Overview MarkAllenOnline co-founder and coach Luis Vargas brings brings his Triathlon camp to the east coast for the first time. Join him at the Somerset Hills YMCA in Basking Ridge, New Jersey June 13-15, 2008. Coach Vargas has hosted camps in Colorado, Florida and Kansas over the last few years but this is his first trip to the East Coast. This camp is a perfect opportunity to inmerse yourself into a long weekend of all triathlon. Coach Vargas will share his personal experiences as an althete and a coach. The camp is a perfect blend of learning with training at your own pace. Cervelo will be at the camp and will bring their fleet of demo bikes. Campers would be able to do the Saturday morning ride on a Cervelo bike. Cervelo will also do a presentation on bike technology to campers. 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  The camp dates are as follows: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 13-15, 2008 (10 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. Some will take place during meals as well as on the field. Training sessions will be done on the most popular training routes. For dinner we will meet at some of the best local restaurants. The camp will not be a mega training weekend but there will be enough training for everyone. You can very well train at your own pace. 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
8:00am - 9:00am Registration and breakfast
9:00am - 11:00am Bike positioning
11:30am - 12:30pm Run workout
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Lecture Heart rate training
2:45pm - 3:45pm Lecture long sessions and bricks
4:00pm - 5:30pm Swim workout
6:00pm - 7:00pm Dinner

Saturday
6:00am - 9:30am Bike ride
9:30am - 10:30am Breakfast
10:30am - 11:30am Race nutrition and hydration
11:30am - 12:30pm Strength training walk trough
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:30pm Swim Video Taping
4:30pm - 5:30pm Run video taping, drills and speed training walk trough
6:30pm Dinner swim and run video viewing

Sunday
6:00am 7:30am Long run
7:30am - 8:00am Light Breakfast
8:15am - 9:15am Training Do's and Don'ts 9:30am - 10:30am Training with a Power Meter
11:00am - Noon Lunch
1:00pm - 3:00pm Recovery swim and video stroke analysis
4:00pm Dinner, Open Q&A, wrap up, group photo.


Registration

Camp host	The Somerset Hills YMCA is our camp host they are located at 140 Mount Airy Rd Basking Ridge NJ 07920 Phone(908)766-7898
To get there from Newark International Airport exit the Airport and take ramp onto I-78 W. Travel 23.6 miles on I-78 and take exit 33 for CR-535 toward Martinsville/Bernardsville. Travel .2 miles and turn right at CR-525/Liberty Corner Rd/Martinsville Rd. Follow CR-525 for 3.1 miles and turn right at CR-525/Mt Airy Rd. Travel .5 miles to the YMCA.