Welcome to 2012
From
The Great Smoky Mountains Triathlon Club
& Race Odyssey Events Timing Services
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Just click on "Race Schedule" to see our lineup for 2012, click on the race your interested in, then decide if you want to register on line or via mail; click on that choice and your on the way. We look forward to having you here at the races with us and enjoying your stay in the beautiful north Ga and western NC mountains.
Some News From the Mountains:
We were recently contacted by the folks at Ironman and informed that we were no longer able to use the words; Iron, Ironman or anything to do with their copy right on things to do with Ironman. So, we have had to make a change in our Half IM races name…. Now, instead of calling our race The Beast of the East Half Ironmon Triathlon, we are now calling it; The Beast of the East Half Steelman Triathlon. If, when your looking around any of our race materials and see the word Ironman or anything having to do with them, please let us know so we can change it.
We will not be doing our Beast of the East Sprint Triathlon this year, but we will be replacing that event with our Beast of the East Half Marathon, 10k & 5k run on May 19th and our Beast of the East Half Steelman on May 20. This is a weekend of races that will get your triathlon season off to a running start (swimming and biking too).
Make your plans now to come to the North Ga. Mountains and join us.
Thoughts to live by:
Andrew Johnston
In the pill-popping, this-for-that, allopathic approach to medicine, quick often means temporary. But just as disease doesn’t develop overnight, healing takes time, too. For every year you’ve had a particular condition, it will usually take one month to return to health.
Though our caloric intake has increased by more than 25% since the 1950s, our activity level has been on a steady decline. We are burning eight hundred fewer calories a day than we did at the start of the 20th century and half of that could be attributed just to sitting down. You burn approximately 60 more calories an hour standing up than when seated. So sitting at your office desk for eight hours a day equals 480 calories not being burned.
