Overview Boulder Colorado has long been recognized as the best place to train by long distance athletes all over the world. Coach Luis Vargas will host the Boulder Triathlon Training Camp May 9-11, 2008. For the past couple of years coach Vargas has hosted training camps in Boulder. This is his first camp for 2008. This camp is a perfect opportunity to immerse yourself into a weekend of all triathlon. Coach Vargas will share his personal experiences as an athlete as well as a coach and co-founder of MarkAllenOnline.com. The camp is a perfect blend of learning with some altitude training in Boulder’s most popular training routes. Zipp Weaponry will be at the camp providing Their race demo wheels for the Saturday morning ride plus special purchase pricing for campers. Our bike shop partner Outspokin will be at hand for support Its official Hawaii Ironman Age Group Champion W35-39 Kelly Lear-Kaul has registered for the camp. She is a long time member of MarkAllenOnline. As usual she is not missing any training so she will lead a small camp group on a 5 hour ride early Saturday morning.  The camp dates are as follows: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 9-11, 2008 (4 slots available) The camp will be geared towards athletes that are wanting to learn how to train properly in addition to improving their swim and run technique as well as their bike positioning. Talks will have an informal feel as they will be done during meals as well as on the field. Training sessions will be done on the most popular Boulder routes and when it is time to eat we will meet at some of the best local restaurants and eateries. The camp will not be a mega training weekend but there will be a little of each sport on Saturday and Sunday. You can very well train at your own pace. The toughest training session will be a 2 hour ride to Jamestown that includes a steady 2000 ft climb. This is coach Vargas personal favorite ride. The ride has a bike path most of the way and follows a creek, it is what riding your bike was meant to be. A lot personal attention will be guaranteed as the camp is limited to 15 athletes.

Luis Vargas – Coach Vargas has resided in Boulder for 15 years and is co-founder and coach of MarkAllenOnline.com a coaching service he established with Ironman World Champion Mark Allen in 2001. He has been a multisport athlete since his teenage years when he swam and ran cross country during the same season. Coach Vargas has raced as a triathlon age grouper for 20 years. In his early 30's he was a member of Team USA at the Olympic distance and finihed the Hawaii Ironman 5 times with a PR of 9:34. He took a 10 year break from Ironman racing but in 2006 returned to Kona for his 6th finish in 11:25. He is a USAT Level II certified triathlon coach and a USA Cycling Certified Coach.

Preliminary Camp Schedule
Schedule subject to change.

Friday
6:00pm - 7:00pm Registration
7:00pm - 9:00pm Bike positioning

Saturday
7:30am - 8:45am Swim session
9:00am - 10:00am Breakfast and lecture on endurance training, long sessions and bricks
11:00am - 1:00pm Bike ride
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lunch
3:00pm - 4:00pm Heart Rate Training
4:30pm - 5:30pm Run video taping, drills and speed training walk trough
6:30pm Dinner and run video viewing

Sunday
6:00am 7:00am Breakfast
7:00am - 8:00am Lecture. Race nutrition and hydration.
9:00am - 10:30am Long run, 1 to 1:30 hour run
11:00am - 12:00pm Lunch and lecture. Training with a Power Meter.
1:00pm - 3:00pm Recovery swim and video stroke analysis
4:00pm Dinner, Open Q&A, wrap up, group photo.


Registration

Camp host	Rally Sport Health and Fitness Club is our camp host they are located at 2727 29th St. Boulder CO 80301 Phone(303)449-4800
To get there get to 28th Street, between Valmont and Mapleton. Turn East on Bluff Street and you will see the entrance to the club one block east on your left side.