HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Happy Holidays to all triathletes and everyone out there reading this. Enjoy the time with your friends and families this festive season. All group workouts (with the exception of HOP) are canceled until the first week of the new year. Have fun, relax, and eat up! We will see you all soon!

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY AUSTIN!

OULER Austin Parker had a birthday on the 18th. Sorry we are just now posting it. Austin is an amazing addition to our team and we are lucky to have him. Happy birthday Honey Badger!

CONGRATS TO OUL AWARD WINNERS!

Congratulations to Wendy Hammerman, Brian Coolidge, Mark Simmons,Shauna Hall, Gabrielle Vasquez-Baumeyer, Dennis Hoffman, Harvey Schnitzer, Richard Rivera, Mason Griffith, J Hermann Gruebler, Angie Henderson, Grant Glauser, and my amazing wife Rebekah Palaian for getting an annual Onurleft Sports award. What did they get? Well we present tonight, everyone will have to just wit and see!

HOLIDAY PARTY TONIGHT!

If you haven't RSVPED do so ASAP! Tonight's party should have about 50 OULERS and none other than Mr. Andy Potts himself and his coach, the great Mike Doane. Then remember, tomorrow is the first every Houston Triathlon Summit featuring Andy and Mike as our hosts for 2011!

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!

Happy Birthdays go out to Bill Baumeyer and Mason Griffith! Enjoy your day guys!

THE WEEK OF DEC 12-18, 2011

Monday - Triathlon Yoga - Studio OUL - 6:30pm
Tuesday - Memorial Park Run Intervals - 6:30pm
Wednesday - HOP Brick - 6:30pm
Friday - Andy Potts Meet & Greet @ LTF - 5:00pm-6:00pm
Friday - OUL Holiday Party @ Palaian House - 7:00pm
Saturday - Andy Potts Camp www.HoustonTriSummit.com - 8:00am-5:00pm
Sunday - Andy Potts Camp www.HoustonTriSummit.com - 8:00am-5:00pm
NO GROUP ACTIVITY ON SAT OR SUN - JUST POTTS CAMP

SATURDAY BRICK IS GROWING!

Great spin this past Saturday morning at the Onurleft Sports Studio. Good bricks by Harvey, Mark, Wendy, Shauna, Jeff, Rich and yours truly. Glad to see Tom too if only for an hour. Nothing like passing trainer time by playing Mortal Kombat life-size. 

GREAT WORKOUTS THIS WEEK OULERS!

Tuesday's 2-mile repeats at Memorial Park were brutal! Great job Harvey, Hermann, Brian, Mark, Wendy, Chad and Jason! Last night's House of Pain was packed once again with around 20 riders who killed it on the bikes (thanks Angie) then got off and ran 1.5-5 miles at a fast pace. WAY TO GO!

OUL HOLIDAY PARTY WITH ANDY POTTS!

This year our holiday party for OUL and OUM will be at our house. Special guest Andy Potts will be in attendance as we celebrate the end of a great year. It's potluck with the main course supplied by us. BYOB. We will have awards and prizes to give out! You should have all received an evite, RSVP as soon as you can.

HAPPY BDAY GREG!

OULER and OUMER Greg Johnson's birthday is today. Happy Birthday Greg!

BIRTHDAY SHOUT OUTS!

Happy b-lated birthday to Shannon Jack and Grant Glauser who had birthdays earlier this month and to Jason Bowers who celebrates his birthday TODAY!

IRONMAN COZUMEL HERE WE COME!

Good luck to our 3 IMCZ racers this weekend. Amy "Tough As Nails" Cadriel, Brian "The Contender" Coolidge, and Ricardo "The Powerhouse" D'Amico are headed out set new PRs and have a amazing race this weekend! FB, email, text or call them and wish them good luck. They've been training their butts off and are going to kill it!

HOP LOCATION CHANGE - THIS WEEK ONLY

Angie isn't able to do HOP this week due to the holidays. However, with a bunch of trainers and a studio readily available to us we will be having HOP at the OUL Studio this week. Same time, 6:30pm. Instead of a run we'll do some strength/core work after in the parking lot. Bring plenty of water and a towel, oh and your bike!

GREAT RUN WORKOUT AT MEMORIAL!

Great work last night goes out to Alex, Mark, Martin, Hermann, and Shannon! They toughed out those mile repeats at Memorial Park on the 1 mile course we had marked out. Thanks to recent IMAZ finisher Tom Hayden who stayed for 2/3 of the workout before leaving for a date : P

ANDY POTTS CLINIC OPEN FOR REGISTRATION!

http://www.HoustonTriSummit.com

CONTRATS TO ALL OUR IMAZ FINISHERS!

Austin lead the way as OULers hit the course in Tempe this Sunday. The water was a frigid 61 degrees and the weather (wind) was harsh but they got through it with times ranging from a PR of 10:12 for Austin to a 10:49 for Greg and a first IM finishing time of 13:18 for Tom. Angelica toughed her way through with a hurt knee and sprained ankle from mile 8 of the run to cross the line at 16:52:49. What heart and determination! Congrats to all!

GREAT HALLOWEEN WEEKEND FOR OULERS!

Congrats to everyone that competed in the Katy Triathlon this weekend. Zach, Martin, Kelly, Kristine all won their age groups. A special congrats to Debra Castell (5k), Michael Barney (10k), and Austin Parker (15k) for their overall victories in the Monster Mash Run!

OUL PRO GRANT GLAUSER MENTIONED ON IRONMAN.COM

OUL Pro Grant Glauser was mentioned in the results section (top 10 pro males) at the Austin 70.3 this past Sunday. Read about it here.... http://ironman.com/events/ironman70.3/longhorn70.3/shawn-skene-recaps-this-weekends-ironman-70.3-racing-in-lone-star-state#axzz1bfBeag00

GREAT WORK GRANT!

OULERS PERFORM ACROSS THE BOARD!

Whether it was Longhorn, 5150, Houston Half, or Octoberfest OULERS were PRing all over this past Sunday. Results are listed to the right. Congrats to everyone that raced/trained (OULERS and non OULERS). You are all inspirational!

GOOD LUCK TO OULERS RACING THIS WEEKEND!

This weekend there will be the most simultaneous races happening on one day for this entire season. We have OULERS doing Austin's Longhorn 70.3 Tri (Brian, Ric, Grant, Tom, Martin, Shauna, Walt, Debra, Amy, Maurice, and Maria), Galveston's 5150 Tri (Chris, Mark, Marc, Alex, Herman, and Eric), Fulshear's Octoberfest Tri (Zach, Ron, Kristine, Dennis and Brent) and Houston's Half Marathon (Aaron, Beka, Natalia, Richard, Kelli, and Pat). Good Luck to all! Results will be posted by Sunday night.

OUL SOCIAL TONIGHT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21ST.

Don't forget that the OUL Monthly Social for October is tonight, Friday, October 21st. If you have not responded to your evite please do so today before noon so that we can confirm our number of guests for our reservation. It's at Auntie Pasto's, 5101 Bellaire Blvd, Bellaire, TX 77401 and goes from 6:30pm-8:00pm. Come on by and bring a friend. Open to OULers and to those interested in joining the team. Each person pays their own bill. Here's the evite link... http://new.evite.com/#view_invite:eid=0024AARBSZI3CIXNSEPA6TZUCL73QM

SAT TRAINER RIDE & SUN LONG RUN

This Saturday will be our first indoor group trainer ride at our new studio. This is great for those of you doing Ironstar as we will be focusing on consistency and endurance with some hills thrown in. Trainers, mats, towels, and drinks will be provided. Lots of music, discussion, and an overall great environment. The studio address is 5050 Campbell Road, Suite A, Houston, Texas 77041. Free to OUL members, $10 to non members. Starts at 8am. The ride will be for 2 hours this Saturday although you can stop earlier or stay longer. There is plenty of area to run afterwards if you wish to do a brick. Due to all the races this weekend the Sunday long run is canceled for this week.

YOGA AT STUDIO ONURLEFT TOMORROW (THURS OCT 20)!

Tomorrow we will be starting up our Yoga program at the new studio taught by our Nationally Certified Yoga Instructor, Rebekah Palaian. The new studio address is 5050 Campbell Road, Suite A, Houston, Texas 77041. See you there at 6:30pm. Bring your yoga mat, sweat towel, and drink. We do provide the needed materials if you don't have, or forget something. Free to OULERS, $10 to non members. Make time for Yoga, you ALL need it : )

HOP IS TONIGHT (WED OCT 19)!

As usual Angie's House of Pain is on for tonight at 6:30pm at West U Fitness. Onurleft members are free. Everyone else is $10 (pay Angie). Bring your own trainer and towel if you'd like but we should have plenty. Don't forget your running shoes for a short run 3-6 miles afterwards. Weather should be great, we'll see you there!

AWESOME WEATHER FOR OUR TUESDAY RUN!

Great Fartlek Run at Memorial. Not as many because it's rest week for longhorn but still had myself (Aaron), Beka, Shannon, Brian, Mark, Jason, Darrell, and Chad. I think I spotted Missy out there too at one point. Great job to all, awesome weather!!!

ONURLEFT SPORTS OPENS NEW STUDIO/OFFICE!

Onurleft Sports will open (next week) a studio/office space on a trial basis through the end of this year. It's our hope that the new space will allow us to further spread our wings, organize, and host a couple more group workouts per week (yoga and another cycling class). All scheduled appointments will now take place at the studio/office unless other arrangements have been made. Please checkout our group workout page for specifics on the 2 new workouts. Our new address is 5050 Campbell Road, Suite A, Houston, Texas 77041.

GOOD LUCK TO OULERS RACING THIS WEEKEND!

OULER Chad Cook is doing over 20+ miles of running between yesterday and today at the Capital to Coast Relay. He's got his last leg (7 miles) left and he starts it any time now. Kay is doing the San Francisco Nike Women's Marathon tomorrow. Best of luck Kay! We also have 5+ OULERS doing Try Andy's Triathlon tomorrow. Good luck to Harvey, Jussi, Emily, Kristine, and Grant. Grant is trying to break the course record. All others are shooting for that PR and their place on the podium! Beka and I will be out there to coach, cheer, and help the C-Different athletes at the mount/dismount line. See you all tomorrow!

WEDNESDAY NIGHT HOP IS BACK!

Glad to see the attendance for Angie's Wednesday House of Pain is back! Debra, Brian, Austin, Grant, Emily, Shauna, Wendy, Aaron, Beka, Tom, Harvey, Hermann, Mark, Darrell, and our instructor Coach Angie who kicked everyone's butt! Nice to have cooler weather for the run after. Made the time fly by. Hope to see even more of you next week.

GREAT WORKOUT AT THE TRACK!

Awesome job by 17 OULERS at the track last night. Shauna, Gabrielle, Angelica, Ramon, Aaron, Beka, Chad, Richard, Debra, Brian, Chris, Kelly, Darrell, Tom, Martin, Greg, and Harvey pushed their thresholds with 8x800 repeats with 90 seconds rest. This cool weather is sure is helping! Keep up the hard work everyone (all OULERS).

GOOD LUCK TO OULERS RACING THIS WEEKEND!

Michael Barney and Natalia Peters will be running the 10 for Texas in The Woodlands tomorrow (10-Miler). Sarah and Greg Johnson will be competing in the Fairfield Triathlon and Mark, Aaron, Maurice, and Natalia (again) will be out at the Space Alliance 10-Miler (marathon warmup series event) on Sunday. Good luck to all! Results will be posted Sunday night or sooner.

CHANGE IN LOCATION FOR THIS WEEKEND'S SWIM

Our Saturday 3pm swim will be happening at Lake 288 this weekend. This is a great opportunity for you all to come out and get in an open water swim practice before the rest of your races this month and next. Remember it's the end of the season and those with events need to go out on a high note. Come get some advice and guidance on your swim and see how training has improved your swim in open water!

OUL WELCOMES KRISTINE TO THE TEAM!

We would like to welcome Kristine Harper to the OUL team! Kristine just signed up a couple days ago and we're still getting her all settled and used to Training Peaks and how everything works but after meeting her in person prior to her signing up we know she's going to be a great addition to the team. She's already a strong athlete and we're looking forward to helping her improve and reach her goals. We are glad to have you join us Kristine, welcome!

ANGIE'S HOUSE OF PAIN BRICK!

Thanks to Coach Angie & West U Fitness for a great workout this past Wednesday! Angie led Debra, Jeff, Herman, Shauna, Aaron, Tom, Maurice, Austin, Mark, Natalia, Angelica, Harvey, Ron, Cheryl, and Darrell on an amazingly hard indoor trainer ride then we all took to the streets for a 3-6 mile threshold run. The weather was amazing and everyone saw their run come together. Way to go OULers!

CONGRATS TO OULER BRENT BRASSEAUX!

OUL member Brent Brasseaux received some great news yesterday. Racermate (Computrainer) pulled his name out of the hat for their annual Computrainer drawing. They take thousands of total names from numerous events across the nation and around this time every year they pick a winner. Brent entered at the BSLT 70.3 Expo in Lubbock, Texas and found out yesterday he won a new Computrainer. He's improved so much over the years with us and is one of the most dedicated athletes we've ever coached. This will just help to elevate his cycling to an entirely new level. We are all very excited for you Brent, way to go!

GREAT NIGHT AT THE GARAGE!

Great work at the garage last night. Debra, Darrell, Shauna, Herman, Brian, Mark, Austin, Chad, Sabrina, Harvey, Natalia, Tom, and Aaron went 8.5+ miles! More than 75% was just below threshold, and 30-35% on steep inclines. Great work to all! If you didn't come this week remember next week is the track. Hope to see you out there.

OULERS MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

Incredible writeup through Janus about Juli Hall and Gabrielle Baumeyer. Click the link to check it out.
https://ww4.janus.com/community/miles-of-giving

GOOD LUCK TO OULERS RACING TOYOTA US OPEN AND DU THE BEAR THIS WEEKEND!

Good Luck to Coach Angie, Sabrina, Shauna, Angelica, & Gabrielle at the Toyota US Open this weekend! We also have Lisa, Garvin, and Ryan competing at the Du the Bear Duathlon this weekend. Good luck to all!

10 NEW TRAINERS PURCHASED FOR INDOOR CYCLING!

A HUGE thank you to Jim and Cindy at Houston Cycling Centres for giving us a great deal on our 10 new Kurt Kinetic Green Road Machine fluid trainers. We also have mats and riser blocks for each. This will be a huge boost to our ever-growing indoor cycling classes.

OULER RYAN LINDSAY FEATURED IN TEXAS RUNNER & TRIATHLETE

Sponsored athlete Ryan Lindsay is featured in the current issue of Texas Runner & Triathlete for his sprint distance overall victory at the 2011 Clear Lake Triathlon. Pickup a copy and check it out today! Way to go Ryan!

LONG RUN SUNDAY

For those of you not racing on Sunday, come join us at the Terry Hershey Park Gazebo at 7am for a long run. Groups of runners of all paces and distances will be hitting the trails.

ARE YOU RACING THIS WEEKEND?

Good luck to those OULers doing the Toyota US Open Triathlon in Dallas this weekend and those doing the Du the Bear Duathlon at Bear Creek as well! Lots of you are racing and training. Don't forget to report your results to Wendy!

19 OULers @ IMTX!

Good luck to the following athletes at IMTX this weekend!

Angie Henderson, Scott Arnold, Debra Castell, Chad Cook, Brian Coolidge, Ricardo Damico, David Frank, Steven Gim, Chris Isenberger, Greg Johnson, Buddy Mazurek, Maurice Mullaly, Greg Nunn, Natalia Peters, Shana Richardson, Richard Rivera, David Roberts, Angelica Robles, Anita Werner