It was great to see so many people out and about this past week. Pascale Savard completed a Spartan Challenge. Luc Lapensee did the Perth double distance duathlon. France Girard completed the Perth Triathlon and even did an open water swim at Britannia! Coach Julia also did the Perth Tri but opted for swim strength instead. Julie McInnes set out to walk 10km a day and complete 500km of walking. I was so happy to be outside when she walked by my house the day she finished the 500km!
Pascale Savard took a break from sewing masks to complete the
Spartan Challenge!
With the Tremblant Half Iron challenge coming up, Anita Taylor and Glen Paradis were busy getting their long bricks done. Sophie Dagenais and Debi Zaret did the Triathlon Canadian National cycling series last week on Fulgaz and placed 8th and 10th overall on the Stanley Park course.
It was nice to see Louise Lewis-James back on the roads running and in the woods cycling again. Congratulations to Anna and Marc Belanger, and Robert Browne and Jenn Kellar on their new homes and welcome to my neighborhood! Can't wait until we can all meet-up in the Pond (which, sadly, is still closed).
It was great to hear from Brad Vlaming this week that the shoutout from Steve Swanwick worked! Brad jumped back onto Zwift on Thursday night! It was also great to welcome new member Bruno Baril from Petawawa onto the Thursday night virtual community rides. Welcome back to Ottawa to Janet Whitley and her family who just drove back from Salt Spring Island where they took shelter from the pandemic for the past few months. It was nice to see teammates Claude Pilette and Debi Zaret out swimming and running together in Tremblant last week. I saw that France St-Denis got her canoe out on the water and enjoyed some paddling time!
Debi and Claude met up for a physical distance run and a swim in Mt Tremblant
Brenda Ross and her husband did a really cool challenge this weekend
ULTRA MAY CHALLENGE!!
6 hours of running/6 hours of cycling in 48 hours.
Friday
8 pm run/9 pm bike
Saturday
4 am run/5 am bike
12 noon trail run/1 pm bike
8 pm run/9 pm bike
Sunday
4 am run/5 am bike
12 noon trail run/1 pm bike
All workouts were 1 hour in duration
All workouts were outside
Night rides were on a road bike
Day rides on a triathlon bike
Runs were mixed. Some trails, most road
Total kms completed
55.6km running
145.3km biking
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
