Gale Bernhardt to present to the Boulder Triathlon Club, 7:15pm, April 12th

Location:  Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, CO

Don’t miss our next Club Gathering, to be hosted by our new platinum sponsor, Full Cycle, and hear from one of the top coaches in triathlon, Gale Bernhardt.

About Gale…

Gale Bernhardt was selected from a small number of top coaches to be the 2004 USA Triathlon Olympic Coach for both the men’s and women’s triathlon teams for the Athens, Greece Olympic Games. This honor was in addition to the selection by USA Triathlon to serve as the 2003 Pan American Games Coach for both the men’s and women’s teams.

Her first Olympic experience was in the role of personal cycling coach for an individual cyclist at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Winning the 2000 USA Cycling National Championship race, which was also an Olympic Trials race, secured the athlete a spot on the Olympic team.

Gale has instructed or coached athletes since 1974. She has a BS degree from Colorado State University, is certified as a Level I Coach by USA Cycling and a Level III Coach by USA Triathlon. These are the highest certifications available in both sports.

She served on the USA Triathlon National Coaching Committee from 2000 to 2006. Elected by her peers, she served as the committee chair-elect immediately after joining the committee. She went on to serve as the chairperson for five consecutive years, helping to shape policies to foster the coaching program.

She is one of only a few, select USA Triathlon World Cup coaches. With the USA World Cup experience in hand, she was selected to serve at multiple races as the World Cup Coach for the BG International Triathlon Union Sport Development squad. She has also worked internationally as a speaker at coaching clinics and corporate team championships.

Gale uses her education and experience to help endurance athletes meet their race-related goals. Athletes utilizing her personal guidance include Olympic and professional cyclists; top national-level masters road racers, ultra-endurance cyclists, runners and multisport racers. Her athletes have placed at Olympic Trials and National Championships. She has coached multisport athletes to podium finishes at world championship events and others have traveled to the Hawaii Ironman competition.

Whether you are training to complete an event or compete at an event, you can use the same training principles that elite athletes use to improve your fitness. Pre-built plans are available for several different race distances and athletic goals. Gale’s legendary and proven training plans are available online by selecting the “Pre-built Training Plans” tab.

She is a regular columnist for several print and online magazines. For example, she has articles in, but not limited to, Triathlete, the Active.com newsletters (Triathlete, Cyclist, Insider, Runner, Outside, and Women) Inside Triathlon, Rocky Mountain Sports and Fitness and the VeloNews Gear Guide.

She is recognized as an endurance exercise authority, with interviews in Outside, Runner’s World, Bicycling, Her Sports, USA Today, Muscle and Fitness HERS for Women, Newsday, Self, Rocky Mountain News,  and Cooking Light to name a few.

Join the BTC Leads and Neal Henderson for our March 8th Club Gathering which will be held in the Sports Science area at the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine (311 Mapleton Ave). We have the good fortune of being able to hear from the Director of Sports Science, Neal Henderson, and what is always an exciting and interesting talk on how to be more scientific in your triathlon training.

Check out Neal’s bio by clicking here.

The meeting will start at 6:30pm and I look forward to seeing everyone there!

Graz