TEAM TRIUMPH - ST PADDY'S VIRTUAL CLUB RUN FOR MENTAL HEALTH
WOWOWOWOW!! What an amazing turnout we had this weekend for the 5km - 10km virtual walk/run event!! It was such fun looking at all of your accomplishments and pictures. Congrats to all who took part. We actually had a few PB's today which is pretty amazing given the stress levels of the past week.
A special shout out and thumbs up to Byron Johnson, one of our oldest members (over 70), for staying indoors and self-isolating after returning home from the states. I know it's not easy and if you know Byron he could kick most of our butts running and cycling for that matter!
Here are the results!
Julia Vlaming
Jennifer Kellar
Julie Watkins
Randy Peaker
Simone Rose-Oliver
Cristina Martinez
Jennifer Rae-Brown (opted to ski)
Kory McDonald (opted to ski)
Steve Swanwick
Josee Perreault
Michael Pierce
Debbi Ward
Ariane Zeba (in Belgium)
Andrea Levesque (in California)
Pedro Ibarra
Pascale Savard
Aaron Lesarge
Alla Khvatova
Glen Paradis
Anna Belanger
Mark Belanger
Robert Brown
Gary Maxwell
Brad Vlaming
Shawn Charland
Dana Cooper
Kit E
Luc Lapensee
Lynn Scott
Emily Graves
Anita Taylor
Ranya El Sadawy
Dan Begin
John McGowan
Phil Hodson
Debi Zaret
Stephanie Obaseki-Johnson
Larissa Couet - yep my step daughter took the challenge!
Julie Lafrance
Linda Lafrance
Cecile Beaurepaire
Anne Edwards
Langley Muir
Suzanne Rivest
Darcy Yee
France St Denis
Chris Barron
Darius Skusevicius
...and on Saturday:
Louise Lewis-James and her husband Graeme
Brenda Ross
Gavin Grusnick - in the mud, pushing a stroller and holding onto the dog!
We aren't just doing this event for the Vanier Social Paediatric Hub, we are also doing this for our own mental health!! Keep moving, everyone, and try to limit your exposure to the doom and gloom news to twice a day.
Please consider donating to the Vanier Social Paediatric HUB here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/5254
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I just wanted to thank you and your team (Gabi! Brenda! Maggie! Dawn!) for making last weekend's event so amazing. I had tried to do a try-a-tri on my own last summer, and the experience was night and day.
Even though I didn't make every virtual session, I felt so prepared... I knew where to go for information, and I knew I had a team of people (coaches and our beginner tri group!) who were all there to support me.
It was interesting to watch Eric train on his own (without access to the TrainingPeaks workouts and without the weekly meetings to ask questions and learn more about proper form and race-day stuff). When we left on Sunday, he looked at me and was like "we're DEFINITELY doing the training with Julia if we decide to go for the olympic distance, right?".
So glad to have found this club and looking forward to many more triathlons in the near future!!! Tai Teleso
Julia is incredible, I once had a coach who told me to get good at biking and running as he couldn't do anything with my swim technique. Then I was introduced to Julia who is so patient and has an amazing ability to translate it all into a way I could understand. I knocked a minute per 100m off my open water swim times after only a handful of sessions with her. The team is also really welcoming, inclusive and most of all FUN!
Triumph is a warm and fun place for every level of triathlete. Whether you’re just getting started and learning all about triathlon or have been at it for decades, like some of us, you will find camaraderie and expertise in this group with Julia Aimers’ support and caring. She keeps up-to-date in so many areas of training, especially for women and including women’s issues whether it be nutrition or menopause. I highly recommend Team Triumph for swimming, biking, running or putting it all together in one package. There is no other place or group, I would rather be training with. So many of my close friends were met in this group.
A huge thank you to my Triathlon coach, Julia Cooper-Aimers. She took the time last week to drop off (from a distance because of COVID19 restrictions) some tri shorts I ordered along with a well-appreciated note to remind me that there will be ups and downs and that things will get better. She has gone above and beyond to support all of her athletes and our Team Triumph club, by providing almost daily strength, yoga, and spinning videos that have been uploaded to Youtube for anyone who needs a little motivation during these challenging times as well as many words of encouragement. I am grateful for her support and encouragement. ❤️
Anita Lacelle Taylor
Training with Team Triumph for 7 months (so far) made me faster and stronger while building nourishing connections with like-minded fitness nuts and shattering the expectations I had of myself. TT is a crew of inspiring people pursuing epic individual goals and encouraging each other along the way. Julia and her team have expert knowledge and provide a thoughtful evidence-based group program that works. I am privileged and thankful to have Team Triumph in my neighborhood and can't wait to get back to the pool!
Alex Bourne
I want to thank you for always putting our well-being at the forefront of your business model. You suspended face-to-face programs in a timely manner, leading the way in a fitness business world that took much too long to respond and put their members’ health and the community at risk. You « triumphed « in quickly acting to flatten the curve.
Your caring nature resulted in a series of innovative and fun virtual sessions and opened them to the community. I am missing the live interaction now that I am working for a few months but I appreciate that I can access the videos according to my schedule. Yin/yang session tonight, just what I needed.
Not to mention the check-ins, the home deliveries, the charitable events. Priceless.
Simone Rose-Oliver
