One of the shorter events available this year is the 1-Mile Swim on Labor Day Monday. The event will leave from Dale's at 8:30 a.m. with a 1/2 mile swim out and 1/2 mile swim back. A personal escort is not required for the 1-mile swim. We will have certified lifeguards (thanks YMCA!) in boats following swimmers. (Note: A personal escort in a boat or kayak IS required for the 4 mile swim). Thinking about making the "Big Swim," but not sure you can make the distance? Give the 1-mile swim a try this year and make the 4-mile swim your goal next year. We hope the shorter distance events will encourage new participants to "Take the Lake" Labor Day weekend! Register online at takethelake.org/register.
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Here's a look at the certified 5K route leaving from Elizabeth Brinkley Park and the 1-Mile Fun Run route. The 5K starts Saturday morning, August 31, at 8 a.m. and the Family 1-Mile Fun Run starts at 9:30 a.m. The 10K Family Bike is at 10:30 a.m. We'll have a fun family celebration with games, food, and fun at the park while events are underway. Register for events online at https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/LakeWaccamaw/TaketheLake. Packet pick-up will be at Body Shapers Wednesday and Thursday before Labor Day weekend, at Take the Plate pasta supper and morning of the event. 5K route - 8 a.m. start Saturday, August 31 at Elizabeth Brinkley Park 1 Mile Family Fun Run - 9:30 a.m. start Saturday, August 31 at Elizabeth Brinkley Park
Youth and Adult size Take the Lake t-shirts available at Lake Time Vintiques and Body Shapers7/25/2019 Laythan and Gracie Stocks stopped by Lake Time Vintiques with their grandmother, Julie Stocks, to check out the youth-sized Take the Lake t-shirts. Marie has youth and adult size shirts available at Lake Time. Body Shapers in Whiteville is helping us with t-shirt sales, too.
T-shirts available online at https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/LakeWaccamaw/TaketheLake. Thank you to our t-shirt sponsors: Columbus Regional Healthcare System, The John A. McNeill Family, Liberty Healthcare, Lake Waccamaw Lions Club, Hills, Friends of Rube McCray Memorial Library, Council Tool, ATMC, Southeastern Community College, Carolina Sports Medicine, BB&T, International Paper and Joe's Barbeque. Stop by Body Shapers in Whiteville and see Jeff & Cindy Faulk and Donnie Hammonds to purchase your 2019 Take the Lake t-shirts. Body Shapers will offer packet pick-up Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 29 from noon to 6 p.m. each day. T-shirts also available for purchase at Lake Time Vintiques (photo coming soon!). Youth to adult size XL are $12 each and 2XL $13 each. Ladies v-neck shirts available (run small, so size-up). Order t-shirts online and pick them up at packet pick-up at Body Shapers, Take the Plate, or during TTL weekend before your event. Click on this link for online registration: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/LakeWaccamaw/TaketheLake Take the Lake would not be possible without our generous sponsors! We are grateful for their support and for providing a fun, family-friendly weekend of fitness challenges for Columbus County. Special "thanks" to Body Shapers and Lake Time Vintiques for help with t-shirt sales and Brett Gore for setting out the lake buoys for the swim events. Take the Lake t-shirts are almost ready! We will let you know when they are available for sale at Body Shapers in Whiteville and Lake Time Vintiques in Lake Waccamaw. You can pre-order t-shirts online during registration, and 5K and 1-mile swim participants receive a t-shirt as part of their registration fee. Youth to adult sizes are $12 each and 2XL are $13 each. THANK YOU to our t-shirt sponsors - Columbus Regional Healthcare System, Liberty Healthcare, The John A. McNeill Family, ATMC, Carolina Sports Medicine, Council Tool Company, Friends of Rube McCrae Memorial Library, Hill's Food Stores, International Paper,
Joe’s Barbecue, Lake Waccamaw Lion's Club, and Southeastern Community College The 11th Annual Take the Lake is Labor Day weekend at Lake Waccamaw. Online registration is open at www.TakeTheLake.org. Here's a look at the 2019 schedule of events.
Events this year take place on Saturday, August 31, and Monday, September 2, with a schedule of shorter events with a 3-year plan to add back the long distance events as Lake Waccamaw recovers from Hurricane Florence and improvements are made to Lake Wacccamaw State Park trail system. Friday, August 30 at 5:30 p.m. is the annual Take the Plate Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser at Lake Waccamaw United Methodist Church. Eat-in or take-out. Donations accepted Saturday, August 31 - All events start and finish at Elizabeth Brinkley Park in Lake Waccamaw *8 a.m. 5K certified by USA Track & Field. Start and finish at Elizabeth Brinkley Park. Registration for this event is $20 thru June. 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Take the Lake Celebration at Elizabeth Brinkley Park with children’s games & breakfast fundraiser 9 a.m. 5K awards presentation 9:30 a.m. 1-Mile Fun Run at Elizabeth Brinkley Park - Free 10:30 a.m. 10K Bike at Elizabeth Brinkley Park - Free Sunday, September 1 Event-free day Labor Day Monday, September 2 8 a.m. Traditional Lee J. Greer Labor Day 4-Mile Swim. Leaves from Dale’s or the dam depending on wind direction - Free *8:30 a.m. 1-Mile Swim leaves from Dale’s on a front and back route. Registration for this event is $20 thru June. Noon 6-Mile Paddle from the dam to Dale’s following the perimeter of the lake. Route will be determined by wind direction - Free For more information visit www.takethelake.org or on www.facebook.com/takethelake Editor's note: Grant submitted this article several years ago for a "Take the Lake Corner" series of articles. I really like this book he reviews Younger Next Year and it's point of view and easy way of explaining the importance of a consistent exercise program. It "makes sense" and it "doable." As with any new exercise program, consult your physician before beginning.
By GRANT EGLEY, Take the Lake Steering committee The phrase, “You have to age, but you don’t have to get old,” may not make sense to you, but it is the message of Younger Next Year, a New York Times best seller about health and fitness. The authors, Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D., say that you can’t turn back time, but you can turn back your biological clock. The secret is to adopt a healthy lifestyle, which includes regular exercise early in life and continuing it for the rest of your life. Do that and you can feel like a 50-year-old when you are 80. The authors’ language is frank, but they want to impress you that your life is at stake. They say that too many people are dying or becoming disabled at a much too early age. It is not about just living a long life; it is about being healthy and active while living a long life. Vigorous regular exercise, at least brisk walking, is the most important component of an active and healthy lifestyle. They also emphasize that you should not start an exercise program without first checking with a medical doctor. “Some 70 percent of premature death and aging is lifestyle related. More than 50 percent of all illness and injuries in the last third of your life can be eliminated by changing your lifestyle in the way we suggest,” according to the authors. “Once you pass the age of 50, exercise is no longer optional. You have to exercise or get old. Life is an endurance event. Train for it.” The book’s take-home message is that most people can be active and productive up to their 80s if they follow a few rules of a healthy lifestyle. Too many people simply do not prepare themselves for a long and healthy life. This book is mainly for the age 20-50s crowd because they need to start now and prepare themselves for later years. Those over 50 can also benefit from reading the book, but it is difficult for them to break the harmful habit of many years of a sedentary lifestyle. Lodge says that vigorous regular exercise is very important because it improves the efficiency of our circulatory system. Losing weight, improving endurance and increasing muscle strength are important benefits of exercise, but maintaining an efficient circulatory system is the main benefit. Each one of the billions of cells in our body needs to be supplied with oxygen and food, and to have carbon dioxide and waste products removed. Fine capillaries of the circulatory system provide this service. If the service fails, bad things happen. For example, when tiny coronary arteries servicing heart muscle cells are blocked, we have heart attacks. Lodge says, “Hearts don’t fail; coronary arteries do. They get blocked, they clot, and we die.” Exercise (also proper diet) helps prevent blockage of the circulatory system in general. Exercise stimulates blood flow throughout our bodies. With regular aerobic exercise, our bodies build new networks of capillaries that service the cells. Lodge says that at rest, only 20 percent of our blood flows through the muscles, but with exercise that number rises to 80 percent in a trained athlete. We all are not trained athletes, but we should similarly benefit to some degree. We started life with a body capable of being very active for many years. Science now says that in order to keep this capability, we must continue to be active throughout our lives. The sedentary lifestyles of too many of us lack the activity needed to maintain that capability. Regular exercise can fill the void created by the sedentary lifestyle. In other words, exercise can help make up for the lack of a healthy lifestyle. The above is only a sample of the authors’ statements about the benefits of exercise and a healthy lifestyle. It is not a typical how-to-do-it book. Its main message is to start an active lifestyle early in life and continue it because “your life is at stake.” I urge you to take a look at this book. I stopped Tim and Edna Dowless' shop to take a sneak peek at the 2019 Take the Lake t-shirts. They are super soft and comfy. Check out the women's v-neck design. Youth to adult sizes $12 each and 2XL $13 each. You can order t-shirts online during registration. Soon t-shirts will be available for sale at Body Shapers in Whiteville. We'll announce when the order has been delivered.
Are you ready to Take the Lake? 2019 Registration is OPEN! Use this link to access our new online registration powered by RunSignUp. For the 5K and 1-Mile swim with entry fee, register during June for the "early bird" discount. https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/LakeWaccamaw/TaketheLake
Happy Spring! The Take the Lake Steering committee has been busy making plans for a super fun 2019 Take the Lake event this Labor Day weekend.
We have an updated and refreshed schedule of events we think will be fun for families and dedicated fitness buffs. We hope the schedule accommodates our awesome participants, volunteers, and the LW EMS, LWPD and LWFD, LW City staff and LWSP Rangers that served us so faithfully during Hurricane Florence. It's a re-building year for many, and the TTL steering committee has a 3-year plan to work our way back to the awesome weekend of fun, fitness challenges and fellowship everyone loves. Thanks for your support as we introduce in the next two weeks the new and refreshed 2019 Take the Lake. Registration will open June 1, 2019. Thank you to Tim and Edna Dowless for our new TTL logo design. The swim will start at Dale's and finish at the Lake Waccamaw dam.
Thank you to everyone who came out this evening to take part in our 2018 Take the Plate festivities.
The personal endurance challenges begin Saturday morning with the Walk/Run. Both the 16 mile and family fun 6.5 mile walks begin at Elizabeth Brinkley Park. Those who have pre-registered for the 16 mile walk can begin any time after 7:15 a.m. The full release start is at 8 a.m. The family fun walk will begin at 8:30 a.m. Personal endurance challenge event two is the Paddle on Sunday morning. This event begins in the Dale's Seafood parking lot at 8 a.m. We expect this 14 mile event to take between 3 to 6 hours to complete depending on the fitness level of the participant. Sunday afternoon is time for the Bike events. The 16 mile Bike/Hike that will run through the Lake Waccamaw State Park begins at 2 p.m. at Elizabeth Brinkley Park. The family fun ride begins at 2:30. Remember - a bike helmet is required for both rides. Our course monitors will be removing riders from the course if they are not wearing a helmet. Monday we celebrate the traditional event that started it all - the Swim across Lake Waccamaw. The 4 mile swim will begin at 8 a.m at either Dale's Seafood or the Lake Waccamaw dam. As wind direction determines the course, please check the Take the Lake Facebook page for start location. Signage will also be posted with direction for the starting point. Monday also sees the toughest challenge of the weekend. The X-Treme combines all four events and distances into a single day. This event's start is again determined by wind direction and will either be at Dale's Seafood or the Lake Waccamaw dam. Signage will indicate the location. The event begins at 6:30 a.m. and participants must finish by 10 p.m. Thank you again for being a part of the 10th anniversary Take the Lake event! Come out to join the fun as we officially kick off Take the Lake weekend with the annual Take the Plate Pasta Supper in the Lake Waccamaw United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
Online registration for the 2018 Take the Lake events is closed.
You will still be able to register on site the day of the event. Thank you for your support of Take the Lake! We are just 3 1/2 weeks away from Take the Lake weekend.
It is important to remember that even the family events represent personal endurance challenges that require preparation. Make sure that you are taking time on a regular basis to train in the heat to match the conditions of the weekend. Remember to train for the bike ride wearing a helmet as we require every rider to wear a helmet for the entire bike ride. Although a portion of the full ride will require a dismount to push the bike along a trail in the Lake Waccamaw State Park, the helmet is still required. As part of our commitment to safety, we will be providing water stations every 2 miles along the route. Volunteers will also be stationed throughout the course to provide support. We look forward to seeing you at Take the Lake 2018! Our website issues have been mostly resolved, meaning the time to register is now!
The password protection error message has been eliminated. If you have any additional problems with the registration process, contact our webmaster - Melissa Hopkins. As you may have noticed, our website is sending some conflicting messages about schedules for Take the Lake. We are working on converting over to the 2018 dates and information, but have run into some technical complications. This has specifically impacted the opening of registration for the 2018 events.
We truly and deeply apologize for this inconvenience. Please be patient with us. In the meantime, we will continue to update the blog with details about this year's 10th anniversary celebration encompassing mind, body and spirit! Also keep up with our preparations through our Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/takethelake/. Our 2018 Take the Lake theme details are coming soon, along with several changes to the site.
In the meantime, we can let you know that the 2018 events will again take place over Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 1 -3, 2018 here in Lake Waccamaw. There is a lot of excitement building within the planning committee as this year's theme comes together. Any guesses as to what it will be as we celebrate our 10th anniversary? The annual Take the Plate event is this Friday from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the Lake Waccamaw United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. This special event is for Take the Lake participants and spectators alike. Donations will be accepted with proceeds going to the church and a health related mission project. Honoring the health professionals theme, there will be commentary by Terrie Priest and Kim Smith. T-shirts and water bottles will be available for purchase.
Online registration for the Take the Lake 2017 events is closed. We had 324 individuals register for the traditional PECs plus three individuals taking on the X-Treme!
If you didn't complete the online registrations in time, there will be on-site registration for each of the events during the weekend. Please arrive a little earlier to get through the registration process. See the schedule in the post below. |
Take the Lake would not be possible without our generous sponsors. Thank you for supporting fitness and good health in our community! Thank you to our sponsors! Event Sponsors Columbus Regional Healthcare System The John A. McNeill Family Liberty Healthcare T-Shirt Sponsors ATMC Carolina Sports Medicine Council Tool Company Friends of Rube McCrae Memorial Library Hill's Food Stores International Paper Joe’s Barbecue Lake Waccamaw Lion's Club Southeastern Community College Poster Sponsors BB&T Baldwin Woods Pharmacy Dale's Seafood Restaurant Powell and Powell Law Sam’s Pit Stop Special Service Sponsors Body Shapers Fitness Center Collier’s Jewelers Lake Time Vintiques The News Reporter Theme Time!Take a few minutes and reel through the years of Take the Lake, as we review the many themes and posters that have helped make fitness more fun in Columbus County! Click here
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that the second-most-popular Boy Scout merit badge in the U.S. is for Swimming? And the ninth-most-popular is Personal Fitness? Yes! Source: Scoutingmagazine.org
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