Multisports Orange County (CA)

Here is a tentative list of races we may have athletes attending in 2008. Several of these events will inlcude specific training programs and course reviews to prepare athletes to race to their full potential on these courses. To see results, photos, and stories on how the team did at these events go to our RACE HIGHLIGHTS PAGE.

2008 MULTISPORTS OC EVENTS CALENDAR
(TEAM EVENTS: 10+ club members expected to participate)
Scroll down for our Youth & Junior Events Calendar

1/6 Orange County Marathon & Half Marathon TEAM EVENT
1/12 Stage Coach Century - San Diego 
2/9 Palm Springs Century
3/2 Bulldog Bike Race
3/6-9 Solvang Bike Camp & Century TEAM EVENT
3/30 Newport Beach Spirit Run
3/30 Ironman CA 70.3
4/6 Carlsbad 5000
4/13 IRONMAN ARIZONA
4/13 Big Blue Xterra Off Road Tri - Lake Castaic
4/20 Desert Triathlon - Sprint or Olympic TEAM EVENT
4/21 Boston Marathon
5/3-4 Wildflower Weekend
5/17 Xterra Temecula - 5 & 10K Trail Scramble
5/18 Xterra Temecula - Sprint or Olympic TEAM EVENT
5/18 Encinitas Sprint Triathlon
6/1  IRONMAN 70.3 - Boise, ID TEAM EVENT
6/7 ITU World Championships - Vancouver
6/8 USAT Aquathlon Champs - Huntington Beach TEAM EVENT
6/8 Redondo Beach Tri
6/22 Ironman Couer d' Alene
6/15 Danskin Womens Sprint Tri at Disneyland
6/14-15 CrossFit Triathlon Certification
6/29 Breath of Life - Ventura, CA TEAM EVENT
7/4 Laguna Niguel 4th of July Run in the park 5k/10k.
7/13 Carlsbad Sprint Triathlon
7/19 Camp Pendleton International Triathlon TEAM EVENT
7/20 San Clemente Ocean Festival TEAM EVENT
7/20 Vineman 70.3
7/27 Solano Beach Sprint Tri & Duathlon TEAM EVENT
8/3 Snow Valley Mountain Triathlon
8/09 CAMP PENDLETON SPRINT TRI
8/17 Lake Arrowhead Sprint Triathlon
9/7 Pacific Coast Sprint Triathlon TEAM EVENT
9/14 Malibu Nautica Triathlon
9/20 USAT OLYMPIC DISTANCE NATIONALS - Portland, OR 
9/21 Long Beach Sprint Triathlon 
9/28 Orange County Olympic Triathlon
10/3-5 Tinley's Dirty Adventures
10/11 Ironman World Championships - HI
10/12 Hermosa Beach Sprint Triathlon
10/18 USAT Club Nationals - Las Vegas TEAM EVENT
10/26 XTERRA World Championships - Maui
11/2 Muddy Buddy - San Dimas
11/2 Dino Dash 5k - Tustin
11/27 Dana Point Turkey Trot 5k/10k TEAM EVENT
11/29 XTERRA Topanga Trail Run
11/30 Turkey Tri - San Dimas TEAM EVENT
12/14 XTERRA Crystal Cove Trail Run TEAM EVENT
12/14 Make Room for Santa 5 & 10K

USEFUL RACE SERIES LINKS:

 CAMP PENDLETON RACES
Ironman Races
KOZ Enterprise Races
XTERRA Races
Pacific Sports
Renegade Racing

Michael Collins is the first Level 4 Certified Pose Method of Running instructor who is able to certify other coaches. This is a 3 day process that may be done over a single weekend, or spread over 3 different meetings. The cost to become a certified Pose Running Coach is $1,200.

Prerequisites to becoming a certified coach is to have read the book Pose Method of Running by Dr. Nicholas Romanov, watched the Pose Method of Running video (order HERE), and have an existing Pose Certified Coach recommend them for the certification program.

The benefits of becoming a Pose Certified Running Coach include:

• Deeper knowledge and understanding of the Pose Method and how to teach it.
• Details on how to do running video analysis
• Lesson and drill progression to use with students
• Pose Method of Running Coaches Manual
• PoseTech.com Coaches Technical Running Shirt
• Personalized Pose Coach business cards
• Equipment items useful to teaching the Pose Method (Rubber bands, Tempo Trainer, etc)

To find out when the next Pose Coaches Certification will be check the www.PoseTech.com website.

LONG BEACH, CA - In his final race in the States before moving back to Switzerland for a "real job" with Ovalteen (no he's not really getting deported), Ian Pyott won the Long Beach Sprint Triathlon convincingly for the 3rd straight year. He was nearly 2:00 ahead of the next finisher, and was able to comfortably "float" the run after schooling the field on the bike. Ian emerged from the water only in 4th place, partially due to wearing Gabriel Steinman's oversized borrowed wetsuit, since he left his suit in Switzerland on his last visit. But he was easily within striking distance and used his "Houdini" fast transition to leave first out on the bike. Coming off the bike he was nearly 3 minutes ahead of the next athlete to come in.

Other Multisports OC and Nova athletes to have great days included Cameron Eckman who finished 4th overall at just a shade over an hour (1:00:07),  who finished Scott Spence  6th overall  Dan Graham, Mike McNeill (3rd in Clydesdale)

Others to participate included Cathy, Ryan & Shawn Dolan,

New team record setters included Kevin Hayden and Nicci Fusaro, breaking Jeff Ramos record for missing the most races entered in a season. Others to miss the start line due to injury, burn-out or afraid to enter the less than pristine water included Kerry Deputy, Art Rice, & Emily Goldstein. Patrick Pollock used the least amount of effort to finish 11th in his age group with a 55 year old DH.

See Race Pics Here (Be sure to turn on the Captions if viewing as a slide show)
http://multisportsoc.smugmug.com/gallery/3526874#199330633

Full Results Here
http://www.onlineraceresults.com/event/view_event.php?event_id=2181

ZUMA BEACH, CA - TOYOTA ONE was the appropriately named Mixed Relay team of Michele Brown (Toyota employee), secret Swiss racing weapon Ian Pyott, and Coach Michael Collins (Real Toyota Tundra Owner commercial guy). They combined to win the Mixed Relay Category in 1:20:24, and had the second fastest overall relay time behind the all Male team title sponsor Nautica put together (1:19:22).

Michele led off the relay to do swim despite a swollen and weak ankle from a recent twist and fall. She wrapped it up before the race, so she could cover the significant distance to hand off the timing chip to Ian Pyott who smoked one the fastest overall bike splits of the day averaging 25.9 MPH for the hilly 18 mile course (almost as fast as a Prius). After completing the fastest Transition 2 relay exchange split of day (:55 seconds), Michael Collins took off to run the 2nd fastest Relay run time of the day (23:16) averaging 5:49 mile pace for the 4 mile course.

The Toyota One Relay won the Mixed Category by a whopping 9 minutes and 12 seconds.

See more photos or the TOYOTA ONE Relay Team here:

http://multisportsoc.smugmug.com/gallery/3487410#196411555

See Open Relay Results here:

http://www.nauticamalibutri.com/results/2007/Relay/OpenRelays.pdf

Compare to the Celebrity Relays here:

http://www.nauticamalibutri.com/results/2007/Celebrity/Celebrity.pdf

Multisports OC Coach Michael Collins offers professional bike fitting and posture evaluations which include video taping and analysis. The cost is $80 an hour (an average fit takes betwen 1-1/2 to 2 hours).

 "I feel a good bike fit involves more than just moving the seat and bars around with a rider going easy on a stationary trainer. It's important to look at an athletes position under load and evaluate their posture on the bike, power output and comfort for more than just a few minutes of riding. Also, seat height can be evaluated better by using video analysis to see what the natural angles of the rider are when they are really riding."

"Since I do not work at a bike shop, so I have no vested interest in whether an athlete buys new equipment or not. I try to get them to the most opitmal position possible with what they have, and if that is not possible explain why they can't and what changes need to made to their equipment (stem length, type of aero bars or saddle, centermount vs laid back seat post, or just too big or small of frame to achieve a safe and comfortable fit)."

 See a Before/After video clip HERE 

- Coach Michael Collins, Certified FIST triathlon bike fitter

Contact Coach Michael Collins  to schedule a bike fit and posture evaluation at 949-338-6682.