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Spinning With The Pros....
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 02:00
Rub shoulders with the Pros.
Join OptumHealth Performance for a fun, FREE event to meet the 2012 men's and women's Optum Pro Cycling team where you'll enjoy full access to talk to the riders and coaches of the team, including 2011 Nature Valley Grand Prix champion Jesse Anthony and 2012 Olympic hopeful Janel Holcomb.
Enjoy the sponsor expo where you'll get to check out the Pro's gear and learn what it takes to fuel these riders.
Come early, the first 50 attendees get a free Optum t-shirt that you can have autographed by the team.
Ride one of the team bikes on our CompuTrainers to see how your cycling power measures up against a Pro rider....
How I Spent My
Bard Loving 'Shroom Picker....
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 02:30
Going Off Course - Have you ever hiked gaspingly to the top of what you thought was a pointy-top mountain and discovered that it didn't really have a pointy top? Talk about disappointment! 
When Twin Citizen triathlete Tiffany Storms (photo L) arrived at the top of Mount Normandale, the least-publicized member of Colorado's 14,000+ foot Collegiate Peaks (the others are Mt. Harvard, Mt. Oxford, Mt. Stanford, Mt. Columbia and Mt. Yale), she found that there was enough room up there to park a couple of rock star tour buses. She had hoped to be able to balance on the point for a full minute, sorta like the guy in the photo (R), which she later learned wasn't real. (The guy was Photoshopped into the pic. If you enlarge the shot you'll be able to see a rock star tour bus parked alongside the heel of his left foot.)
A few years have passed and Tiffany, who is very, very pretty and looks great in an Ironman beanie, can finally laugh about her dispiriting mountain adventure....
Triathlon Legs Are Good...
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 02:00
ED. We filched this motivating story and images from Craig Alexander's Facebook page.
A new study called, "Chronic Exercise Preserves Lean Muscle Mass in Masters Athletes," which you can read HERE graphically illustrates what happens to your muscles (with and without) the type of regular and beneficial exercise that the sport of triathlon provides....
