The weather was great, the ground was pretty dry and athletes had a great weekend of training.  It started off with a bang on Saturday morning – Pierre Pepin, former national coach, dropped in to chat with the athletes, talk about training and answer their questions.  Breege Girouard was able to come out again to introduce a dynamic warmup routine.  Also, Gregg Campbell and Christel Andree produced a well run and well coached series of events throughout the weekend.  Away from the range, the trails were mapped out with a GPS in hopes of creating new trail maps and permanent(well, semi-permanent) colour coded signs were posted around the loops.  Thanks to Craig Christie for the use of the quad(s)!

A big thank you to all coaches and support personnel for making this a successful event!  There were new T-shirts too!

Greetings:

Lake Superior Biathlon wishes to extend an invitation to all Biathlon Manitoba members to attend our 3 Day Biathlon Clinic being held in Thunder Bay on 17-19 September 2010.

Dr. Ian Newhouse along with Bill Meyer (a foremost biathlon coach in US) will be providing their expertise during the weekend training camp.

The camp comprises of both 0.22 Cal and 0.177 air rifles setting to accommodate biathlete in all levels of competition.  Seats are limited to 15 participants in each of the rifle types, thus register early to guarantee a spot.

More information, training schedule, and registration form can be viewed on our website at http://www.lakesuperiorbiathlon.com or by contacting the club at (807) 251-1630 in the evening hours.

Hope to see you there.

Daniel S. Guay

President

Lake Superior Biathlon

BAM has received funding to hold a training clinic on Oct 30-31. It will focus on  leadership skills and training in order to introduce young athletes to the sport of biathlon.  The National program is called Biathlon Bears and is aimed at parents and older athletes who would like to assist in the setup and running of club biathlon programs.

All expenses for this weekend will be covered by BAM and Biathlon Canada

Please contact Brian Walters if you are interested.

Click here for more information from the  Biathlon Canada site.

Check out the training page for August’s training schedule