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Cape Cod Athletic Club - July/Oct 2007 sports enhancement, enrichment, and reform through parent education, the E-magazine, Parents for Good Sports, would like to offer the first edition FREE to our USAT annual members. The magazine stimulates a national conversation about how parents can become informed citizens in their child's teams and communities. USAT would like to encourage all parents to check out this magazine and take an active role in their child's sports endeavors. To view the first edition go to the website, www.parentsforgoodsports.org and click on the CURRENT ISSUE link to the magazine. Happy Reading! Membership Milestone: USA Triathlon Surpasses 100,000 6 September 2007 -- USA Triathlon is pleased to announce that its membership has reached 100,000, marking the first time the organization has hit that milestone in its 25- year history. "Reaching the 100,000 plateau is truly symbolic for two reasons. One, it legitimizes our belief that the multisport lifestyle is one of the fastest growing segments of our society. This is a sport that can be embraced by the young and old, by the quick and the slow and by any person who has the internal drive to test their athletic capabilities," said USAT Executive Director Skip Gilbert. "Triathlon and all of the disciplines that surround multisport is just not Ironman anymore, it's for every man and every woman. Reaching 100,000 also places us as one of the larger sports within the Olympic family. Only a handful of NGB's have a larger membership base and given the popularity of multisport, I don't see an end of our growth in sight." The amazing growth has been steady since the sport was introduced as an Olympic sport in 2000. At that time membership was 21,341. But the most remarkable growth has occurred over the past three years, where the rate has hit 22 percent. Membership was just 58,073 at the end of 2005 and grew to 84,787 by the end of last year. Two USAT Members Recognized Jeffrey Lucy was just renewing his membership. Little did he know that he would be playing a key role in a momentous occasion in USA Triathlon history. Lucy, 23, of Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, officially became Mr. 100,000 when he submitted his membership renewal on August 28 and as a result earned a great prize package from USAT and several of its sponsors. Douglas Sham, 25, of Silver Bay, N.Y., also got in on the fun by correctly guessing the date that USAT would reach 100,000. He actually was among five members to guess August 28, but he won on the tiebreaker when he was the only one to correctly guess the 100,000th member would be a male. That guess earned Sham a free one-year USAT bronze membership, a USAT-logoed wetsuit, and a swag bag of additional products from USAT partners valued at $750. Close to 1,400 members entered the "Guess the Date" contest. USAT News Just A Click Away with New Media 11 September 2007 -- USAT members and multisport fans have more and more ways to get their multisport information fix from USAT. First the magazine, then enewsletters, then audio updates. BLOG Now, you can keep up on the latest issues by following along with USAT’s blog at thetriathlonlife.wordpress.com. Executive Director Skip Gilbert – and other USAT staff members – will offer insight on topics of concern for USAT members and others involved in multisport. Take a read at the current post and provide a response from your own perspective. Check it out at thetriathlonlife.wordpress.com. VIDEO Not enough? How about visiting the USAT channel on Youtube and watch videos from USAT National Championships, see interviews with age group and elite athletes, improve your performance with racing and training tips, and check out other videos celebrating the multisport lifestyle. More content is set to be added soon. Tune in at www.youtube.com/usatriathlon. Leave a comment or sign up as a friend or subscriber. RSS If you are up on the latest technology, you can now get USAT news alerts via RSS feeds. Sign up at www.usatriathlon.org/ misc/RSS.aspx and you can be alerted via email or on a desktop RSS reader when USAT posts new press releases and audio updates to its website. PODCASTS Speaking of audio updates, these popular weekly news soundbytes are now in the form of podcasts. You can subscribe via iTunes and download the audio directly to your mp3 player. Find out more at www.usatriathlon.org/misc/podcasts.aspx. {Ed. The amount of training material now available on the internet is simply staggering. USAT has shown exceptional initiative in embracing all the available technologies and launching themselves wholly into new media outlets. We enthusiastically recommend that everyone make use of these fantastic, and free, training tools.} 2008 Regional Age Group Championship Announced 5 October 2007 -- We are proud to announce that the Northeast Regional Age Group Championship will be held at the Keuka Lake Triathlon on June 8th. Registration opens on December 1st, 2007. 2008 Regional Championship races (intermediate distance only) will qualify the top 33% or top 5 finishers (whichever is greater) in each age group for the Age Group National Championship. 2008 Regional Championship races will NOT be used to qualify athletes for the 2008 World Championships. Please visit www.usatriathlon.org for complete Regional Championship and Age Group National Championship information. USA Triathlon Announces 2008 National Championship Schedule 1 November 2007 -- USA Triathlon is pleased to announce the dates and locations for the majority of its 2008 National Championship events in triathlon, duathlon, and winter triathlon. The 2008 schedule of multisport championships offers a variety of disciplines, distances and destinations for elites and age groupers alike throughout the heart of the competitive season. 10
Cape Cod Athletic Club - July/Oct 2007 Highlights of the schedule include: · Short Course Duathlon Nationals is heading to Richmond, Va., for a weekend of duathlon activities, including an offroad duathlon, a citizen's race, and youth and junior elite national championships · Winter Triathlon is headed to the Pacific Northwest and Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Ore. · Championships for youth, youth elite and junior elite are coming to Colorado Springs, Colo., where the young triathletes will be able to race in the city where Olympians train · In short course triathlon, Age Group Nationals and Elite Nationals are at the same venue for the first time in more than 10 years as they travel to Hagg Lake outside Portland, Ore. For more information and the complete championship schedule, visit http://www.usatriathlon.org/. USAT&F News Webb breaks mile AR 21 July 2007 -- Three-time U.S. 1,500m champion Alan Webb on Saturday broke the American record in the mile, clocking 3:46.91 at the Atletiek Vlaanderenmeet in Brasschaa, Belgium. The mark breaks the record of 3:47.69 set by National Track & Field Hall of Famer Steve Scott in 1982 and makes Webb the eighth-fastest man in history, behind Hicham El Guerrouj, Noah Ngeny, Noureddine Morceli, Steve Cram, Daniel Komen, Venuste Niyongabo and Said Aouita. Webb's agent, Ray Flynn, reports unofficial quarter-mile splits for Webb during the race as 56.1, 57.4, 56.8 and 56.2. Masback Blog makes debut 21 August 2007 -- USATF CEO Craig Masback has posted his first blog on the USATF Web site, www.usatf.org. A direct communication between Masback and the track, running and race walking communities, the blog will appear regularly on the USATF Web site and will feature Masback's insights and opinions on a range of topics. His initial blog tackles the media's often distorted and outdated view of track and field. You can find his most recent blog at http://www.usatf.org/ about/leadership/MasbackBlog/2007-08-20.asp. Business and Recognition Time at USATF-NE Board Annual Meeting 21 September 2007 -- A mixture of recognition and business took place at the USATF New England Annual Meeting on Thursday, September 20. The meeting opened with Athlete of the Month presentations for the last year. President Ken Robichaud opened the business meeting and several brief presentations from the director, sports chairs, and officers supplemented printed reports. Elections were next on the agenda, only sports chairs up for balloting this year. The only new additions will be a pair of individuals filling vacant positions, both for masters committees; Michael Travers (Watertown MA/MassVelocity) will take on the responsibilities for Masters Track and Field Chair, while Skip Cleaver (GCS Triad/Nashua NH) will move into Masters Long Distance Running Chair position. All other incumbents return except for the Youth Chair position, which is currently unfilled. All three athletes representatives will return (Larry Libow, Sarah Lawson, Josh Seeherman). Due to time and expense commitments, there were only eleven nominees for the association's 15 delegates for the USATF National annual meeting in Honolulu November 28- December 2. Other individuals may be added to the delegation based on interest in serving the association. New Business included discussion of the background checks/child protection program that begins in 2007, and a review of the new USATF logo that has been phased in during the past year. The meeting then adjourned. The Board meets monthly to review local issues and to carry out programs in the sport. Gebrselassie sets world marathon record 1 October 2007 -- Two-time Olympic 10,000m gold medalist Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia took advantage of near perfect conditions in dominating a talented field Sunday in winning the 2007 Berlin Marathon with a new men's world record time of 2 hours 4 minutes 26 seconds. Gebrselassie got out quickly and was never challenged in smashing Paul Tergat's previous WR set in 2003 in Berlin by a whopping 29 seconds. Gebrselassie has now broken 24 World records during his storied career. "It was something very special today, because this is the marathon world record," said Gebrselassie. "That is something different in comparison to the 5,000 or 10,000m, because the marathon is the king of the distance races." USATF study reveals charity fundraising by runners, walkers surges to $714+ million 29 October 2007 -- Marking a trend of continued growth, road runners and walkers raised $714 million for charity in 2006, USA Track & Field (USATF) announced Monday. The figure marks a nearly 9 percent increase over 2005 and shows continued, steady increases since USATF began its annual charity survey in 2002. The Nike Women's Marathon and Half-Marathon was named the 2006 USATF Charitable Race of the Year, while the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and its GREAT STRIDES program was honored as 2006 Charitable Organization of the Year. , 11
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