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REGIONAL ATHLETES RIDE BICYCLES ACROSS AMERICA FOR CHARITY
Four USAT members from the Mid-Atlantic region competed in the 20th Annual Race Across America (RAAM) to raise money for a program dedicated to eliminating violence against women and children. This year’s race started in Portland, Ore. and finished in Gulf Breeze, Fla. The team of Lynn Brooks, Karen Buxton, Anne Viviani and Valerie Gattis completed the 2,992-mile adventure in 7 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes.
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STRONG REGIONAL SHOWING AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER
Athletes from the Mid-Atlantic region took two of the top ten spots in both the men’s and women’s divisions of Mrs. T’s USAT Age Group World Championship Qualifier held June 15th in Lake Placid, New York.
Read on for the full story.
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USEFUL ONLINE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO MID-ATLANTIC MEMBERS
by Bill Hauser
The Mid-Atlantic region offers a variety of free, web-based tools and resources that help members locate, preview and register for upcoming races, join multisport clubs, review training information, check regional rankings and keep up-to-date on national and regional happenings. This month, we take a look at the resources available and tell you how to find them.
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THE SCIENCE OF SPEED
A Training Calendar
http://www.elitetesting.com
by Dan Moser, Ph.D. & Jeff Devlin
Now you
are really into your competitive season, with at least a sprint or Olympic
distance triathlon or maybe a marathon under your belt. If the concept of heart rate (HR) training
described in last month’s article was new to you, don’t worry, there is still
plenty of time left to put technology to use and reap the rewards of better
training through science. For you who
have been training with HR monitors for years, we hope you were able to
fine-tune some of your workouts. Now
that you all have an understanding of the intensities involved in aerobic,
lactate threshold, VO2, and anaerobic training (see last month’s article
at http://www.imakenews.com/usatma/index.cfm?archive=T),
this month we want to help you plan a viable training calendar for peaking at
the right time.
The
science of speed combines two expert perspectives on seasonal triathlon
testing, training, and racing and is sponsored by ELITE Testing (a division of
ELITE Health & Wellness) ( http://www.elitetesting.com),
located in Philadelphia.
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AT THE RACES
Regional Potpourri
by Bob Mina
It’s already July? Where the heck has the season gone? Just a few months ago I was whining about my spare tire, and here we are in the thick of the summer season now! Of course, I still have that spare tire, but there’s something about 90° weather and 80% humidity that just makes it go bye-bye in a few weeks, so I’ll let it be for now.
One of the problems the summer brings about (although it’s a problem like having too much ice-cream in your freezer is a problem) is that there are races nearly every weekend. You could point your browser to Lin-Mark and find a race every single weekend until September! How can you decide which one’s to do?
I couldn’t either, so you’re getting all of them for July in one swell foop. Call me indecisive, call me lazy, call me Joan (wait, no – not Joan. Nevermind), but there was just no way I could pick one race and do all the others justice, so read on – there’s so much you could be doing!
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LeBRUN, ERLANK VICTORIOUS AT NISSAN XTERRA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP
by XTERRA News Network
Nicolas LeBrun (Digne, France) used a remarkable run to capture the 4th annual Nissan Xterra East Championship overall title in Richmond, Va. on June 23rd. The off-road multisport race - first of four national championship events boasting a $125,000 pro purse - consisted of a 1-kilometer swim, 27-kilometer mountain bike and 10-kilometer trail run. Reigning XTERRA World Champion Anke Erlank (Stellenbosch, South Africa) won the women’s race by a convincing five-minute margin.
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GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNIOR & UNDER-23 TRIATHLETES
by USA Triathlon
Jack Bianchi, a
duathlete and owner of Bianchi Motors in Santa Barbara, Calif., has made a
philanthropic contribution to the USA Triathlon Development Program. His
contribution has been earmarked to provide grants to underprivileged junior and
under-23 triathletes.
These grants are meant to cover a portion of the travel and
race expenses for triathletes wishing to participate in one or more races in
the USAT Junior and U-23 National Triathlon Series, including the National
Championship in New Hampshire.
If you know young triathletes not otherwise financially able
to make it to these races, please have them contact Ric Rosenkranz for a
grant application: ric@usatriathlon.org
or (888) 841-7995 x4222.
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RESULTS FROM LAST MONTH:
What is the furthest you will travel from home to get to a race this season?
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| 26-75 miles |
0% |
| 76-150 miles |
50% |
| 151-500 miles |
29% |
| 501-1,000 miles |
14% |
| 1,001-3,000 miles |
0% |
| More than 3,000 miles |
7% |
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