CTC KITS ARE HERE!! - Please check out the yahoo group for details on how to pick up your new gear!  Thank you Sean Molina for all your hard work!

Recent Events: CTC First Thursday Time Trial was a great. We had 11 athletes come out and test themselves on the River Road Time Trial course. Check out the results here http://www.chicotriathlonclub.com/

Upcoming events:

We are exactly one month away from the club's first tri of the year!!

The USAP Event June 8th at Folsom Lake is our first opportunity to race as a club this year. There will be multiple distances all on the same day. It will be a great opportunity for the first time triathlete as well as the experienced veteran.

Offerings include a Sprint, International (Olympic) Distance, and Long Course Options.

Sprint - 1/2 Mile Swim - 19 Mile Bike - 3.1 Mile Run

International - 1.5k Swim - 40k Bike - 10k Run

Long Course - 1.2 Mile Swim - 56 Mile Bike - 13.1 Mile Run

Lots of fun to be had. Please be sure to sign up asap!

If you haven't signed up already, please let me know. We have a special discount code for these races and for USAP events all season long. You can sign up here http://www.usaproductions.org/

We are also working on the details for a Practice Triathlon at Black Butte Lake on - June 1st. Keep an eye out for additional details coming soon.

Racing this weekend:

We are in the midst of triathlon season with several of our athletes racing on Saturday at the Folsom Olympic Distance. Good luck to everyone this weekend, wherever you are training or racing.

Sponsor Highlight:

Renew Float Spa (http://www.renewfloatspa.com/) is our newest Bronze level sponsor. Renew is providing a $40 float any time compared to $60 normal (bring your own earplugs.) From personal experience, this is a great experience and is a very helpful recovery tool.

Gear Sharing: We have a total of 4 bikes in "inventory" and 3 wetsuits. If you are looking for gear or have gear to share, please let me know.

It is getting warmer and Summer is right around the corner... Check out the group workout schedule here.

Until next time...Swim, ride, run and have some fun!!

Justin

Here are results for this evening's RRTT, with apologies to anyone whose name I've mangled.

25:56 Joanne Gilchrist

26:47 Eric Ayars

27:19 Jim Peplow

27:39 Teresa Kloot

28:11 Walt Schafer

28:42 Jeriamee Leeman

29:12 Jim Hall

30:23 Dan Spencer

32:24 Jim Hanna

34:34 Lisa Collins

36:39 Tony English

Thank you all for coming, TTs are more fun when we have a good group like this. Thanks to Justin and Shawn for setting up the course, and to Stefan for doing the timing. See you again next month, when the weather probably won't be quite this cool. :-)

First Thursday River Road TT

In Rodney's (hopefully brief) absence, the Chico Tri Club is going to hold the First Thursday River Road TT.

When: Thursday, May 1

Signups start at 5:30p

First rider off at 6:01p

Where: Meet where West 5th Street turns into Chico River Road.

River Road TT course - click here for details

http://racechico.com/course/river-road-10-mile-time-trial

Come on out and test yourself against the clock.  CTC will handle sign ups and send off's.  Everyone will need to keep their own finishing times.

Please invite a friend, repost, resend and share!

We miss you, Rodney, and hope you feel better soon!!