In the month of September we’re partnering with GOTRIbal to bring you great new content and to let you know about the GOTRIbal Multisport Adventure Retreat for Women on November 12, 2011!

What is GOTRIbal? It’s an organization created to empower and connect women through the journey of endurance sport. Much like TriCrowd, GOTRIbal works to bring new athletes into the sport to enjoy the beauty and challenge of triathlon while engaging in an active, healthy lifestyle.

Here’s a little bit more information about GOTRIbal from Tanya Maslach, Founder and Chief TRIbal Officer:

GOTRIbal Mission

GOTRIbal is about connections.

Connections that result in healthier, more active, more vibrant living.

The connections made here provide the resources, tools and means for women around the world to accomplish anything they dream of doing; finishing a 5K run, doing their 20th Ironman triathlon, asking for a promotion, starting a business or even leaving a destructive relationship.

GOTRIbal empowers, engages and excites women through the journey of endurance sports, and offers members the connections, mentorships and resources to realize their toughest goals.

The beauty is in our model: the Pay It Forward process. It’s simple. Once you’ve been given the gift of someone’s belief in you, you pay that gift forward to someone in the TRIbe. It’s that easy.

What Women in GOTRIbal experience…

Once women GOTRIbal , they experience a personal transformation that empowers them – and challenges them – to rethink their long-held beliefs. Through their personal journeys and connections… Read the rest

For those of you wondering who Alberto Juantorena is, here’s a brief rundown from Sporting Heroes.net:

ALBERTO JUANTORENA

DATE OF BIRTH
Tuesday, 21st November 1950

PLACE OF BIRTH
Santiago, Cuba

EVENT(S):
400m, 800m, 4x400m

CHAMPIONSHIP PERFORMANCES:
Olympics: 1976 Gold 400m, Gold 800m.

The athletics world could easily have never witnessed the brilliance of Cuban running legend Alberto Juantorena. Young Alberto’s first sporting love was basketball, but in 1971 he decided to try athletics as an alternative, moving to Havana where he came under the tutelage of Polish coach, Zygmunt Zabierzowski. Within a few months he had recorded a time of 48.2sec for 400m, and his progress was so rapid that he finished fifth in his 400m semi-final at the following year’s Olympic Games in Munich. He first starting making headlines in 1973 when he won the 400m at the World University Games in Moscow, and the following year he headed the world rankings, with a time of 44.7sec recorded at Turin on 24 July. In 1975, he produced the second-fastest time of the year, 44.80sec, when he finished second at the Pan-American Games in Mexico City on 18 August. Two days later, he anchored the Cuban 4 x 400m relay team to a silver medal at the same championships. In 1976, Juantorena decided to attempt the unusual double of the 400m and 800m at the Montreal Olympic Games. Although he was a definite gold medal chance for the… Read the rest

We’re happy to announce that we’re now a proud sponsor of Team TKD – Momma Fitness! Team TKD is a team of moms that do sport events each month – mostly runs (marathons, half marathons and 10Ks), bike events, and adventure races that help support great charities. They enjoy being active, promoting a healthy, active lifestyle to families and having fun! Starting this summer you’ll be able to catch the TriCrowd logo on Team TKD bags and apparel!

From Team TKD: “Our story — Team TKD is made of 8 women – There is 4 of us that do most all of the races, and 4 that do a few each year. Traci Davis, Kasey Ables, Darnelle Peterson and Shannon Sweatt are the 4 main eventers. We sometimes train together and sometimes on our own. We of course each have our own stories and reasons we do the events. We love the “mommy” time we get from being active! It is important to all of us to be positive roll models to our kids and also is our way of giving back. Each event we do has a great cause that we believe in and love knowing we were part of helping that cause. We have done several 5K’s, 10K’s, bike events, Half marathon and even a full. We are doing a triathlon soon and we LOVE the adventure races. Who doesn’t like to get muddy and climb a wall!! We always do the events as a team… Read the rest

In the month of March we’re introducing new featured bloggers and new coaching partners here at TriCrowd!

In our articles section you’ll notice new triathlon articles from our growing list of coaching partners. This month we welcome Frank Sole from Sole Swim Solutions, MaryBeth Moore from Creative Conditioning and The Nation’s Triathlon blogger team. They’ll share their triathlon knowledge and experience through new articles featured every week. Learn more about our new coaching partners below.

Frank Sole

Frank Sole is a premier swim coach and tactician with extensive experience coaching high school swim teams, club teams, masters swim programs and working with all levels of triathletes from beginner right up to Kona qualifiers. Frank enjoys writing about triathlon training, technique development, relationships and the lighter side of triathlon. You can read more from Frank over at Sole Swim Solutions.

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MaryBeth Moore

MaryBeth Moore is a nationally certified fitness coach with more than 7-years experience in the industry and 25-plus years experience as a competitive athlete. She has been a runner for over 17-years and has already completed several marathons. Just after jumping into the triathlon scene, she became hooked, and since her first full racing season she has passed the finish line in the top 5% of

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