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Hi there,

Lorraine at Motivations Fitness has kindly offered four free classes to registered HEAT members coming up in the next couple of weeks.  Please call Motivations (789 9435) or email them at motivations@bellnet.ca to register for one or more of the classes:

Saturday 10^th April……………………..Two hour  Endurance spin ………….8:15am

Wednesday 14^th April……. …………..Yoga for runners ………………5:15pm

Thursday 15^th April …………………….Pilates ………………………….5pm

Friday 16^th April ………………………..Yoga for Athletes ……………. 6:15am

Signing up for one or more classes: Please make sure that you sign up at least 48hrs before the class

If you have to cancel for some reason: Please be courteous and call or email them if you aren’t going to make it.  It might mean that someone on the waiting list could get into the class.  Their phone # is 789-9435 or they can e-mail us at motivations@bellnet.ca.

Happy training….gotta love the sunshine!!!!!

Rich

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All are welcome to come out to try something new at Arrowhead Provincial Park on February 28th, March 14 and March 21.

Skijoring is a sport which has its roots in Scandinavia, and simply constitutes any energetic dog pulling a cross-country skier!
The skier wears a skijoring harness, the dog wears a sled dog harness, and the two are connected by a length of rope (with a built in bungee). There are no reins or other signaling devices to control the dog: The dog must be motivated by its own desire to run, and respond to the owner’s voice for direction.

Don’t have the equipment?  No problem! There will be some gear onsite to borrow and instruction on how to effectively ski and guide your dog.  This is your chance to try a new  emerging sport with your own dog (who should be more than 30 lbs) or one that is already trained.

Standard Park day rates will apply…
Questions?  Contact Matt or Kristi at The Bike Shop in Gravenhurst at (705) 687-7433 or Lowell at lowell@heatitup.ca

If you’re considering training for an endurance sport this year, you’re sure to have questions. Even if you’ve trained and competed in endurance sports in the past, you will likely have questions about how to train this year.We’ve created a new Training Programs Forum to promote local training programs.  If you have questions to pose to the community about training – this is the place to ask them and get answers. If you’d like to share a endurance training program with the community, please do! Any questions about how to post to the Forum, feel free to contact us at iwantto@heatitup.ca

I spent Saturday and Sunday at Arrowhead Provincial Park on the ski and snowshoe trails. Lots of classic and skate skiing and snowshoe running and racers and race officials out training for upcoming races.

Neil Jefferson and I ran the Hardwood Hills 3km loop in snowshoes on Saturday afternoon. It was absolutely beautiful with temperature of -14 °C and sunny blue skies. His running snowshoes being much smaller than my more traditional snowshoes seemed to be of some advantage, not to mention is long Kiwi legs propelling him in huge leaps down the hills Looking forward to participating in the upcoming Snowshoe race on January 24th. Nothing like snowshoe running to pin your heart rate in the upper 90%.

I also got a short skate ski in and ran across a few racers getting ready for the local Muskoka Loppet and Canadian Ski Marathon in Quebec. Jimmy Brendish was out on his skate skis as well, and Dave Gibson put in a huge effort with 80km on his classic skis. Of course, the ever present Steve Jones was out instructing for the Arrowhead Nordic Ski Club Ski for Fitness class on Saturday.

Sunday morning, the Six Feet Under adventure racers got in a 11km run and crossed paths with the 9am Sunday morning running group that meets at the Tim Hortons on Hwy 60.

Sunday afternoon, the Ontario Winter Games crew were out doing a dry run for the games next weekend. The sprint races are on Saturday Jan 16th, while the distance races are on the morning of Sunday Jan 17th. (Draft Schedule) This had the Arrowhead Race Centre team out to race the new Sprint loop – an exciting, fast paced event to watch.

Register now for the Muskoka Loppet or the Snowshoe Races.

Hope you had a great weekend!

Rob Horton

Here’s an update from Neil Jefferson…

There are now three races. The course is the Lookout Trail (now known as Hardwood Hill Trail), which is a 3km loop. We will have: 3km individual, 9km individual, 9km relay

The relay is for two or three person teams. The rule is that each team can only use one pair of snowshoes. That should make for a fun race.

For the draw prizes: two pair of GV cat Trail running snowshoes ($180 pr), gaiters, poles, gift certificates, and lots more.

For place prizes : 3km- $25 gift certificates from Running Free (1st place male, 1st place female), 9km individual -$50 gift cert. from Running Free (1st male, 1st female), 9km relay – working on it.

So I encourage you to put together a team or race as an individual. Let me know if you need snowshoes. I have one pair that someone can borrow. Also, AO and Sharpley’s rent them.

Register Now

If you aren’t able to race, I do need some volunteers. Call me at 789-9716 or email – jumanji96@hotmail.com

One of the goals of HEAT is to encourage members of the community to train together. After many discussions about the best way to make this work, we decided to install a Forum module. The Forum module allows you to register and post information you want to share with the HEAT community.

Want to go cross-country skiing on Saturday afternoon, but don’t want to go alone? Post a note to the ‘Join Me…I’m going Cross-Country Skiing‘ Forum Group with the details: where, when, how far you plan to go and invite members to join you. Want to keep up to date with who’s doing what? Subscribe to the Join Me… Group RSS feed.

We’ll soon be adding other forum groups to help give you a voice and get the ball rolling on a number of new training groups.

To get started, all you need to do is register.

Let’s have a Resolution Snowshoe on Sunday January 3rd. We will meet at 9.00am at the Jug City on Highway 60, and carpool from there. At least one of us has a minivan that seats 7. The caretakers at the Limberlost Forest and Wildlife Reserve advise they don’t groom the bush trails, but both Buck Lake and Lake Solitaire Trails have had snowshoers on them already, so they should be somewhat packed. It shouldn’t matter whether they are groomed or not, as we can take turns breaking trail if there is fresh snow. It has been suggested that we use the Solitaire Trail. It is 5.4km around the lake, and is beautiful! There is one big hill of about 300m. Other than that it is flat to rolling. Everyone goes at their own pace.

If you don’t have snowshoes, ask around for some loaners. Other than that AO and the Muskoka Bicycle Pro Shop rent snowshoes.

Some clothing and fueling suggestions from Neil (one of our seasoned ultra athletes)… “Everyone should take a small snack and fluids. I just carry a few granola bars, and have warm water with electrolytes. I also dress in layers. For me that is neoprene socks, runners,  high gaiters, running pants, long sleeved running shirts, light fleecy,my cycling jacket, a toque and gloves. Like skiing, it doesn’t take long to get warm.”

After the ’shoe’ we could go to Muskoka on the Rocks for a beverage!

Hope to see everyone on the 3rd!

Thanks to Don McCormick for publishing this article about HEAT in the November 2009 edition of What’s Up Huntsville/Lake of Bays Magazine.

On the same page, local endurance runner, Troy Cox was highlighted for placing 6th out of 4,930 runners in the Goodlife Fitness Toronto Half-Marathon with a time of 1:12:42 – an avg pace of 3:27/km. Way to go Troy!

Hello!

You’ve found us. We’re a few local Huntsvillians who are initiating an athletic community called the Huntsville Endurance Athlete Team, or HEAT for short.

The goal of this group is to pull together the many like-minded people that live and train in endurance athletic endeavours here in Huntsville and surrounding area.  Why endurance athletes?  There are many active people in our community, and there are several small pockets of people participating in different sports, however, virtually none have an organized group that they can make contact with!  Adventure racing, cycling (road and mountain), running (road and trail), triathlons, and long distance swimming are just a few of the sports that are “unorganized” that we hope we can connect.

HEAT is trying to bring all these groups together through two means:

[1] Though a virtual community. www.heatitup.ca is a place where people can post their training sessions and invite others to join them.  Going for a long bike and want some company…post your workout distance, start location and time, and people might just show up.  Starting group rides and runs, time trials (for running, cycling, and swimming), track workouts, strength workouts…there are a number of possibilities, and it is only limited by what kinds of workouts we can dream up.  It is also a forum to communicate other athletic centric activities – information about carpooling, equipment education, training principles, nutrition, etc.

[2] In person.  Through group meetings a social dynamic can be built in information sessions on a variety of topics.  It may also be a chance to take a break from sport and meet with friends who are like minded.  We are hoping to draw on the expertise of our members as well as outside speakers invited to speak to our group

One great aspect is that the community is driven by your involvement and engagement.  More importantly it is FREE!  We want to promote a team that works together.  With this in mind it would be great if all participants could provide input from their own areas of expertise.  We all have strengths that each of us can gain experience from. In essence, we are hoping to develop a social network where like minded people can get together to do like minded activities and then enjoy each others company afterwards over some food and drink if time may permit!

It is exciting to have the opportunity to build an inclusive community of like minded individuals in the field of endurance sport!  There is truly a great depth of athletic experience in Huntsville.  HEAT is a medium where familiar names and faces can finally come together in an environment where they can freely share information, facilitate continued exercise and training programs and simultaneously encourage other members of the community at large to participate in sport.

In time, we hope that this builds a strong sense of community where it can help better our community through sports representation and advocacy within our town.

If you are interested, please email us at iwantto@heatitup.ca as we are just collecting names of interested people at this point.  We will send out regular updates as we get the whole process going and let you know when our “kick off” event is. You can also subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed to keep up on new postings.

Time to turn on the HEAT!