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Upcoming/Events:
Tour De San Felasco 54 mile Ride-
January 10th in Gainesville
Open Water Swim Clinic February 28th,
2009 at 7:15 AM at South Beach Park in
Boca Raton
Hospice 100K Road or Mountain Bike
Charity Event March 1st at Markham Park
in Sunrise
Chilly Willy Tri and Duathlon at CB
Smith Park in Pembroke Pines on March
1st
Transition Clinic and Mock Tri at
Deerfield Beach Main Parking Lot at 7AM
on March 7th
Session Two Run Group Starts on March
10th at Lake Wyman in Boca at 6:15PM
Session Two Open Water Swim Group starts
on March 11th at A1A and Palmetto/
South Beach Park. Intermediate to advanced
start at 5:30 and Beginners start at 6:15PM.
Session Two Bike Intervals and Speed
Group starts on March 12th at Red Reef
Golf Course Parking Lot. Beginners met at
5:30PM and Intermediate to Advanced riders
met at 6:15PM.
Miami International Triathlon in Key
Biscayne-
March 15th
Clermont Training in the Hills Trip
March 21st and 22nd
Ready to Race Clinic and/or Mock FAU
Triathlon
April 5th at Spanish River Park
26th Annual Great Clermont Triathlon
April 5
Nautica South
Beach Triathlon
April 5th
New Orleans 70.3
April 5th
FAU Wellness
Triathlon First Timers Clinic
April 18th at noon FAU Pool
FAU Wellness
Triathlon
April 19th at Spanish River Park
Nutrition Fueling
for Racing and Training
Racers Edge at 6PM to 8PM
April 30th
MS 150 Ride
May 2nd and 3rd
Tri Miami Sprint
and Olympic Distance Race
May 3rd
Open Water Swim
Clinic
Spanish River Park
May 9th
Session Three Run
and Bike Groups Start up
May 12th and 14th
Lactate Threshold Workshop- FAU Exercise
Science Lab
May 20th
Mock Triathlon at Spanish River
Park!
May 30th
7- 9:30AM
QUIET WATERS PARK MOUNTAIN BIKE TRAIL NEWS:
Trail-building
days are from 8:30 a.m. to noon on the second and
fourth Saturdays of the month. Volunteers who would
like to work on and maintain the trails should visit
the park office or call
Eddie Garczyk at
954-360-1315, ext. 226 for more information.
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Recent News and Event
Thanks to all the athletes that
came out for Bike and Run Group for Session Three!
We had a great mix of athletes that
were a TON of fun to coach for both groups!
Run group went to 5 different
locations and included various types of workouts and
surfaces. Bike Group also
visited several different locations and included
hill repeats, power training, pursuits, intervals
and even transition practice for the triathletes:).
Athletes learned a lot and made friendships along
the way and even got faster!
Thanks again.....I really appreciate ALL YOUR
SUPPORT and ENTHUSIASM to learn and train hard!
It helped me to remember how rewarding coaching the
groups can be!
Bike
Group June 2009
Dinner after our last session! Bonehead Grill
Run Group at Lake Wyman
Intervals on the soft mulch.
Warm up loop through the mangroves.
Mini Social after last workout!
Run Group at Red Reef Golf Course!
Congrats to Athletes that competed at the Danskin
She Roxx in Miami on May 31st!
Pam Kresse and Kerry Whitacre
had outstanding
first timers races while newbie's Jen Lucy
and Becky Smither
as well as veterans Lisa Schwab, Libby
Vasiliou and Lisa Schwab
also had great
races! Way to race women!
Pam and Becky before the start.
The Girls (Kerry , Jen, Lisa and Pam) after the race
Becky, Jen and Kelly
Libby and Lisa
Mock
Triathlon on May 30th at Spanish River Park!
Thanks to all the
athletes that came out for the Mock Tri!
We had a very nice group of 25 athletes
practice their racing skills with flat ocean
conditions, little wind on the bike and nice cloud
cover for the run.
Congrats to Luis Gonzalez,
Michele Gonzalez and Philip Goodwin for
their outstanding performances at the Memorial
Day Run! All 3 athletes PR'ed with
significant improvements!
Lactate
Threshold Workshop on May 20th at the FAU Exercise
Science Lab. Special thanks to
DR. O'Kroy for presenting an informative
workshop on lactate threshold testing.
The workshop included a demonstration of an athlete
being VO2 max and LT tested as well as information
on how to interpret the results to use with your
training.
Participants were given an opportunity to
sign up for future testing at a discounted rate.
Thanks goes out to Liz Hoyer for
volunteering to be the subject for the testing.
She did an awesome job and pushed hard
through it
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Congrats
to ALL my Athletes that completed in Florida 70.3
Half Ironman on Sunday! Matt Joffe (5:15:42),
Nadia Fogel (6:42:37) and Sue Caplan (6:49:23)
were 1st time finishers for a half iron.
Donna O'Kroy (6:43:07) and Larry Kraska (6:46:57)
both PR'ed for that distance in the event (30
minutes and 1 hour respectively)! Matt,
who does an amazing job of juggling a stressful job
that takes him out of town a lot with spending
quality time with his family and training had an
incredible first time 5:15 finish! I am
very proud of all my athletes......each having their
own incredible journey finishing on a hot and tough
course!
Open
Water Swim Clinic Saturday on May 9th.
Thanks to all the
athletes that came out for the clinic! It was a
great clinic with a wonderful group of athletes
learning a lot! Check out the pictures on
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Congrats
to
Eric Levy for his
outstanding performance at the
Tri Miami Sprint Triathlon On
May 3rd! Eric took
1st Place in his Age Group and finished 9th Overall!
Way to go!
Congrats to Riders that completed the MS 150 Ride to
Key Largo! It was a great event
and awesome to see so many riders. Congrats to Pam
Kresse, Michael Dudnick, Maria Price, Anita Dudnick
and Jim Van Putten for their participation in the
ride!
Nutrition:
Fueling for racing and training Clinic on April 30th
at 6PM . Thanks to those athletes that
attended clinic at The Racer's Edge! We had quite a
big group of about 30 athletes come out for the
event.
Session
3 Groups started up May12th. I will be
coaching a Tuesday night Run group and Thursday
evening Bike Group this session.
Both groups work on developing
Speed and power. They both start at 6:15PM. Cost
of the groups are $25.
Registration is open.
Congratulations
to all Athletes that completed in the FAU Wellness
Triathlon pm April 19th!
I had a big group
of over 20 compete including 12 personal athletes.
They all did amazing with many PR's as well as First
time successes:). Thanks to all of you that came
out. You can check out the photos on my
Racheal Wood Coaching Facebook.
RESULTS Personally Coached athletes
Matt Joffe, (5th),
Eric Levy (5th) and Donna
O'Kroy (2nd) all had podium finishes with
several others (Sue Caplan and Nadia Fogel) with
PR's on the course.
Thanks to everyone that stopped by the tent and hung
out. I really enjoyed watching you all race and
celebrating your accomplishments afterwards!
Thanks to all the athletes that came out to the
First Timer's Clinic for the FAU Wellness Triathlon
on Saturday April 18th at noon. There
was
a great
turnout of about 70 athletes who had a lot of
wonderful questions. I hope all of you had a great
race. Thanks to those of you that stopped by my
tent to tell me how you did after the race:).
Thanks to all the wonderful athletes that attended
and participated in the Ready to Race Clinic and
Mock Tri on April 5th!
It was a beautiful
day with perfect conditions. Can't ask for more
than that:)! Good luck to all of you with your
races.
Athletes that
attended the clinic can email me any questions you
may have about getting ready for the FAU race.
SPECIAL thanks goes out to Lisa Schwab
for helping me much with running the event,
many of my athletes that came out early to
help setup the course, my husband Brian
for setting up the swim course and monitoring it
from his kayak and my daughter Ellen
for taking so many great pictures. I am working on
putting up a photo gallery of pictures. I will
provide a link shortly. I could not have put on
such a nice smooth running event without all your
help!
THANKS so much!
Athletes moments before the start.
Congrats to my athletes that raced over the
weekend. Sue Caplan and Eric Levy
both raced well at The South Beach Nautica Race.
Eric came in 11th in the tough 30-34 age group and
50th overall and Sue finished 10th in the women's
40-44 age group. Don Pingaro and Tina Marie
Pereira both participated in the Inaugural
New Orleans 70.3 race. Don had a PR of 5:58 and
change and Tina also improved her time despite
dealing with stomach issues on the run.
Congrats to all my athletes!
Special Thanks to athletes that made the Clermont
Road Trip very special!
We rode our bikes
50 miles in beautiful countryside filled with all
the hills of Orange and Lake County. We then did a
sweet hilly short run! Sunday we did a brick in
beautiful Lake Louisa State Park followed by a swim
at The National Training Center. It was such a FUN
weekend.....what a beautiful change from South
Florida flat A1A! Photos
The Orange Trail after the ride!
Waterfront Park after the warm up!
Congrats to Linda Lardino-Semko, Caye Serling, Lisa
Schwab and Jennifer Lucy
who competed in the Tradewinds Reverse Triathlon on
Saturday March 21st. Linda won the Masters Title in
a smoking time of 55:47! It was Jennifer's first
triathlon and she did it on an old mountain bike:)!
Way to go girls!
Training
Groups started up with a Bang for Session Two!
We had a wonderful turnout for all the groups
workouts for the first week of the Spring Session!
The Run Group met at Lake Wyman to run on the Mulch
Trails, the Bike Group at Red Reef Golf Course to do
a FUN pursuit type workout and the Ocean Swim Group
also had a great first session working on their
starts and
exits as well as practicing on a marked swim
course. We recently videotaped runner in Run group
and had a mini clinic on proper running form and
ways to become a more efficient runner and avoid
injuries.
Congrats to Don Pingaro for his outstanding finish
at the Wildman Olympic Distance Race in Orlando!
He finished the race strong with a 2:07
finish....good enough for 3rd place and a podium
finish! Don keeps getting faster at each race!
Awesome way to start the season Don!
Congrats to Matt Joffe and Nadia Fogel on their
outstanding performances at the MIT Race in Miami.
Matt finished the race in a blazing 2:20
and Nadia was super solid with a 2:51! Both
athletes used the race as a training race to prepare
them for the Disney IM FL 70.3 Race!
Wayne Morris and Jim VanPutten from Run
Group also did well! Wayne
finished in 2:13 good enough for 3rd place in his
age group and Jim had a fun and
wonderful race with a 2:53 finish!
Thanks to all the athletes that came out for the
Transition Clinic and Mock Triathlon on March 7th!
We had a very nice mix of beginners to experienced
triathletes from Jupiter to Miami and come out for
the event.
The athletes used the clinic to refresh and
learn new skills for quicker transitions.
Next clinic will be on April 5th... A READY to race
Clinic with Mock Triathlon at Spanish River Park!
Nadia mounting the bike at transition
clinic!
Congrats to Maren Piefer for a huge accomplishment
in completing Ironman New Zealand!
Maren works as a
Personal Trainer
and teaches several Fitness type classes a week.
It was a big challenge to work around her 12 to
15 hours of teaching fitness classes a week and
still prepare her for Ironman. It took a bit of
day by day creative adjustments. I
know she
was not able to train like she really wanted to
for the event, but in the end and on race
day......she used her biggest strength.......pure
guts and determination to pull off an incredible
race! She finished the day in 13:30:04!
Congrats to Donna Logan O'Kroy for her 3rd place
overall finish at the Chilly Willy Duathlon at CB
Smith Park.
She finished the race in 1:01:16.653 which was a PR
for that course. Donna is off to a great
start to the 2009 Season!
The Open Water Swim Clinic on
Feb. 28th was a huge success with 15 swimmers coming
out to work on their skills.
The ocean was just right, not too rough but not
calm either. Athletes were able to practice so many
skills needed for open water swimming. Thanks to
all that came out!
Registration is up for Session
Two Groups
that will start the week of March 9th:
Congrats to all my athletes that competed in the
A1A Half Marathon! Many of them set PR's on a
beautiful race course and day! Congrats to
Personal Coached
Athletes
Don Pingaro-
1:35:00 finish for a PR
Eric Levy -1:41:51 finish and a PR
Sue Caplan
-2:04:59 finish and PR by 9 minutes
Nadia Fogel
with a 2:11 finish
Michelle Gonzalez - 2:00:04 finish on
her first Half Marathon
Luis Gonzalez
with also a first time finish and 1:58:01 time.
Congrats to my last year IM athlete
Nadja Pritchard for her 1:41:54 finish.
Run Group members also had
great races!
Wayne Morris
finishing in a blazing 1:23
Melissa Wu -
2:13 finish on her first half marathon
Joe Falcone - 1:33 finish
which was a PR!
Jim Van Putten - 1:49 finish which
was a PR by over 10 minutes
Anita Dudnick - 2:15 Finish!
Caye Sterling -
2:21:13 which was also a PR!
Way to go Athletes!
Don Pingaro on his way to a PR AGAIN!
Congrats to Donna Logan O'Kroy for her outstanding
performance at the Tradewinds Duathlon on Sunday!
She had her fastest bike split ever and PR'3d by
over 2 minutes on the course which captured her the
Women's Masters Title! Way to go Donna!
Melissa Wu
had a 5 minute improvement on her bike split
from last year at the Florida Great
Escape
up in Lake Louisa last weekend!
Sue Caplan and Don Pingaro did great at in the Miami
Half marathon! Sue
had an awesome race with a great first time
finish of 2:13:17! Don
also raced well finishing with a PR
and a 1:37:50
finish!
CONGRATULATIONS
to Steve Homrich
for his outstanding performance at Disney
Marathon! He was
able to conquer his long time goal of
qualifying for Boston!
He finished the marathon in 3:31:27.
Steve recently
finished his first IM at FL with a 10:55 finish!
An incredible year for an incredible athlete!
Congrats Steve...it has been so much fun to
coach you and watch you obtain your goals all year!
Congrats to Larry Kraska for an
outstanding race at Disney marathon! He also
obtained his goal of breaking 4 hours with a 3:59
and change:)!
Congratulations to Dan Dania
who accomplished his goal of finishing the Disney
half marathon in under 2 hours! Congrats also goes
out to Michael Kravit for finishing
his first half marathon (run/walk) at Disney.
WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND and start to the 2009
Season for everyone!
I would like to welcome my
New Personal Athletes
for 2009!
Welcome to
Donna Logan
O'Kroy
who is training
for Disney IM FL 70.3 and IM FL.
Welcome to
Matt Joffe
who has his sights
on IM FL 70.3 and Nationals.
Maren Piefer
is training for
IM New Zealand.
Cherie Arscott
is training for
her first triathlon at FAU Wellness
Triathlon.
Daniel Schultz
is training for
FAU Wellness Triathlon
and a season full of sprints. Michelle
and Luis Gonzalez
are training for a series of sprints, with the goal
of doing Miami Man Half IM at the end of the
season! Welcome to
Pam Kresse
and
Jennifer Lucy!
Both athletes are training for The She Roxx
Triathlon in May!
I would like to extend a special thanks to my
athletes that are returning in 2009!
Don Pingaro
has an amazing
schedule filled with half IM's (New Orleans,
Kona 70.3 to Start)
and several
Olympic Distance races (Twin Cities, Chicago,
MIT and Des Moines).
Nadia Fogel
and
Sue Caplan
have both decided
to step it up and train for their first Half Ironman
at Disney IM FL 70.3
along with several
other races!
Eric Levy
continues to
improve with his running doing several half
marathons this winter....then will set his sights
on several Olympic Distance races (St.
Anthony's, Key Biscayne Sprint and Escape to Miami)
along with a
couple Half IM's (Vineman and Miami Man).
Tina Marie Pereira
also has an
adventurous schedule including 2 Half IM's (
New Orleans, Rhode Island)
Steve Homrich
is training for Disney
Marathon hoping to qualify for Boston.
Larry Kraska
is currently training for Disney and will also be
doing Disney 70.3 and IM FL in
2009!
Congrats to all the athletes that did well at the
Miami man race on November 9th! Congrats
to
Eric Levy
who despite having to deal with a flat tire (and
problems fixing it...glue and gravel don't
mix)...still continued on to finish in
5:52:32.
Congrats also goes out to
Denise McKelvey
who finished her first Half Iron Distance race.
She battled through more medical issues than you
care to imagine this fall training for the event.
It is only through sheer determination and guts that
she was able to compete and FINISH the race!
Way to go Denise!
Maria Price
also did well with
a PR of 5:30:20
and came in 5th in the 45-49 age group. It is
always great to see an athlete use their knowledge
they learned and continue on to succeed.
Congrats to
Nadia Fogel for her 3rd place
Podium finish in
the Miami Man International Distance Race.
Sue Caplan also had a PR by 5 minutes
over last years time! Congrats to all the
finishers!
Nadia on the podium!
Sue Caplan having a great run!
Special Congrats to my Ironman Athletes that
competed in Panama City on November 1st!
Steve
Homrich (51) and Nadja Pritchard
(38) completed their FIRST IRONMAN
and Ed Mark (41) PR'ed in his
second! All of them worked super hard It was
awesome to watch them!
Steve had a great and perfectly executed
race with a strong swim (1:02), solid bike which
showed much patience (5:39) and a well executed
marathon run(4:04) for a 10:55:23 finish!
Nadja was even more impressive with a 1:17
swim (when she started early this year could not
swim 25 yards without being totally winded), a super
fast 5:46 bike and a 4:20 marathon for a
11:34:49 race.
The fact that she was battling a cold and this is
her first year even doing triathlons...is truly
amazing!
Ed
also had a solid swim and looked great coming out of
the water in 1:18 (which is awesome since swimming
is not his thing!).
He had a strong but patient bike split of 5:36 or 20
mile per hour average and battled out some severe
cramping on the run for a
12:17 finish! Ed also had to overcome a strain he
had in his calf when we first started a few months
ago...so his running was minimal leading up to the
event......but he still did great!
He still had over an HOUR AND A HALF PR
from his last IM race a couple years ago.
Carey Gandy, Ed
Mark, Nadja Pritchard and Steve Homrich before the
start at IM FL 08
Congrats to Liz Hoyer for an
outstanding finish at XTERRA World
Championships in Maui Hawaii on October 26th,
2008! The course was tough with
over 4000 feet of climbing on the bike alone and
another 1800 feet on the run. Conditions were very
hot on race day with no wind or shade! The last
part of the run was on cattle run with lava rocks
every which way and then into the red and black sand
beaches with spooky woods in between! Liz
finished in 4:26:32 and 11th in her age group!
Pretty amazing for an athlete that only really
started mountain biking with me back in February and
has NO HILLS here in South Florida to train on! Liz
trained as best she could using the little hills we
have available here in South Florida and it paid
off. She rode and ran well on the hills and
persevered through some cramping and a crash! She
did great on a as tough course that was super
challenging for us vertically challenged South
Floridians! Way to go Liz!
Liz
Congrats to Don Pingaro that had a GREAT
race in Bermuda! He finished 3rd in a
tough 40-44 age division! Great ending to a nice
season!
We had a nice turnout for our last run group and
mini social on November 4th.
We did a short workout and then had a small
gathering to celebrate the 2008 season!
Don Pingaro who is raced another Lifetime Fitness
Race this time in Dallas!
He had a podium finish and placed 3rd in the
series!
Thanks
to everyone that came out for the
Miami Man Pre Ride and Ready to Race Clinic
on September 28th!
We had a nice group that of intermediate to more
advanced racers come out. We rode all or parts of
the course (depending on the group ), ran sections
of the run that were within the park and then had
lunch while discussing racing strategies and
concerns. Athlete's valuable questions were
answered about racing both Olympic and Half Ironman
Distances. Feedback received from everyone was
awesome!
Thanks for being such a great group!
Mock Triathlon on August 30th at Spanish River park
in Boca Raton!
Thanks to everyone
that came out for the mock tri! Athletes did great
using a variety of courses depending on their goal
races! Athletes were able to practice racing
conditions and transitioning. Ocean was rough,
bike was windy and run nice and cool. Next mock
tri will be in 2009!
Clermont Trip on August 16th and 17th.
We had a really nice trip up to
Clermont. Rode hills and ran on Saturday and then
rode again on Sunday. Lots of new roads and trails
(bike paths) to explore.
The weather was also super nice and kind of cool for
August!
Congrats
to Athletes! Don Pingaro set yet
another PR at the Chicago Lifetime Fitness event.
His goal was to break 2.5 hours this year,....and
he has gone well below it the last two races! Way
to go Don!
Congrats to athletes that did super well at
Loggerhead over the weekend.
Sue Caplan
also did well and improved her time by quite a bit.
She improved her time in all 3 disciplines!
Ed Mark also did
amazing considering he is doing all long distance
training and nursing a sore calf which has kept him
from running.
Eric Levy
just keeps improving. He participated in the
Babette Kulka Memorial 5K and ran 22:30. It was
another PR by over 1:30 minutes! Way to go Eric!
Congrats to Eric Levy and Nadia Fogel. They
competed in the Olympic Distance Huntington Disease
Triathlon on Sunday August 2nd!
Eric had a PR and
finished in 2:45:00 and Nadia took 3rd in the
women's 45-49 age group in her first Olympic
Distance race ever! Way to go athletes!
Tina Marie Pereira completed her first half Ironman
at Vineman in California.
It was a beautiful venue with
lots of hills, vineyards and cold conditions. Even
though she ran into some technical difficulties on
the bike which caused some knee pain for the
run....she persevered and finished in style! Way
to go Tina!
Tina trying to stay warm on the bike (it was 50
degrees and freezing for us south Floridians) and
with her finishers medal.
Don Pingaro did back to back Lifetime
Fitness Olympic Distance Series races!
The first one was in Minneapolis on July 12th and
the second one in NYC on July 20th! He set PR's in
both races breaking the 2:30 hour mark for the first
time in NYC. Don has been working with me for 3
months and just keeps improving each month! Way to
go Don!
Congrats to Eric Levy who did very
well at the Trilogy in Key Biscayne on July 20th!
Eric continues to improve in all 3 disciplines and
becoming an age grouper contender! Keep up the
great work Eric.
Athlete News:
Congrats to Liz Hoyer
not only competed her
first XTERRA event at Regional's in Alabama,
but raced extremely well among a very tough field of
athletes from all over the USA. She even out raced
her coach:)!!
She earned a 3rd place Podium finish and
qualified for XTERRA World Championships in Maui
this October.
Congrats to Don Pingaro who had a PR at the famous
Escape from Alcatraz in San Francisco and
accomplished his goal of breaking 3 hours with a
2:52 finish!
Congrats to Nadia Fogel who also
did well with a
4th place age group finish
at the Rivera Beach Triathlon in Singer Island.
Last I heard, Tina
Maria Pereira was surviving the heat (101 degrees)
on the Bike Ride Across Georgia!
She is on her last day of the ride which ends in
Saint Simons this year.
XTERRA SE Regional Championships: The race
was held at Oak Mountain State Park in
Pelham Alabama.
The course was very challenging with over
3000 feet of elevation during the course of the
day. It was a nice Lake swim, but very warm.
Water temperature was well over 80 degrees. The
mountain bike trail was not very technical, but
included a bit of climbing and one nice long 3 mile
climb with one section called Blood rock that was
difficult (all of 20 yards). The run was super
nice the first couple miles but then they turned us
on to the hiking trail which was a series of
straight up and down hills which resorted most of us
to walking.
It was a great course and well organized event. I
hope to go back again next year so I can conquer
those hills!
Lactate Threshold Testing Seminar/Clinic-
On May 30th- June 1st, I attended an
awesome seminar at the National Training
Center Sport Medicine Institute in Clermont.
It was the first of many Sports Science Tracks being
offered by USA Triathlon. I decided to attend in
order to increase my knowledge about lactate
testing. The course was very hands on including a
great deal of information not only on proper
procedures but more importantly how to interpret
the data once it is collected. We were able to
repeatedly practice both giving the test and being
subjects
as well as how to interpret the results.
I feel I have a much greater understanding and
feel so much more qualified as a coach to test my
athletes properly and accurately.
Congrats to Steve Homrich and Nadja Pritchard for
outstanding performances at IM FL 70.3!
Both are first year triathletes training
for IM FL in November. Steve had a
finishing time of 5:36:22 and Nadja 6:25:33.
Congrats to Nadia Fogel for her 4th place finish in
the tough 40-44 age group at the Deerfield Family
fitness race! Athletes from training
groups also did well including Melissa Wu
with a second place finish in the 35-39 age group,
David Edmundson, Anita Dudnick, Jamie Gulden,
Melissa Cooper,
Dolores Van Bourgondi
and David Hersh.
Results
Mock
TRI/Brick on May 10th on ESM course in Deerfield.
Thanks to all the athletes that came out for the
Mock Triathlon/Brick Session May 10th! We
had beautiful weather with flat ocean swimming, no
wind on the bike and a hot run. We had a really
nice group of 22 athletes make it out, some
completing the entire Family Fitness Course and
others doing shorter Brick repeats!
Great job everyone! Hope to see many of you in
July for our next one at Birch State Park!
Some of the athletes after the Mock tri May 10th!
Picture from last Mock TRI/Brick in
Deerfield!
Congrats
to Athletes Don Pingaro and Eric Levy for great
races at the Tri Miami Triathlon on May 4th!
Don made the podium with a 3rd place finish and
Eric came in 4th in his age group!
Tri
America Race in Port Charlotte - I did a
FUN training race the weekend of May 2nd. The
distance was unique in that it was between a half IM
and Olympic Distance race. It consisted of
a 1.2 mile swim, 36 mile bike and 15K run.
It was perfect for someone not quite ready to do a
half IM but wanting more distance than an Olympic.
The venue was beautiful along the Gulf Coast with a
beautiful swim, awesome bike and run course.
It was a nice and peaceful.....quite a
change from South Florida hustle and bustle.
They put on a whole series of these races.
Check them out! I would highly suggest it for
athletes wanted something not typical:)!
 
Tri America Race May 2008
Thanks
to everyone that came out for the Racer's Edge Bike
Presentation on April 30th. Bike expert
mechanics Vince and Jamie demonstrated the proper
way to take your bike apart, pack it and then
reassemble it for travel as well as make sure it is
in proper working order and ready to race!
The event was FREE to Gold Coast Triathletes and
Training Group members. We had 23 athletes attend!
Stay tuned for our next clinic on Proper
Bike Maintenance.
Congrats to everyone that raced and came out to
the FAU RACE. I saw so many familiar faces out
there today.
It was great to watch all of
you race and do so well! Several athletes
had
PR's today and collected some
hardware! Way to go!
First Timer's Clinic on April 12th at noon at
FAU Pool. Thanks to everyone that came out
for the Clinic! It was a nice turnout with about 50
participants.
XTERRA in Miami was tons of FUN and a GREAT race! I
had a great time competing. This year
they had a short version and a TRUE XTERRA distance
length. It was great practice to help get ready for
Regional's! Congrats to fellow mountain bike
racers Michelle Rivera and Tom Pike for a 2nd place
overall and first place age group win in the Short
Tri! It was a FUN course!
I've turned athlete Liz Hoyer into a
mountain biker and we hit the trails at Oleta to
practice for XTERRA. She plans on training hard
and joining me in Alabama for Regional's!
Thanks to Everyone that came out to the READY to
RACE clinic and Mock Triathlon at Spanish River Park
on March 29th, 2008.
We had a record turnout of 30 athletes
participating. Athletes learned about how to
prepare for the upcoming race and then did a
practice triathlon for the upcoming April races.
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