Sunday Movie Ride starts 1/20

Join me this Sunday for Movie & Cycle at 9am!


We'll watch "Knight & Day"
Stay for as much of the movie as you want. This is an open ride, no instruction. Just time on the bikes.

It's FREE for Club Members & Cycle Moles. Guests are $10 for a fitness day pass and includes movie ride!
Please register so we know how many bikes to set up. BYOBike or ride one of our spinning bikes.
Click on this link, below, to save your spot!

Click here to sign up for the Movie Ride!

See you Sunday ~ Robin

We had fun at our New Member Social!

About 60 of our old and new members enjoyed good food, great company, and fun tennis!

Fairhaven Fitness Zombies donate $1000 to Blue Skies for Children

Thrillingham was AWESOME! 
We donated a little more than 50% of the net proceeds from Learn the Thriller to Blue Skies for Children and Live Consciously.  Check out this photo of Blue Skies for Children receiving the $1000 big check from the zombies!

There were about 100 zombies who performed the Thriller dance to crowds of thousands in Fairhaven and at Maritime Heritage Park on Halloween.  Amazingly fun ...and raised money for charity!  We also donated $800 to Live Consciously - the group who puts on Thrillingham each year to help defray production costs.

Thanks Zombies, you are horribly awesome! ~ Robin Zombie

ZOMBIANCE

Our new and returning Zombies left the first night of our 4-night learn the dance series having mastered the zombie march and roar turns.  Our head Zombie is Liam Elio who also owns and operates Peace Love Pizza - you can find him at the Saturday market and other events in the Northwest.

THRILLINGHAM IS BACK!

Hey Zombies! The Thriller is back!

Learn the Thriller Dance & Raise Money for Charity

All Fridays in October 7 – 9pm (10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28)

Don’t miss out on your last chance to learn the Thriller while raising money for two organizations: Blue Skies for Children and Live Consciously. This is our last year teaching the Thriller at the Club! Watching these videos reminds me how freaky AWESOME it all is.

Click here to watch the "behind the scenes" video from 2009
Click here to watch the Fairhaven Thriller Performance
Click here to ride the Zombie Bus
Click here to watch the Downtown Bellingham Thriller Performance

In the past two years our zombies have helped raise $2,500 through the Thriller dance series for Blue Skies for Children. This year we are splitting the contribution between Blue Skies for Children and Live Consciously. Blue Skies for Children provides help for homeless, low-income, and foster children in Whatcom and Skagit counties. Live Consciously is the organization responsible for bringing you the downtown Thriller performances for the past 3 years – in the past, all expenses have been out of pocket for the love of entertainment.

It all starts FRIDAY, 7 - 9pm October 7th at Fairhaven Fitness at the Bellingham Tennis Club.
Become a zombie now!

RETURNING ZOMBIES GET 50% OFF - great way to brush up on your zombie march and STILL donate to charity.



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Regular Price is $99 for adults (ages 18+); $40 Child (ages 8-17); additional children with zombie parents are $15 per child. Returning zombies who have enrolled in our previous series are 50% off!

Click this link to enroll online or call the Club at 733-5050. Don’t wait, it will fill fast!

We are still planning the two optional performances in Fairhaven and downtown on Halloween.

Please forward this blog post to your zombie-like friends and let's make this the biggest Thrillingham EVER!

~Zombie Robin

Leadville 100 update

Here I am at Copper Mountain, CO getting acclimated to the high altitude of 10,000 feet before my race on Saturday.  Last night I watched the Leadville 100 Mt. Bike video again to get a better feel for the terrain and race circumstances.

I feel so blessed to be here right now.  I am fortunate that I have family, friends, and co-workers who supported me in so many ways and helped me through the hours of training it took to get me to this point.  I am "all in" for this race - I feel rested, the altitude is not having any super bad effects (couple of headaches, no nausea), I am excited and in awe of this event with which I have challenged myself.  

There are Olympians here!

There are World Cup Champions here!
There are Tour de France riders here!

And there is me!  And a bunch of others like me.
I am just glad to be a part of it all.  Today was the check-in and I chatted with others who are racing for the first time as well.  About 65% do not finish - that means I know where I'll need to be in order to make the 4 hour, 8 hour, and 9 hour time checks in order to continue the race.  There were stories of pre-rides and how hard the climbs are.  We were all excited and curious and supportive of each other.  What a cool environment.

This whole process of picking this huge goal and making a plan to reach it has been pretty amazing.

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

— Earl Nightingale: Author, The Strangest Secret, Lead the Field.

I encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and pick a goal.  It doesn't have to be insanely big like this one, but just find a focus, make a plan and get there.    And measure yourself from how far you've come.  It feels really good.

There are lot's of "what if's" for my race day, but in my eyes I have already succeeded by getting to the start line healthy.  I will do my best to pass each of the time marks and finish the race and that will be the icing on the cake (or maybe the froth on my well-deserved beer.)

AND A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO DONATED TO THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION.  You helped raise over $2,000 so far (there is still time! click the link on this blog, above).  That means more to me than the race itself.  Many heartfelt thanks to you...

Until after the race,
Robin Robertson

PS If you go to my facebook page, I've posted a bunch of pictures and ancedotes of my travels here.  Look for Robin Mortimer Robertson.

From Sea Level to 10,000 Feet

I'm a little nervous!  I leave on Saturday for Leadville, Colorado where I'll ride in the Leadville 100mile mountain bike race.  Leadville starts at about 10,000 feet and goes up to about 13,000.  I am wondering how my body will do...I arrive on Monday with the race the following Saturday.  If I get altitude sickness I should have time to acclimate before the race.

I've had lots of good advice about everything you could imagine and I feel like I am as prepared as I can be.  I will definately have an experience!

I am glad that my daughter and her boyfriend will be driving out and Doug later flying out to support me during the race.  Unfortunately my son can't make it - more importantly he is at marching band camp for his senior year at BHS. 

There is still time to support me through a donation to the Alzheimers Association in honor of my dad who died 25 years ago.  So far, you have helped raise about $1500!  That is so awesome and thank you!  If you'd still like to make a donation, click this link.

Well, wish me luck!!

Committed to your good health,
Robin Robertson

Now Hiring - Customer Service

We are now hiring for our Customer Service at our front desk area.  This is a permanent part-time position with 15-20 hours per week.  If you are interested, please click the link below to learn more about the job and how to apply.  Applications are due by July 24th, interviews July 25-18, training starts first week of August.

Tell me more about the job!

July 14 Camp INSIDE today

The Competitive Camp will start indoors at the Bellingham Tennis Club instead of Sehome High School because of the rain.  Please arrive directly at the club!  800 McKenzie Ave in Fairhaven.

Scholarship Students

We would like to congratulate our 4 new scholarship recipients for the 2011/12 season. They are:

Kristin Chalmers - Sehome High School
Makena DeGolier - Squalicum High School
Santana Diaz - Squalicum High School
Catie Welch - Bellingham High School

We look forward to having these students progress and get to enjoy the game we all love.

Summer Tennis Camp Update

Indoors or Outdoors? All camps scheduled for Sehome High School will be indoors here at the Bellingham Tennis Club if the weather turns bad. We will be making the decision by 7am each morning the camps are running. For further information call us at 733-5050.

Club is a Scrubbin'

Here we go with Club Scrub!  Just a reminder that we are closed on June 15 & 16 for our annual Club Scrub.  Courts can be booked online only after 8am each day.  Regular court bookings will resume by phone on 6/17 at 7:00am.

CLUB SCRUB - CLOSED JUNE 15 & 16

We will be closed for our annual "Club Scrub" on June 15 & 16.
However, the 21 Day Body Transformation classes will still be held!  We will hold the classes as regularly scheduled!

We take this time for those projects we can't do during normal operating hours.  We start off with an all staff meeting and then launch into 48 hours of cleaning.
Here is a peak at our plan:

• Lifts onto the tennis courts to change lightbulbs
• Clean all lighting fixture lenses (lots of green dust on the tennis courts!)
• Patch the tennis court insulation
• Scrub all 5 tennis courts
• Move and clean under all of our fitness equipment
• Clean all of our fan fixtures
• Touch up Painting
• Caulking in locker rooms
• Carpet cleaning
• Overall scrubbing, cleaning, & reorganizing
• Plus... a jillion other little things.

Swing by if you want to see us in action!

If you have any thoughts on things you've noticed that need attention, let me know!

Here are some pictures from last year's club scrub.....

~Robin

Ski to Sea Video - I'm in it!

The Ski to Sea folks put together a video that you can find on youtube - or right here! Guess which one is me (Robin)!

State Tennis - Bellingham Dominates!

WOW and CONGRATULATIONS to the high school state tennis players!  We are very proud of "our" kids - its nice to know that Bellingham is a force to be reconed with!  Most of these kids have spent a little or a lot of time training here at the Club and we happy that we had a hand in helping them get to State and have terrific successes. Congrats to all!

Be sure to congratulate these junior players!

DOUBLES:
Bella Hoyos & Megan Mullarky: 1st Place -State Doubles Champs 2nd year in a row!
Bjorn Thorpe & Matt Goebel: 4th Place
Becca Wilson & Danielle Dorr:  5th Place
Morgan Sherif & Katie Adams: 7th Place
EJ Troutman & Reed Welch:  1 win, 2 losses - only team to take a set off State Champs

SINGLES:
Girls:  Annie LeFebvre: 4th Place
Boys:  Avery West: 5th Place

Parents & friends - if you have any pictures of these kids in action, please email them to us!  We'd love to post them!

Fairhaven Fitness Ferocious Females Takes 3rd Place

We are so excited about our 3rd place finish in the Ski to Sea Whatcom Women Division.  I love this race because it brings together all ranges of atheletes - from Olympians to couch potatoes.  The Whatcom Women division is the best of Whatcom County and we are so proud to be in the top three teams!  The bonus is that this is a really fun group of women.  We look forward to racing together again next year!

Here we are at the podium....
Top Row (from left): 
Nicole (and baby Ari)- Road Bike (but Ari did not make the trip with her :o)
Ginny - Canoe
Vanessa - Kayak
Roxanne - Canoe
Bottom Row (from left)
Meilani - Downhill Ski
Robin - Mt. Bike
Cathy - Run
Ingela - XC Ski

BTTC Team takes 2nd!

Congratulations to our BTTTC (Bellingham Tennis Tricycle Team) for bringing home the 2nd place honor at the annual tricycle race in downtown.  Our team dominated the first heat and brought it to a close finish in the second heat with our arch rivals, the YMCA, snagging 1st place.  Our team mates "took 2" for the team with gnarly thigh bruises from legs banging the seat.  We'll come up with a good solution next year....

Thank you team Captain Debbie Brown, Betty Koon, Shelley Bruce, and ringer Nancy Goldfogel.  You gals are awesome~!