Friday 24 December 2010

Merry Christmas!!!

To all our Staff, Club Members & Customers we hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. Many thanks for all your support & custom throughout 2010. We look forward to seeing you all for an exciting & action packed 2011!!



Wednesday 15 December 2010

We are celebrating Christmas early
at
ATHelite, Hamilton


Friday, 17th December
9.30am - 6.30pm

 For the 5th year at ATHelite we are putting on our Santa hats and offering you the following... 

25% off all in-store purchases*
25% off Sport Therapist Vouchers
(Pre-pay for an appointment for 25% off the usual price or buy as an ideal Xmas present)
Mince Pies
Mulled Wine
Personal Shopper
Gift Wrapping 
Come and see us for a Christmas Catch-up!!
 
*excludes sale items, already discounted items, Skechers and MBT’s.



ATHelite Tri Club Training Sessions.

o Wednesday 15th LAST SWIM at Hamilton College 2010!

o Wednesday 15th Rollers, ATHelite 6.50 for 7.00pm

o Thursday 16th Usual Run 6.15 – 7.15pm

o Friday 17th Swim Tollcross 7.00am

o Friday 17th Discount day at ATHelite

o Sunday 19th Long Run, Whitelees Wind Farm 9am Last one of the Year (for us)

o Monday 20th Swim Tollcross 7.00am

o Monday 20th Usual Run 6.15 – 7.15pm

o Wednesday 22nd Rollers, ATHelite 6.50 for 7.00pm Last one of the 2010!

o Thursday 23rd Usual Run 6.15 – 7.15pm

o Sunday 26th No Run - unless you want to hook up???

o Monday 27th Usual Run 6.15 – 7.15pm

o Thursday 30th No Run – unless you want to hook up???


No Swim at Tollcross on the 24th, 27th, 31st as the Pool Opens at 9am.

I'd recommend you all try and hook up over the Holiday to get training sessions in.

You can leave comments here or on the Facebook page to organise.
 
Happy Holidays!!

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Winter Reductions instore at ATHelite

A Two Day Bonanza!!

25% OFF
 
all Footwear & Clothing

(excluding sale items, MBTs and Skechers)

Thursday 9th and Friday 10th December
ONLY!!!!

Saturday 4 December 2010

Sandy, I need your meal choice for the night out no later than Sunday 5th!

Pool Mate Swim Watch by Swimovate

After being so popular and selling out we've managed to get the Pool Mate back in stock at ATHelite

The Pool-Mate is the only fully automatic Swimming Computer. Simply press the Start button and begin to swim.  No forgetting your lap count! No pressing buttons at the end of each lap!

Features:
Laps, Time, Average Strokes per lap, Speed, Distance, Calories, Set times, Pause function, Efficiency Index, Large Memory, Alarm and fully functioning stylish digital watch, Water Resistant to 50m

Thursday 2 December 2010

Ironman Switzerland 2011 - Training Update

2009 Barcelona,
2010 Copenhagen,
2011 Switzerland.

Our Ironman journey continues as we now think about our next event in Zurich in July 2011. As we roll along each year the size of our party seems to increase in size too. In Barcelona there was just myself & Genevieve, Jack & Johnny. In Copenhagen we had Graeme, Derek & Mark Daly alongside us and for next year in Switzerland we now have Graeme & Johnny again plus Dawn & Gareth in their 1st IM plus Genevieves sister Pammy is coming over from Canada too. As well as the ATHelite crowd there are also 8 guys from our local Lanark Tri Club too. Go Team Lanarkshire! Should be fun.

Whilst the event is not till the middle of next year we are already into our training plan and are currently in our second 4 week block. We move through different training periods as we progress, the current period being the preparation phase. This is initially a 'train to train phase' & involves getting your body strong to be able to withstand the heavier loads that will be put upon it later in the training. This features lots of back to basics swim sessions focussing on drills & technique & gym sessions to strengthen the body & it's core. We are also on a 28 day run program to increase running frequency without creating too much fatigue. Cycling is always the hardest bit this time of year, especially in the snow, so these are mostly indoor sessions but this is fine - there is plenty of time to be knocking out the mileage after New Year. I find that if I push the biking too hard now I risk burning out later in the season. Our bike training next year will feature more individual rides and less group riding. There is no bunch riding on race day - it is individual time trial & we will train more specifically for this.

As we move through December our training moves into the Base phase for the next few months - building the base & building the endurance. Ironman training can be thought of as a triangle - the bigger the base, the higher the peak.

Going forwards our training plan will look a little different to previous years where we have stayed in Base phase almost up to the event. This time round we will replace Base with a Build phase as we focus much more on solo race specific workouts. More of this later! 

For now we have to deal with training in these somewhat extreme weather conditions but hopefully it won't last the whole winter like it seemed to last year!!

Wednesday 1 December 2010

Swim 1st December

Swim Cancelled

Due to the weather the Swim is cancelled tonight.