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Saturday June 4, will be our monthly unified club ride. This will be a "no-drop" ride leaving from East Beach at 8:15.

The ride will be the Santa Barbara Long Course bike course, out over Toro to Gub and back over Toro to East Beach. If you want to ride shorter or longer feel free to join us for part of the ride.

The ride will re-group in Summerland, at the turn on 192 in Carpinteria and at the bottom of Gub on the way out. On the way back it will be ride your own pace with someone sweeping at the back. The emphasis is on getting a good ride and getting to ride with friends! This is an open ride, you don't need to be a member to ride with us.

Redefine core.
Elevate your game.
Stay injury free.

Two prominent local legends, Peter Park and Mike Swan discuss how core strength and flexibility can elevate your game, help you get fast, go long and keep you injury free.

About our speakers:

Peter Park

(bio and photo from platinumfitnesssummerland.com)

Peter is the Founder of the Platinum brand and co-owner of Platinum Fitness Summerland. He brings a past rich with his own professional athletic achievements to his 23 years of experience training elite athletes, big-screen celebrities, top touring musicians, and common citizens that are serious about their fitness, mobility, and longevity. Peter’s training style teaches people about proprioception, which means "one's own" sense of their relative position in space as compared to the strength of effort being employed in their movement.

• 4 time All-State Volleyball player in high school
• College volleyball at University of Hawaii.
• Graduated BS degree from UCLA
• Numerous top 10 finishes in Ironman Triathlons
• 3x Worlds Toughest Triathlon winner
• 3x Catalina 50 mile ultra run winner
• 3x Nine Trails Ultra Winner
• Worked with numerous athletes in wide variety of sports
• Author of Foundation: Redefine your core, conquer back pain, and move with confidence
• Husband and father of 2

Mike Swan

An active ultra-runner, Mike spends time on the trails apart from his calling as owner and practicing physical therapist

(bio and photo from eliterehab.com)

at Elite Performance and Rehabilitation and gracious sponsor of the club. Podiums are quite commonplace for our April Speaker. With gifted athleticism, grit, and persistence, our speaker has been honored:

• the title of All American, 5 times,
• qualified and raced Hawaii's Ironman World Championship, a club record of 7 times,
• still holds the age-group record (1994) for long course (4:23:07) and (1990) for the Olympic (1:33:17) at Wildflower.
• All the while, training and rehabilitating athletes from finisher to Kona qualifier even before Elite's inception in 2002.

The ride will be the Santa Barbara Long Course bike course, out over Toro to Gubanador Canyon and back over Toro to East Beach. If you want to ride shorter or longer feel free to join us for part of the ride. The ride will re-group in Summerland , at the turn on 192 in Carpenteria and at the bottom of Gubanador on the way out.

On the way back it will be ride your own pace with someone sweeping at the back. The emphasis is on getting a good ride and getting to ride with friends! This is an open ride, you don't need to be a member to ride with us. Renaud will be leading the ride with Tammy and Jon Goodman for support.

Please check out these Road riding Rules of Etiquette

Arrive promptly at 8:00 am, roll out is 8:05 am:

• Location: East Beach
• 8:05 Group (17-20 mph average)
  • This group is for experienced riders
  • This is a "drop" group (which means the group may not stop and regroup)
  • Rolls out promptly at 8:05 am

** In inclement weather (rain), rides will be considered cancelled. Use your best judgement if in doubt.  

Please check out these Road riding Rules of Etiquette

Arrive promptly at 8:00 am, roll out is 8:05 am:

• Location: East Beach
• 8:05 Group (17-20 mph average)
  • This group is for experienced riders
  • This is a "drop" group (which means the group may not stop and regroup)
  • Rolls out promptly at 8:05 am

** In inclement weather (rain), rides will be considered cancelled. Use your best judgement if in doubt.  

Please check out these Road riding Rules of Etiquette

Arrive promptly at 8:00 am, roll out is 8:05 am:

• Location: East Beach
• 8:05 Group (17-20 mph average)
  • This group is for experienced riders
  • This is a "drop" group (which means the group may not stop and regroup)
  • Rolls out promptly at 8:05 am

** In inclement weather (rain), rides will be considered cancelled. Use your best judgement if in doubt.  

Please check out these Road riding Rules of Etiquette

Arrive promptly at 8:00 am, roll out is 8:05 am:

• Location: East Beach
• 8:05 Group (17-20 mph average)
  • This group is for experienced riders
  • This is a "drop" group (which means the group may not stop and regroup)
  • Rolls out promptly at 8:05 am

** In inclement weather (rain), rides will be considered cancelled. Use your best judgement if in doubt.  

Please check out these Road riding Rules of Etiquette

Arrive promptly at 8:00 am, roll out is 8:05 am:

• Location: East Beach
• 8:05 Group (17-20 mph average)
  • This group is for experienced riders
  • This is a "drop" group (which means the group may not stop and regroup)
  • Rolls out promptly at 8:05 am

** In inclement weather (rain), rides will be considered cancelled. Use your best judgement if in doubt.  

Please check out these Road riding Rules of Etiquette

Arrive promptly at 8:00 am, roll out is 8:05 am:

• Location: East Beach
• 8:05 Group (17-20 mph average)
  • This group is for experienced riders
  • This is a "drop" group (which means the group may not stop and regroup)
  • Rolls out promptly at 8:05 am

** In inclement weather (rain), rides will be considered cancelled. Use your best judgement if in doubt.