70.3

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WILD 70.3 Triathlon Team
This WILD team is for women who have some triathlon or endurance athletic experience and who are ready for the challenge of an iron distance race. This team will train for a designated 70.3 or Full Ironman triathlon. This team is a virtual team that will meet by phone conference twice a month with a coach and a diabetes educator/sports dietitian. A limited number of spots on the team are open to type 3 supporters. Type 3 supporters are the female friends and loved ones of a woman who is on the team and living with diabetes or pre-diabetes.
This team will train from March to September 2009. There is room on this team for women who want to do a relay, duathlon or aquabike.

Coach: Yoli Casas
Diabetes Educator & Sports Dietitian: Marcey Robinson
What you get by joining the 70.3 and 140.6 Triathlon Team:

7 months of every other week phone conference calls with the coach, the diabetes educator and the team. (Official kickoff call is March 7.)
Expert athletic coaching to prepare you to complete a 70.3 and/or 140.6 Iron distance triathlon.
Expert and highly personalized education in diabetes management and education about how to manage diabetes while participating in endurance athletics.
On-line training and tracking program.
Email support from the coaches.
Membership in a community of likeminded women who get what you are going through and who will support you as you make your way to your fitness goals.
Support (in person) on the designated race weekend in Branson, MO from the coach and diabetes educator/dietician.
A Team WILD hat or visor.
Be eligible to attend the WILD Training Camp in Colorado, June 2 – 6, 2010.

Requirements for enrollment:

Have type 1, type 2, or pre-diabetes.
If a type 3 supporter, must be “sponsored” by a woman on the team who meets the above criteria.
Have participated in at least some sort of organized endurance event or race and have some experience with all three sports of triathlon: swim, bike, run.
Be able to attend at least 90% of all the scheduled team conference/webinar calls. These calls will be for one hour on Sundays and the call times are 5PM EST, 4PM CST, 3PM MST, 2PM PST.

Call dates are:

Official kickoff March 7
Mar. 21-Apr 11-Apr. 25-May 2-May 16-June 13-June 27-July 18-July 25-Aug. 1-Aug. 22-Aug. 29-Sept. 12-Sept. 26

Have written consent from your medical doctor.
Be willing to blog at least 1 time per month during the season on the 70.3/140.6 Team WILD public blog and be willing to publicly tell your story so as to inspire other women to get active.
While on the team, be willing to electronically document your nutrition, blood sugars, medications and exercise on 3 key workout days per month and submit this to the staff for review. (This is not to give individual diabetes management guidance, but to get a collective sense of where the education needs to go.)
Ability to attend the designated race weekend.

Cost to participate: $375.00. In addition, women need to plan to purchase a team uniform, all necessary gear, race registration and travel expenses to the race.

The race the 70.3 team will do is the Branson 70.3 Ironman on September 19, 2010.
The website is: http://www.ironmanbranson.com/index.php Once you are registered for Team WILD, we will give you the race registration discount code.