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Jeff Tambellini who has been training here for two off seasons signed with the Canucks last week!  He was working out at GWA when he got the offer and did not have to consider what it meant to be a Vancouver Canuck for long before deciding to accept. Congratulations Jeff!  Here is a link to the Canucks video interview with Jeff, Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province articles.

Yesterday Alan Horkoff and GWA participated in Norquay Elementary’s Health and Wellness Day.  Organized by Genvieve Adams the day exposed students to: fitness, yoga, nutrition, and games.  We had the opportunity to  lead 120 grade 6 and 7 students through some ladders and use medicine balls and educate them along the way.

Top Instructor: Alan Horkoff

Alan leads a Grade 7 class

Jon coming out of the swim in white

Jon and I did the Oliver Half Ironman this weekend as part of our preperation for the Penticton Ironman at the end of August.  It was an overcast day in Oliver–great racing weather.  The event was a 2 km swim, 93 km ride, and a 21 km run.  Jon finished with splits of swim 37.47, bike 2:42:38 and run 1:33:43 for a total time of 4:59:50.  I had splits of  swim 39:09, bike 2:47:46 and run 1:28:43 for a total time of 5:05:58.  (Including transition time)  Highlights were Jon finishing 78th overall and me finishing 20th overall in run split in a field of 1000.

So we had a great turnout of 18 people to the excursion!!  The session was led by Ina from the Yeti Snowshoe Series Race and we did a number of running loops within the trees up at Mount Seymour.  There is not much snow up there but we made the best of it, thanks to everyone who came out!  Next month`s GWA Excursion: Private Wine Tasting at John Clerides Marquis Wine Store.

We are organizing a monthly GWA Excursion and our first one is a Private Guided Snowshoe up at Mount Seymour.  We have hired Dave Howells from the Yeti Snowshoe Race Series to give us a lesson and then take us on a 1 hour adventure.  Good for all fitness levels, click for details below:

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Congratualtions to Kenndal McArdle (see the video here) of the Florida Panthers who scored his 1st NHL goal on Saturday night!  The Panthers were playing the Toronto Maple Leafs on Hockey Night in Canada and leading 1-0 with a little over 6 minutes remaining when Kenndal scored on a hard wrist shot off a two on one.  It was the insurance marker in a 2-0 win for Florida.

Today we had a Powered by Chocolate Milk video shoot where we filmed six 60 sec fitness tips.  GWA has signed a deal with the BC Dairy Foundation to be the official strength and conditioning experts for their campaign to promote Chocolate Milk as a recovery drink.  We have written a number of informative fitness articles to be put up on their site (with the videos) in the coming days!  Click on Health and Training.  Also, look for us in media and advertising campaigns soon.  We have some Chocolate Milk coming to the gym soon for all our clients to have….post workout of course!!  Photos below:

Jon talking, Troy demonstrating.  A $60,000 brain and the best athlete!!

A break in shooting the ladder drill

Jon’s serious look, ok no more screw ups…..your costing us money

Check out the webisodes of The Jim Show that was filmed last year at Groundwork Athletics. We went to the launch party last night and saw the teaser and first episode; it is a funny show!! Pretty cool to see our facility in it!

A number of Groundwork Athletics staff participated in a  few different events this passed weekend.  Alan Winterflood and Warren Hatch competed in the Fall Classic run at UBC on Sunday. Warren was competing in the 5k while Alan competed in the 10k.

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