With race season in the rearview mirror for most BTC athletes and the cooler weather upon us, many of you may be thinking: “How should I spend my time with no races on my calendar?,” “How do I get my training in when the days get colder and shorter?,”or “Off-season? What the heck is an off-season? I train 110% 365 days a year!” If you’ve had any of these thoughts, then the BTC Off-Season Training Clinic is for you (especially you, last person)!

Join us on Tuesday, November 7th at 7 pm at Wild East Brewing for an esteemed panel of celebrity coaches Ben Kessel, Peter Helling, and John Hirsch, who will take you through the basics of how to structure your off-season to help you get faster for next year, share some off-season training tips, and answer any questions you might have. This program will be appropriate for athletes of all experience levels, but in particular for beginning and intermediate athletes who may feel like they have not mastered how to spend their off-season or anyone looking to take their training to the next level.

We plan to cover topics such as:

Off-season training concepts and developing an off-season plan
Indoor bike trainers and software
Strength training
Skills development
Winter gear (Q: “Should I run in running shorts in freezing weather?” A: Yes!)

We hope to see you there!

If you have any questions that you’d like us to address, please feel free to submit then in advance here. We will do our best to address them at the clinic.

Interested in a long bike ride?

We are organizing a group ride from Brewster to Brooklyn, ~66mi / 100km for everyone that feels comfortable with this distance.
We will take a Metro North train in the morning up to Brewster and ride back to Brooklyn. Outside of the NYC portion of the ride, we will ride exclusively on the car-free Empire State Trail.
Please come prepared for a long fall ride, including repair kit, appropriate clothing for the weather, and fueling & nutrition.

We will meet inside Grand Central at 7:50am, and take the 8:09 Metro North train to Brewster.
You can purchase Metro North tickets on the MTA TrainTime app or inside the station before departure.

Since there are limited spots on the ride, please confirm that you can make this date and if your plans change please update your RSVP status as soon as possible to make space for someone else.
RSVP Now

Please come prepared with the route on your device if you have a bike computer:
https://www.strava.com/routes/3050293583145788650

(courtesy of the Mapmaker)

See you on Sunday!

Get ready to move at our next sponsor clinic, presented by Dr. Marc Bochner, a BTC Sponsor, 4x Ironman finisher and owner of Bochner Chiropractic and Sports Injury Care. Our Injury Prevention Clinic is open to BTC members of all ability levels, and Dr. Bochner will teach you how to train and race with a lower chance of injury.

 Here is what you can look forward to:

• Dr. Bochner will teach key exercises and provide guidance on proper recovery and self-monitoring for injury prevention.
• He will cover common late-season issues and peaking without injury for year-end races.
• Dr. Bochner will provide an overview of the Prepare to Compete screening system, developed by Dr. Bochner in 2010 based on his experience diagnosing and treating athletes, especially runners and triathletes, since 1991.  Prepare to Competeis an organized self-screening system to help athletes learn to self-monitor for the earliest signs of injury through testing key biomechanical and movement control patterns known to cause injury under the stress of training and racing.
• This is an ACTIVEworkshop, so be sure to wear workout clothes and be prepared to move around!