December 2014

Hi everyone, it's the off season now but the secretary office is still running at full swing!

Sonic End of Season Party - OCCUPY JUNGLE

Item number one is definitely promoting and reminding all of us to join annual Sonic party on 16 Jan Friday night! Sonic Party Crew is calling you to the party of the year!

The following awards will be presented during the Party, awardee will soon receive invitation!

Sonic Time Trial Awards for Top 3 Men and Women
Sonic Improvement Awards
Sonic Triathlete of the Year

Facebook event is UP and you can buy your ticket in advanced at

https://regonline.activeglobal.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1656498

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT BEFORE 31 DEC!!!

New Club Kits

We are very exciting to announce two new items will be added to our Club Kit in 2015!

Team Training bag will become the new gift for all register member in 2015, the mesh training bag will be ideal for carrying our wetsuit or smelly running shoes to training!

Sonic Hoodie is something essential in the early winter morning, thank you Josie Ling for designing this, we are working with the vendor and expected delivery around late-Jan or early February. It will be an order-able item.

Sonic Hoodie

2015 Membership Registration and Renewal

The new membership form for 2015 will push online at

https://regonline.activeglobal.com/ssamembership2015

for all members to renew on 1st Jan. The annual membership fee will adjust to $350 for adult and $250 for junior members whereas national and regional squad triathletes will be discounted.

Same as last year, member of Sonic are encourage to also join the annual membership of Hong Kong Triathlon Association (TriHK) for the benefit of great discount in race entry organized by TriHK.

TriHK will email to individual member regarding the online renewal form, it would be similar process on Active Online platform as Sonic. Just don't forget to select Sonic Sports Association as your affiliated club.

Goal Setting

Goal Setting is important for life and also in our sports. Getting goals for the coming season will put us on track for motivation, achievement and build confident. In our sports, without a specific race goal you may lose focus at training, or you may not willing to push yourself to the next threshold at the hard sets. Set your goals be Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic and Time-based.

I am not the expert in sports psychology but I'd recommend you to Google Triathlon goal setting.

In Sonic, within the group of members we train together every week, we have set our goal for the first half of 2015. Team of 16 will race Challenge-Taiwan half-ironman distance or Short OD distance.

Then how?

We'd recommend you to prepare yourself to training in the gloomy and wet weather. TriHK will also organize Duathlon series in February and March, that would be a good lead to our target race.

New Year New Fee

In 2015, we will slightly adjust the training fee payment scheme after 6 years of freezing.

The 6 months prepayment of training will be replaced by new 'Quarter Pass' at $2000 for three months (Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun....etc);

Training fee for the following payment scheme will also be adjusted:

$1400 - Bi-monthly Pass (Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun...etc)

$800 - Monthly Pass

$1100 - 10 Days Flexi Pass

Meanwhile, Run Pass, Swim Pass and Casual Rate will be remained.

2015 Sonic Training Fee

Please read the detail on our website:

http://sites.sonicsports.org.hk/Home/sonic-training

and Anson will help to remain everyone at training.

January Training arrangement

Our training in 2015 will be kicked off in 4th January Sunday in Shek O! Monday run training will remain in Happy Valley, Wednesday swim training will move to Sun Yat Sun Swimming Pool in January due to the annual maintenance of Wan Chai Training Pool.

Please feel free to try importing our Calendar with this link:

https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/sonicsports%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics

Stay fit and healthy, have a great time with your friends and family during the festive seasons.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!