Urban Tri

Change of weather, change of schedule, change of attitude.

Well, it’s gotten damn cold again here in Minnesota and thoughts are turning to warm locales and maybe some off season training. If you’re looking for a training camp here are a couple of suggestions:

http://gleasoncoaching.com/2012/10/05/spring-desert-training-camp/

http://www.lifetimeendurance.com/public/433.cfm

Training indoors can be a tedious bore after awhile. Check out these options and get some real road time to break up the cold weather.

With the dawning of a new year comes the fun of counting stuff in the store. Urban Tri will be closed on Monday, January 7th for our annual inventory. Counting stuff is super fun.

Urban Tri will be closing at 3:00 PM on Monday, December 31st for New Year’s Eve. We’ll be closed all day Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 and then back open as usual on Wednesday, January 2nd.

Urban Tri will be open on Christmas Eve from 11 AM to 3 PM, closed on Christmas Day and then back at it again as usual December 26th.

The holidays are right around the corner and to make your or a loved one’s shopping a little easier we have put bows on popular gift recommendations around the store.

You can also take advantage of our “Holiday Registry.” Stop in and tell us what items you’d like around the store and we’ll enter the list into your profile card. People shopping for you can request your list and we’ll print it out for them.

Pedal for Pancakes starts Saturday, November 3rd. Doors open at 9:00 AM. Ride for 60 to 90 minutes and then eat our free pancakes. Want to use one of our trainers? Send an email with “Kinetic Reservation” and that Saturday’s date in the subject line to info@urbantri.net. On Friday we will send a confirmation to the first 10 people to reserve and let everyone else know they are welcome to join us with their own trainer.

Kinetic Trainers to Sponsor Pedal for Pancakes

This year Kinetic has been generous enough to help us set up a fleet of demo trainers. This year we’ll have 10 Kinetic Road Machine fluid trainers at our disposal. If you’re one of the first 10 people to reserve a trainer each week it’ll be waiting at Urban Tri for you to use. This gives folks who don’t have a trainer an opportunity to try, what we believe to be, the best fluid trainer on the market and it gives people with an older trainer the chance to see if it’s time to upgrade. Either way, all you have to do is bring your bike in and ride. And after the ride – pancakes! And it’s all free.

How could this get any better? Well, we will be giving away a brand new (not a demo model) Kinetic Road Machine fluid trainer with a riser block and a Kinetic cycling jersey and Kinetic cycling shorts at the end of the Pedal for Pancakes season (roughly the end of April.) To qualify, just participate in any of the Pedal for Pancakes sessions and enter the drawing. Every time you join us for Pedal for Pancakes you can enter the drawing, meaning the more chances you have of winning. It’s kind of like The Hunger Games but without the starvation and murder. May the odds and pancakes be always in your favor and flavor.

Too fast! NBC will be broadcasting the Ironman World Championships this Saturday, October 27th from 3 pm to 5 pm.

We will have the show on the big screen. We’ll give out free Pineapple and Island Nectar Roctane gels and rumor has it the speakeasy might be open again.

With the weather as beautiful as it has been I feel somewhat bad posting this, but soon enough the weather won’t be quite so nice and we won’t be able to ride our bikes outside. Urban Tri just received a shipment of Kinetic Road Machine fluid trainers and accessories. We love these trainers and think you will too (when you have to ride in place in your basement.)

Stop in and check them out. If you purchase a trainer, mat, sweat catcher and riser block you’ll get 20% off the accessories.

We will also be using this model as demo trainers for our upcoming Pedal for Pancakes rides starting Saturday, November 3rd. Look for more details coming soon.