Coyotes triathlon & bike club
newsletter
Volume 3, Issue 8
August 2008
Americas Finest City Half Marathon
Special points of interest:
Americas finest
City Half Marathon
Americas Finest City Half
Marathon is quickly becoming one of the favorite run
races of the coyotes. With 8
of our coyotes participating
in this event it promises to be
a great show for our club.
Look for the coyotes white
running jerseys to be present
at this event.
Santa Barbara
Triathlon
Inside this issue:
News
2
Coaching Tips
2
Coeur d'Alene
3
Ironman Results
Carlsbad Results
4
Coyote Good Samaritan Award
5
Coyote Good Samaritan Award
Cont.
6
Americas Finest City Half is
also the third of the Triple
Crown of Half Marathons
and two of our coyotes are
hoping to finish this race in
order to complete the task of
the triple crown. The Half
Marathon begins at HistorCabrillo National Monument,
with its majestic view of both
San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean, follows scenic
San Diego Bay and Harbor
Island along the Embarcadero to the Star of India,
winds through downtown
San Diego, and ends in beautiful Balboa Park. The race
starts at 7:00 A.M. and it is
usually followed by a nice
Coyote Breakfast T.B.D
Zurita, Tom Gal, Eduardo
Argueta and Alfredo Zepeda
on this race and make us
proud in obtaining your triple
crown medals.
Ahuuuuuuuuuuu
Good Luck to Steve Edwards, Jeff Weeks, Monica
Lewis, Alberto Saenz, Omar
Santa Barbara Triathlon
The Santa Barbara Long
Course Triathlon is one of
the most beautiful and challenging courses in the country. It's unique distance gives
athletes a great opportunity
to step it up and test their
speed on a longer course. The
generally calm ocean swim
leads way to a deceptively
challenging bike course and
solid run course.
The swim consists of a 1 mile
ocean swim that follows a
straight forward rectangle
along the shore. The 34 Mile
bike ride is a spectacular bike
ride that starts and finishes
with a flat section along the
beautiful santa Barbara coast
line, but has a very technical
and challenging middle section. The 10 Mile run is
mostly on a bike path, but it
does passes through some
private residential streets and
has a couple of very challenging hills.
This year we have one of our
coyotes participating in this
event. Glenn Kaplan is a local
favorite, having the support
of his parents that live there,
this will be very familiar territory for our coyote who has
participated in this event in
numerous occasions. He will
be looking to improve on his
time and set a PR. This will
Santa Barbara Triathlon August 23, 2008
2008 Sponsors
Members & Birthdays
Please welcome this months
newest Coyotes
1. Eduardo Lizarraga
2. Eduardo Argueta
Our total number of coyotes is
now to 65 with the potential to
keep growing.
Luis Zepeda
Omar Zurita
August 22nd
August 29th
Happy Birthday to all, remember to celebrate in style and be
ready for a new age group challenge in 2008.
August has 5 coyotes celebrating their birthday on our coyote
birthday tracker .
Steve Ryder
Thomas Fine
Gaby Saenz
Sponsorship Announcement
Coyotes are proud to announce
that they have successfully secured another sponsorship with
Excel. Excel is a Tijuana Based
company that has offices in the
United States and they are leaders in communications and
computer equipment sales and
engineering.
August 5th
August 14th
August 20th
Announcements
Coyotes are proud to announce
that we have successfully secured another sponsorship with
Rudy Project. Rudy Project is a
modern, marketing oriented
company that has established
itself as a leading brand worldwide. Rudy Project designs and
manufactures hi-tech sunglasses,
goggles, helmets and accessories
using the application of science,
advanced materials and computer technology to create functional, aesthetically superior and
technologically advanced products.
Chula Vista and ready to provide all of our athletes with
their best quality pizza in the
south bay.
- Another successful sponsorship with the Coyotes Triathlon
& Bike Club came from Mama
Mia Pizza. Originally out of
Tijuana Mexico, now growing
and expanding into the USA in
Coaching Tips
Keep Your Cool: 10 Ways to
Beat the Heat
Since few of us have the luxury
of putting our jobs and lives on
hold and traveling to our key
late-season event several weeks
early to acclimate, here are 10
guidelines that will help you to
conquer the heat and realize
your full potential on race day.
1. Boost Your Fitness
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2. Acclimatize
3. Determine Your Sweat Rate
4. Hydrate
5. Always Include Electrolytes
6. Up Your Carbs
7. Make a Plan
8. Wear Cool Clothing
Follow these guidelines and you
will maximize your performance
in the heat. Remember to keep
cool, get the calories you need
and keep hydrating. It will take
some effort, but the results are
well worth it.
By Paul Regensburg and Lance
Watson through active.com
9. Develop Cooling Strategies
10. Rehydrate and Recover
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Ironman Coeur d Alene results
Ironman Coeur d Alene took
place on June 22nd. The water
temperature days prior to the
Tim Wilson
The triathlon, everything
seemed to be in order until the
dreaded mile 80 of the bike
came upon him, he was doing
very good in his vintage bike
until the bike gave out due to
its old age. Tim was getting
ready to crank up a hill when he
noticed that his rear derailure
was making funny noises, so he
looked back and started to notice that pieces of the derailure
where starting to come off and
slowly hitting the pavement as
he kept riding, only to find him-
12:45:27
Tim Wilson
race was in the low 50 s, luckily
for them come race day, the
water warmed up to a nice 60
degrees, making it ideal for Tim
Wilson, the only coyote to take
part in this beautiful race. Tim
made it out of the water with a
12:45:27
very respectable time of
1:12:32, got a quick transition
and started the bike portion of
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maining 32 miles and tackling
some pretty nasty hills. He was
so trilled to hit T2 and start the
marathon, because he knew
that at this point there was no
denying him from the coveted
IRONMAN title. Tim im-
Tim Wilson
Tim Wilson
where able to get him one gear
and one gear only, so he had a
fix bike to go through the re-
12:45:27
self without a rear derailure
couple of minutes after. Faced
with a single gear and over extended chain, he pondered
turning back and calling it a
day, but with true warrior attitude he decided that he would
continue the challenge even if it
meant walking up the hills and
free wheeling the down hills.
This fiasco lasted about 45 minutes until finally someone from
the race crew spotted this limping coyote and was able to
somewhat help him. They
Tim Wilson
12:45:27
proved on his marathon run by
1:00 hr over last years IM. Tim
YOU ARE AN IRONMAN.
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Carlsbad Results
The Carlsbad Triathlon took
place on July 13th, 2008 and we
had two coyotes representing.
Monica Lewis
competing shortly after his return from ironman France. He
was one of the first ones out of
the water and continued to
push on the bike and run, he
looked good the entire day and
was actually happy to finish in a
1:38:45
In the female division Monica
Lewis came very close to cracking the top 10 in her age group
with a finish of 11th, this has
only lit the fire for the up coming races. She had a total time
Alberto Saenz
Monica Lewis
Alberto
Monica Lewis
1:38:45
of 1:38:45, and setting a PR for
this race course. In the men s
division we had Alberto Saenz
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Congratulations to both of our
coyotes for incredible performances and for representing the
club with the club colors, it is
always important to have your
coyote gear out there for recognition and in order to get the
very well deserved ahuuuuu
1:38:45
Toro Saenz
1:27:55
1:27:55
time of 1:27:55, placing him in
22 out of 97 in his age group
and a considerable relief for his
body to only have to be out
there for 2 hrs instead of the 13
hrs he needed for IM France.
Alberto Saenz 1:27:55
from the spectators,. Here is a
big Ahuuuuuu from the club
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Coyote Good Samaritan Award
Steve Wiesner
So Wednesday one of our
Coyotes, Steve El morro
Grande Wiesner did an act of
goodwill that needs to be recognized amongst all of us. He
did something that not many of
us would have done and we are
grateful that the outcome was
the way it turned out. Please
read below for the story of
what happened and his good
Samaritan actions.
From Steve Wiesner
I have to tell you a true road
biking story that happened
over the weekend. Sorry it's
soo long. But, it's an alert to all
who are training out in public...
So, I was out riding the Santa
Ana Trail, feeling safe that it's
off the street away from cars.
Cruising along on my side of
the paved bike lane. Enjoying
the ride, this guy without his
helmet passes me on a nice red
bike, with his long blonde hair
blowing in the wind. I appreciate his speed, being young and
free. Not a minute later this
other biker with long black hair
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is coming back in the opposite
direction of me and is in my
lane really going hard throwing
the bike to the left and right as
he pedals. I have to move out
of the path to let him through.
Right behind him is that first
guy I mentioned with the long
blonde hair. But this time his
eye is black and blue, nose broken, mouth is spitting blood, so
much so that it is pouring
blood down onto the front of
his jersey. It's horrifying as he is
running at top speed on his
hard bike shoes and screaming
that guy hit me and stole my
bike!!! Chills run down my body
as I pass by him. I stop my bike
thinking I have to do something. So, I turn my bike around
and ride up along side of the
running man and ask him how
did this guy hit you? "With his
fist;" he says. "Did he have a
gun or weapon?" "No gun, but
you gotta help me get my bike
back I don't know what I'd do
if I don't have my bike. Please
help me get my bike back." "All
right!" I say (with a loud roar
deep inside me) "I'll go get your
bike!" As I ride off, he cries"watch out! ...he's got a knife!"
So, I speed off like I've never
rode before, the lion inside me
is raging and pushes me faster.
About a mile later I can't believe that I caught up to the
attacker. I say out loud; "that is
not your bike, give it back! I
don't want to fight you, just get
off the bike and walk away!" He
turns around and is really
suprised. He starts to slow
down and I notice that the guy
next to him on a mountain bike
slows down too. There are two
of them! Oh no! I first thought
there was only one attacker
with no weapon, now there's a
knife and now there are two
assailants. So, I ride on and
keep pleading for other people
along the bike path to help me
stop the theif. I must have
passed by five groups of people
with all sorts of looks, but no
one helps. Typical, no one
wants to get involved. Well, I
think I'm on my own. So, I
continue to ride following him
and calling out. The attacker
starts to slow down and speed
up, slow down and speed up
several times. I keep my distance because of his knife and I
call out to him, "I could ride all
day and I'll easily be able to
follow you!" I yell that he is not
going to get away with this
crime. He quickly veers off the
trail with his buddy. His buddy
on a mountain bike jumps the
curb and crosses McFadden
Street in Santa Ana, a double
laned road in both directions.
The attacker tries to ride the
stolen road bike over the curb,
but his tennis shoes slip off the
small clip-on pedals of the
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Coyote Good Samaritan Award (Cont.)
stolen bike. Down he goes!
Bike falling in one lane, attacker sliding off the bike into
the next lane of in-coming traffic. I steer my bike over to the
drive way, not over the curb
(hey, gotta take care of my
Cannondale system 6!) and
now I'm right on the fallen
stolen bike. I stick my foot
down onto the fallen stolen
bike back wheel and claim"I've got this bike just walk
away. It's over!" I demand. The
attacker gets up mad and slowly
starts to walk toward me. He's
reaching behind his back for
the knife! He looks around and
sees his buddy is all ready
across the street and headed
down the side walk away from
us. Another truck veers around
him. "Zoom!" The attacker keeps walking toward
me... one more look around...
and he bolts! He's running
away from me. "Aha!" I grab
the fallen bike and pull it off
the street before a semi-truck
crushes it. As I roll it along the
sidewalk back to it's rightful
owner and bleeding victim. I
notice a guy talking into his
shirt, he's saying; "it's a a guy
with long black hair wearing a
black t-shirt, they are travelling
East on McFadden..." I tell him
to get back on his bike and
ride, follow them. "Let's get
them!" So, he takes off. As I
deliver the stolen bike to the
rightful owner. Police helicopters fly over head, about twenty
cop cars drive by in all directions. The bloody victim is
shaking and crying thanking me
profusely. He doesn't know
what he'd do without his bike.
He says he could buy another
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Ipod, but not another bike like
this!
So, the police come to ask for
all the info on the attackers and
what happened. I overhear one
of the witnesses yell his story
with exuberance; "this huge guy
(me) rode so fast like Armstrong and he was so big
like Shaquille Oneil and grab
the bike like a small basketball!"
The firemen paramedics come
later to clean up the victim. The
firemen after hearing some of
the stories walk over and pat
me on the back saying "You the
man!" "...you got those bad
guys!" "...nice job!"
So, I politely ask the police
officer in charge if I could go
now. I'd like to bike home before it gets dark and have dinner with my wife if it's
okay. He gets in front of all
the crowds of people now surrounding us and takes me
into his cop car. He says he'll
have his best man watch my
bike. He asks me if I could addentify the attackers from inside the tinted glass of the cop
car. The cops caught them
a couple of blocks away. The
attackers took off their pony
tails and one is wearing his hair
all bushy and both took off
their black shirts. One is pretty
muscular with lots of prison
type tattoes. He looks Samoan, a lot bigger and stronger
than I had anticipated. I got
lucky we didn't fight. The other
guy is wearing a white t-shirt.
It's kinda confusing. The
cop tells me that suspects
sometimes change their appear-
ance right before they are
caught. The cop pulls the hair
back away from the Samoan
face. Yep, that's they guy. And
the other baby faced guy was
with the attacker.
of the firemen said he wears
mace with him attached to his
shirt when he rides. So, I
bought pepper spray for me
and my wife.
So, I could go on. But one
thing the cop told me afterwards is that crime is up! Be
more careful out there. One
Congratulations to Steve El
Morro Grande Wiesner for
stepping up for what he believes in and trying to help an
innocent guy get back his personal belongings and his loving
bike.
Ahuuuuuuuu and way to represent the coyotes in the community Steve.
Kuddos from the Coyotes
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Coyotes triathlon & bike Club
6096 Citracado Circle
Carlsbad CA, 92009
Phone: 619-307-0900
Fax: 858-642-2554
E-mail: [email protected]
www.triclubcoyotes.com
Coyotes Triathlon &
Bike Club
Coyotes Triathlon & Bike Club is an organized club dedicated to the
educational, recreational and social pursuit of triathlon, cycling and
general physical fitness of all ages and abilities, enabling them to
achieve their athletic goals and represent the sport of triathlon within
the community .
It was founded by a group of friends sharing a common interest to have fun
and socialize at the same time while doing something good for our health.
Coyotes triathlon & bike club was founded on June 2006 and continues to
grow.
Thank You to our 2008 Sponsors:
Coyotes at 2nd
annual BBQ
(L-R) Jeff Weeks,
Sandy Guizar,
Benoit Guizar,
Marc Guerra, Alfredo Ramirez,
Karla Ramirez,
Kim Schreiner,
Jay Brant,Alfredo
Zepeda, Valentina Zepeda Omar
Zurita, Monica
Lewis, Brian Kildow, Florence,
Luis Zepeda,
Noemi, Nancie
Constandse, JC
Constandse,
Lucero Zamudio