Ready for a great summer training for Take the Lake? Take your first step now by registering here for the Labor Day weekend event. 
We'll have the X-TREME! registration open shortly.

The Take the Lake race timer clock is appearing everywhere at fitness events around the county. 

Thanks to several sponsors who pitched in an extra $50, we're able to loan this expensive timepiece to organizers of fitness events. 

Volunteers use the clock to help record times, participants use it for motivation and for tracking their pace, and spectators are able to better engage in the event as they watch seconds elapse. 

Logos of our 2013 sponsors appear on this clock through this September, but there is still time to reserve a space on the 2014 clock for your logo - just contact us!

Through a joint effort of the Columbus County Farmers Market, the county extension service and Take the Lake, visitors to the market can enjoy a large, colorful banner celebrating the five area harvest festivals and promoting fitness events. Spring is really here, and it's time to start training!

Another ambitious effort to get the word out is our new Take the Lake Training Site yard signs. Starting in May or so, we'll like to see these in yards around the county. We will likely give them to sponsors as well as businesses and yards with "heavy traffic and visibility." 

We bought 100 of these 12" x 18" signs and 50 stands, so we should have plenty, and we might accept a $5 donation if you would like one in your yard.

I've been a bit nostalgic these days, looking back over the five years of Take the Lake. I stumbled across a slideshow of our first year in 2009 and was taken by two things; how quickly this community embraced a new fitness event, and how much we have grown since then.

Some say this latest push started with Drop a Ton in 2005 when we all lost more than two tons of weight, but the slideshow also remembers Lee