TIME FOR WINTER ERGING CHALLENGES

Concept2 has various ways of helping you keep your training on track this winter.  Two options include the Holiday Winter Challenge, which helps raise money for several nonprofits, and the January Virtual Challenge, which is a team event.  Join Team Nereid and help the club rack up some kms!  Here's how:

- Go to the Concept2 Online Logbook

- If you don't have an online logbook, sign up.
- Go to the Teams link
- Click Join Team and select Team Nereid.
- Go to the "Team Challenge" sections and confirm your participation in the January Virtual Challenge 2010 that starts in January.
- Each time you row on the erg or on the water, log your meters in your online logbook.  They will automatically count toward Team Nereid's totals.

TURKEY ROAMING IN BOATHOUSE

Twice in the last two weeks, an evening erger has left the thermostat at 65 degrees with many of the upstairs windows open!  Please, for the sake of the environment and the Nereid budget, take extra care to leave the thermostat at 50 degrees and ensure all windows are closed.  The thermostat should only be raised for meetings/gatherings, not for erging!

THANKS TO THE PAINTERS

Thanks to Erik King and the other volunteers who helped paint the interior of the boathouse the last two weekends.  Nice work!

ROWER OF THE YEAR TO BE AWARDED DECEMBER 5

The Nereid Annual Holiday Party will be the forum for announcing Rower of the Year, along with several other awards.  Be there or be square:  Saturday, December 5, at 7 pm.  Cost is $40.  Don't forget to RSVP!  If for some reason you did not receive in Evite, please rsvp to nereidsec@hotmail.com

COXSWAINS CLINIC

Temple University will hold its 7^th Annual Coxswains' Clinic from 9 am to 2 pm on January 30, 2010 at Kiva Auditorium on its Philadelphia campus.  Featured presenters include Mary Whipple, 2008 Olympic gold medalist, and Marcus McElhenney, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist.  Cost is $85 with pre-registration.  To register and learn more contact Gavin White at gavwhite@temple.edu

US ROWING E-MAG

Click here for USRowing's November e-magazine.

ROWING IN THE COLD AND DARK

Cold Weather:  Do not row unaccompanied in weather of 45°F or less, or water temperature of 45°F or less. There are thermometers on the boathouse (south bay door) and on the dock for submersion in water.

Rowing in the dark:  Boats must have proper bow and stern lighting, as prescribed by USRA.

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