM (3 Lanes)
Tuesday: 6AM – 7:15AM
Wednesday: 8PM – 9PM (3 Lanes)
Thursday: 6AM – 7:15AM
Friday: 5:45AM – 7AM
Weekends: Open Swim during any Adult Lap Swim time(2PM-8PM Saturday, 5:15PM-8PM Sunday)

—Pricing—-

*I am trying very hard to keep everything in line with how it has been.  Purchasing online (hobokenmasters.com) is the easiest way for me to process payments.  As of right now, I’m still waiting for my merchant application to be approved and the membership management system uploaded to the website.  Hopefully I’ll have it up by the end of next week. Unlike in the past, online payments are run through a different company and I don’t touch your credit card number.  You can still pay with check, please make it out to “Hoboken Masters.”  Here is the pricing structure:
Monthly (recurring & non-recurring): $60
Monthly (August / December): $45
2 Weeks: $30
6 Month: $300 (1 month free)
12 Month: $563 (2 months free + cost of 1-year USMS registration)
10 Practice Punch Card: $80 (good for 1 year)*Still working on the best way to create punch cards
Drop In Fee: $10 (Please contact Brad before dropping in)

Monthly, 6 Month & 12 Month memberships start on the 1st of the calendar month. 2 Week memberships start on the 1st or the 15th of the month.

—USMS Membership—
*During this transition period, paying for a membership will not require USMS registration until January 1st, 2011. Starting January 1st, in order to register you must be a USMS member.  USMS covers the insurance for the team, and therefore every person swimming at a Hoboken Masters practice will have to be a USMS member.

*You can register as a Hoboken Masters (HOBO) swimmer for 2011 starting November 1st.  Directions are on the website: www.hobokenmasters.com

The website is up and almost fully functional.  Online payments cannot be run yet, and the newsletter sign up is a few weeks away from working.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Brad Thornton

Track Workout

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Yeah, i know, this is from Wednesday and it’s now Friday.  I’m a little slow this week…well i guess i’m slow every week.

Good morning,
There are only a few more weeks of track workouts so come join us tomorrow before you hibernate for winter.  Tomorrow we will turn around last week’s workout and do a descending ladder:

Warmup: Jog to track
Descending Ladder: 1600-1200-1000-800-400-200
Cooldown: Jog back to Hoboken
Again we willl run each leg at 5K pace and do an active recovery by jogging 100m between intervals.  If you need more rest between intervals please jog 200m.  And if you need to shorten the workout you can remove the 1000 from the ladder.
Meet at 9th & Park at 6:15am to jog to the track or you can meet at the track on River Rd. in Weehawken for the 6:30am start. We should be back in Hoboken by 7:25am.
–Michael