Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Lecture in NYC Tomorrow Night - Mitch Thrower Presents 10 Secret Tips for Triathlon Excellence & A Few Life Lessons for Passion and Profit

I'm sitting on the tarmac at Kennedy Airport. The plane currently in our arrival gate can not push back because of this crazy ice blizzard on the east coast this Valentine's day. I'm here in NYC for meetings and also giving a presentation tomorrow. If you can come - please do: Mitch Thrower Presents 10 Secret Tips for Triathlon Excellence & A Few Life Lessons from Passion and Profit.

7:00PM February 15th, Thursday 2007
Location: SBR MULTISPORTS
SBR is located on the north west corner of 58th street and 7th Avenue.
(203 West 58
th)

Forgive the nutty self-promotion
below - but this is what they put in the newsletter promoting the lecture tomorrow night. You know PR is full of fluff - I'm just a normal guy devoted to participatory sports who loves Triathlon. Do you remember that stuff Marshmallow Fluff? Can you imagine if they served Fluffernutter sandwiches (a peanut butter and marshmallow fluff combo) at triathlon aid stations with no water?

From the
SBR Newsletter: “Mitch Thrower is an accomplished author, entrepreneur, and a 16x Ironman triathlete who is coming to SBR to share his tips for excelling in the sport of triathlon as well as lessons for balancing your passions and professional life. Mitch Thrower is the Author of "The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today’s Fast-Paced Business Environment," and is the author of the popular monthly column, "Starting Lines" in Triathlete Magazine, and the Ironmitch.com blog. A serial entrepreneur, Thrower is the co-founder of The Active Network, Inc, a software, marketing and registration powerhouse. Thrower is also one of the owners of Triathlete Magazine. In addition, he co-founded and was the CEO of The Active Europe Network, Ltd. -- which operates using Active’s business model in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Thrower is also Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a foundation whose first initiative is Project Active, a non-profit program that provides money, mentoring, encouragement and education to areas of world tension, most recently providing soccer balls and jerseys to the children of Iraq, Haiti and Mexico. Mitch’s presentation will include the top 10 tips for Triathlon Excellence, contagious excellence, shortcuts to passion, lessons from the business of Triathlete Magazine and the Active.com story." Blah, blah, blah... I just hope I can make some folks laugh when I tell them what happened to me the first time I clipped my bike shoes to my bike...

This is a FREE event. Please RSVP to alison@sbrshop.com
Phone: 1-888-swim-bike-run
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