Peace, Thanks and Recognition  

written by LuLu

Just want to take this opportunity to let you know that Laura Roberts will be leaving us in mid-May. She is shipping out to Suriname! She has joined the Peace Corp. Thanks, Laura, for working toward making the world a better place. We'll miss you. If you see Laura during this next month, please wish her well.

Also, wanted to thank Jackie for representing the MW at clean-up day! Jackie and her husband helped to install new racks in the main bay. Jackie has the strength of 30 Masters Women plus 2!

We want to recognize and thank our captains from the 2007 season, Katie Spiker and Vern Keenan. They both brought much knowledge, experience and organizational skills to our team to keep the MW running smoothly! Something thankful is in the works for them--stay tuned.

~LuLu

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Wired to Win Pedal Pittsburgh  

written by Wendy

Several of us had the chance to see the incredible OmniMax film today called Wired to Win--which profiled the amazing capacity of the Tour de France athletes and the human body. Coming away so inspired and with such confidence in our winter training and our bodies...we are now ready to take on the rivers and the terrain.

Pedal Pittsburgh takes place May 18. Group discounts are available to groups of 10 or more. Several of us have participated over the years. This year...as part of our social calendar...I am offering an opportunity to enter as part of the official Three Rivers Masters Rowing Team.

http://www.pedalpittsburgh.org/Home.htm

If you would like to be part of the TRRA team for Pedal Pittsburgh (25 mile ride) drop me a note. I will handle coordination for any and all that keep me posted of their plans by April 20th.

Wendy Lomicka
wenlom@aol.com

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Erg Baby Erg!!  

written by Jen B

We had a great turnout for the 2k erg challenge today. Wendy was so enthusiastic that she woke up thinking that she'd rather do a 2k than sleep - right on girl...!! (She must have been having nightmares :-). Anyway - great job to everyone - can't wait to see the scores and how everyone placed in their age category - and more importantly if the women beat the men!! One more week and we'll officially be ready to get on the water wooo hoooo!!

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Masters Men Mulch- a job well done!!!  

written by Coach DW-P

Hi all,
Next time you're down at Lambert Boathouse, you won't be able to help yourself but to stop and admire the fantastic mulching job up top and down by the water. With couple of wheel barrows, many shovels & rakes and pitchfork, the men "dug in" for an arduous, but satisfying, three hour job. The key to the morning's success was Bob Ball's rock rake. All were amazed and wowed with the dexterity and handling displayed by Ball.

MM captain Steve Carr, organizer and leader of our the effort, was capably assisted by Bob Ball (aforementioned and well known "gentleman"), Chuck Criss (also a "gentleman), Chris Ryan (yet another "gentleman"), Mark Puda, Matt Loughren, John Watt, Jason Monnel and Coach DWP.

Thank you men!
A great effort and job well done with today's (3/29) TRRA Spring Clean-up.

p.s. Special accolades to Chuck for talking with Washington Landing's landscapers to discover that coincidentally, this very next week they will be bringing in an additional 4 ton's of mulch themselves for the island- and will by happy to "supplement" our efforts where maybe it appears a little thin. Chuck, thats a heads-up play!

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New Blog  

written by Katie

Hi All,

Just wanted to point out a few items that I LOVE about our new blog:

Links on the right side are awesome! Bookmark this blog and you will have access to all of our documents in one location!

Battle of the Sexes points tally - women please take note that the men have started the year ahead. Keep training so when Pittsford comes we will be racking in the medals :-)

Thank you Jen!! for all your hard work on this. It is great!

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I'm finally done with the blog... for now  

written by TRRA AM Masters Admin

Hey everyone - what do you think of our new blog? Let me know what you like, don't like, want to see added, or find things that are broken or not displaying correctly. I will be removing all of the junky sample posts for a fresh start once we are ready to begin blogging!

The blog will be used to promote our teams (mens & womens for now) & communicate all of the fun and exciting news that happens along the way. It's external facing - meaning that the public will see it - so please use discretion when posting. The Pittsburgh Paddlefish have been using a blog for quite a while...check out their site: http://paddlesup.blogspot.com/ to see what kind of stuff they post. Their blog was the inspiration for this one....thanks Paddlefish!!

I will eventually figure out a way for us to all share photos. I haven't gotten that far yet. All ideas are welcome. In addition - I think it would be cool to have some graphic or photo in the header (instead of the drab grey background). Photoshop gurus unite - and help me out ;-)

Calling all writers - I know we have a lot of creative people on this team and in order for this blog to work - we need people to post to it. If you want to be a blog writer please send me an email with the subject line "Add me to Blogger" so that I can add you to the authors list. You'll need a google account - which we all should have by now anyway...right?

For those that are new to the blogging scene (that was me before I started this endeavor) - I'll provide some instructions on how to get started. For now - I'm just looking for feedback on the look & feel and the content/features of the blog.

Jen

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Masters Women Compete at the 2007 Head of the Charles  

written by TRRA AM Masters Admin

HOCR 2007

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