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.
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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 Want to power train like a Navy SEAL? We picked a few cool websites to help you enjoy a healthy summer and prepare for an exciting Take the Lake, on our Links page.
We are! Labor Day weekend is only FIVE months away, and we on the Take the Lake organizational committee are very excited about this summer. We're going to announce this to the public next month, but you get an early peek at our new theme. We've selected farmers, ranchers and growers as the honorary subjects of the 2014 Take the Lake Training Season theme of "Agriculture." Earlier this year, we met with Dalton Dockery, Meleah Collier and Michael Shaw of the Columbus County Extension Service, and I do believe they may be more excited than we are (hard to be!). We're already working on our poster, brochure and banners, so you'll soon see Take the Lake sprouting up everywhere! We've posted all our photographs from the 2013 season and put everything in one place, on our Photographs page. Check it out as you gear up for the 2014 Take the Lake Training Season!
The City of Whiteville has received a sizable grant to improve the lives of pedestrians around downtown. Your help is needed for input, so put one foot in front of the other, click on this link and help make Whiteville a better place on two feet! Here is the overview page about the grant and the project. Outgoing Take the Lake Foundation president Mark Gilchrist hosted a party at his home Saturday to put a close to the 2013 Take the Lake Training Season. About 50 people dropped by to celebrate the year that "We called the cops!"
The party would have been a complete bore had Gilchrist organized it, so fortunately Pickett Council-Ellis and Harry Foley offered their many talents. Picket dressed up the joint so beautifully, it was hard
This article first appeared in The News Reporter, Sept. 5. With more than a thousand stories of success emerging over the past two weekends, Take the Lake has fulfilled its mission for another season. Faced with troublesome flooding of the dam and nearby park trails in August that forced Lake Waccamaw State Park Superintendent Toby Hall to close that area to this event, disappointed organizers
Click on the buttons below to see who you will be with this weekend._ If you do not see your name, simply register at your Personal Endurance Challenge. The Walk / Run and the Bike & Hike are expected to be pretty crowded, so arrive at least 30 minutes before start time.
If you believe you registered online and wonder why you don't see your name, well, there are any number of things you could blame it on, but please don't blame it on the friendly volunteers. Blame it on technology or blame it on the organizer, and work with us. We all hope to have beautiful days this weekend, and your smile will help. Here's the final word on all our Personal Endurance Challenges this weekend:
Tommy Mintz wins 2013 X-TREME!
I've been so busy preparing for Take the Lake next weekend that I haven't had a chance to revel in the success of the X-TREME! Saturday. Looks like we had 21 swimmers finish! One of our teams (Team Whitaker) had to cancel at the last minute, so we had five teams all gang-start at 8 a.m. (after their swimmers started at 6 a.m.) We had 17 solo racers finish, (including two the week before). A few others had to drop out of the swim because they couldn't get escorts, and one bailed out on the run because of joint issues. Tommy Mintz of Ash took home the solo winner's banner (for the third year!,) finishing in 10:23:09, and Old Chub cleaned the Team house with a time of 7:51:49, grabbing the treasured Red Shoe Award. We're (also) very proud of Samantha Lane, who in 2008 had earned the Jenny Stocks Youngest Swimmer Award, and who last year did the Grand Slam of all four Take the Lake PECs. On Saturday, the 15-year-old completed the X-TREME! becoming our youngest X-TREME!ist ever. Go Samantha! Watch Samantha's video interview about her Grand Slam. I have some photos and more details as soon as I can get back to this. We all have a big weekend ahead! Online Preregistration |
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
DID YOU KNOW...
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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