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Weekly Newsletter

Congrats to Glenn Hartrick taking the overall win at the Pascack Valley Triathlon and 2nd overall at the Staten Island Triathlon this past weekend.  GC Tri also took 2nd at the Pascack Valley Tri with Scott Duprex just missing the top of the podium.  Dave Pietrangelo also raced the Staten Island Tri taking 3rd in his age group while Jason Griggs had a solid day out on the course.
This weekend RJ will be leading a group ride on Saturday leaving the 14th St Ferry in Hoboken at 7:00 AM.  If you’re looking to ride on another day, feel free to just post the day and time you’re leaving Hoboken.  I’m sure someone else will want to join the fun!
GC Tri has some apparel inventory it needs to sell off.  We have cycling jerseys, tri tops, tri bottoms, headsweat hats, and sweatvac beanies.  Please email Andrew at  if you are interested in purchasing any GC Tri gear.
GC Tri’s September social will be hosted at the Haskell residence.  Save the date for Sep 27th from 6-9 PM.  We will have all the apparel there to try on.
Happy Training and have a safe Labor Day Weekend!

Weekly Newsletter

Hello All,

At Ironman Mont Tremblant, GC Tri welcomed Frank Virga to the Ironman family finishing in 12:40.  Eva Kovacs also finished her 20th, yes 20th Ironman up there in 13:48.  At the West Point triathlon Kevin Portman won his age group and took 10th overall.

At the USAT Nationals Sprint, Glenn Hartrick took 4th in his age group, while Jamie Brabston and Nicole Ogrosso took top 10s in their age groups as well.  Carlos Garcia also had a fine performance.  At the Olympic distance Jen Finotti, Melissa Manning, Kristine Papamichael, Gabby Czernik and Erica Manning all had great races!

At Timberman 70.3, we had a large group with the GC Tri Banner Flying high.  Rich Bean qualified for 70.3 Worlds in his first ever 70.3.  Scott Burns and Maria Wedgeworth also finished their first 70.3, Kristin Hespos got a PR by over 20 minutes for the course and Nicci Schock had another solid performance.

This weekend Mike H will be leading a group ride leaving the 14th St Ferry on Saturday at 7:00 AM.  He’s taking a long easy ride up to Bear Mountain if you are looking to long and have some company.  Don’t worry if you don’t want to ride that far, you can start with the group and turn around at any point.

Happy Training

Track Workout

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Good morning- here is tomorrow’s track workout:
Warmup: Jog to track; drills on infield
Main Set: 4 x 1600 @ 10K/mile/10K/mile; 90s between
Cool Down: Jog back to Hoboken
Meet at 9th & park at 6:00am or at the track for a 6:15am start.
SCHEDULE CHANGE: Starting next week our track workouts will move to Wednesday mornings to align with the new pool schedule. So this will be the last Tuesday track workout until the spring. Wednesday workouts will be same time, same place.

Wed Social/Weekly Newsletter

Hi All,
Congrats to Shana Lee for knocking over 3 minutes off her best time at the Jersey Girl triathlon last weekend.  At Born to Tri, we had a great showing as Glenn Hartrick too 4th overall and Andrew Shore took 6th overall.  JD Desloges made it a family affair racing with father for his first triathlon ever and we had Mike Frank returning from back surgery racing with his wife Tracey all having great races!
Wednesday Aug 6th, we will be having a GC Tri social meeting at Pier 13 at 7:30 PM for an adult beverage or two or three and a tan-line comparison contest.  Best tan-lines receives a firm pat on the back.
Happy Training,

There will be a gathering of triathletes this Wed

Tuesday Track

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Good morning- tomorrow’s track workout will be an Olympic themed special! We’ll run each of the sprint distances featured in the Olympics but we’ll do them twice.
Warmup: Jog to track; drills on infield
Main Set: 2 x (100-200-400-800-1500)
Cool Down: Jog back to Hoboken
Pace: The first time through will be @ sprint pace. The second time through will be @ 5K for the 100, 200, 400 and 800; @ 10K for the 1500.
Rest: The first time through will be 60s after each. The second time through will be 30s after each.
The goal is to reestablish our base paces for the next few weeks so we’ll max out our pace the first time through (thus the long rest) and focus on holding our 5K/10K pace on tired legs the second time through. Meet at 9th & Park at 6:00am or at the track for a 6:15am start.
Also a special shout out to those of you doing IM NYC this weekend that come to the track every week. Remember all of those 100m sprints we’ve done as you are coming into the finish chute. Good luck and know that we expect you back at the track next Tuesday!

Track Workout

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Hi everyone- another block of 5 hard workouts down, so tomorrow we’ll do our recovery workout (aka The Flusher) at the track:
Warmup: Jog to track; drills on infield
Set 1: 1 x 1600 @ 10K; 90s rest
Set 2: 100-200-300-400-300-200-100 @ 5K; 15s between, 90s after set
Set 3: 2 x 800 @ 10K; 200m jog between
Cool Down: Jog back to Hoboken

Meet at 9th & Park at 6:00am or at the track for a 6:15am start. See you then.

Michael