AGM
The club recently held it's AGM to review 2009, and to make some plans for 2010. By the way, we now have a new venue for club meetings which is in the Riccarton Arms, Currie. Part of the agenda involves stopping the chat to take orders for a round of drinks and more crisps. Everyone is welcome to club meetings, and the next one is at said pub on 21st March @ 1930 - so come along and join in - the more the merrier.

At our AGM we concluded that 2009 had been a quieter year for Pentland Triathletes than previously, particularly as we didn't have the focus of the Balerno Ladies Triathlon in the summer. However, the clubs training schedule was felt to have been consolidated during 2009.

Training Timetable
Please check out the revised training timetable on our website to ensure you are not missing out on anything.

Highlights to seek out are our new swim coach on a Saturday morning at 0730 @ Balerno High School (BHS), who is proving very popular, and the input of a turbo coach at some of our Tuesday evening training sessions. Just to let you know, the Tuesday cycling session will move to road training as soon as the evenings are light enough, (and this information will be emailed to you).

You have also hopefully seen the emails detailing Saturday morning cycle sessions. Some Saturdays, the club can now offer you a choice of;

• either hill running with Iain Morrice at 0845 starting at Threipmuir car park,
• or a cycle session/other training after swimming

Emails will keep you up to date with what is going on as an alternative to hill running.

Activities
In addition to emails, Pentland Triathletes have been given some space on the notice board in BHS reception area which will be up dated with activities. We are also going to be more proactive on our website in providing more frequent information of activities, so do keep your eye on that as well.

Training plans for 2010 will include 'fun' sessions whereby we can put our disciplines to the test. E.g. open water swims, off road cycling, a sprint triathlon, a Duathlon, brick sessions. Not only will this give us excellent training opportunities, it will give us the chance to get to know each other better in a more 'sociable' atmosphere. We would also like to offer more social events, e.g. mountain biking at Glentress, water polo, etc.

If anyone has any ideas as to what would be fun for us to do together as club members, then please let us know.

Threipmuir Open Water/Mountain Bike Triathlon
Pentland Triathletes are also going to host an open water/mountain bike triathlon based around Threipmuir on 26th June, so get that date in your diary.

This event will be open to members and non-members, and for those of us who don't fancy a swim in the reservoir, there will be the option of a Duathlon instead.

Committee Changes - Big Thanks to Ali
At our AGM we also agreed the following roles for some of our members. See the Contacts page for details.

You will notice that Ali is no longer our chairperson as Mark has taken on this role. Ali has done a great job for us over the years, and we all owe her a huge thank you for leading the club forward over the past few years.

This takes us up to the summer holidays - we will decide before then what is happening over the holidays and I will let you know.

Fees are due in three blocks on the following dates;

• 27th Feb (£20, to cover 5 weeks)
• 24th April (£24, to cover 6 weeks)
• 5th of June (£16, to cover 4 weeks)

Cheques made payable to Pentland Triathletes.

Should any non member like to participate the fee is £5 per session and this will be dependant on spaces in the pool.

Iain Morrice has been leading a Saturday morning hill run with Harmeny folk for a few months now, and has kindly agreed to a new start time of 08:45, to allow the swimmers to get out of the pool and up to Threipmuir car park.

The meeting place is Threipmuir car park at 08:45, (give or take a few minutes), but try not to keep folk waiting, particularly in the cold weather, and Iain will lead a hill run in the Pentlands. Iain is very good at finding interesting different routes, it is not a competitive session, it is sociable, but including some good hill work, which is excellent fitness training for all disciplines.

We are planning an Open water triathlon, to take place on Saturday 26th June 2010 at Threipmuir.

More details to follow shortly.