Lose Weight Quickly with Matt Fitzgerald’s Racing Weight Quick Start Guide

Boulder, CO, USA — January 5, 2011 — Three out of four endurance athletes are concerned about their body weight, but fad diets can be dangerous for athletes. Now runners, cyclists, and triathletes can kick off their 2011 season with a rapid weight-loss training program from best-selling author and coach Matt Fitzgerald. Racing Weight Quick Start Guide: A 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Endurance Athletes is the first fast-paced weight-loss training plan designed for endurance athletes. The Quick Start Guide is now available in bookstores, endurance sports shops, and online.

Racing Weight Quick Start Guide applies all the principles of the best-selling book Racing Weight in a detailed set of weight-loss training plans that are designed to help athletes shed weight quickly. Athletes will devote 4 to 8 weeks to starting a weight loss of 5, 10, or 20+ pounds.

Readers will drop pounds quickly as they follow a schedule of high-intensity workouts and strength training as well as a menu of calorie-restricted, high-protein meals and snacks. Low-volume and high-volume plans make it possible for cyclists, runners, and triathletes with a wide range of experience to maintain their training levels. These athletes will replace fat with muscle while keeping their appetites in check.

Once they have hit their quick start weight-loss goals, readers can continue to lose unwanted weight using the proven strategies of the Racing Weight program. Athletes will zero in on their racing weight through improved diet quality, balanced macronutrient levels, proper timing of meals and snacks, appetite management, and training for lean body composition.

The Racing Weight Quick Start Guide will accelerate every endurance athlete’s season for leaner and faster racing.

Racing Weight Quick Start Guide: A 4-Week Weight-Loss Plan for Endurance Athletes by Matt Fitzgerald
Paperback with charts and illustrations throughout
6" x 9", 288 pp., $18.95, 978-1-934030-72-1

Matt Fitzgerald is the author of numerous books on running, triathlon, nutrition, and weight loss. His most recent books are RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel, Racing Weight, Brain Training for Runners, and The Runner’s Diary. He has been a contributor to Men’s Fitness, Men’s Health, Outside, Runner’s World, Bicycling, Running Times, Women’s Running, and other sports and fitness publications. Fitzgerald is a featured coach on TrainingPeaks.com and Active.com. He is a certified sports nutritionist (CISSN) licensed by the International Society of Sports Nutrition. He lives and trains in San Diego, California.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, swimming, nutrition and diet, yoga, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book-publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., which publishes VeloNews, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Competitor magazines and produces the Rock ‘N’ Roll marathon and half-marathon series, TriRock triathlon series, and the Muddy Buddy adventure race series.

Media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events:
Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com

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Natural Running Explains How to Run the Barefoot Way—While Wearing Shoes

Boulder, CO, USA — December 7, 2010 — Natural Running is the middle ground runners have been looking for, explaining how runners can enjoy running as nature intended while protecting themselves from unnatural surfaces. By learning to run the barefoot way—with shoes—runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners. Backed by studies at MIT and Harvard, running form and injury expert Danny Abshire presents the natural running technique, form drills, and an 8-week transition plan that will put runners on the path to faster, more efficient, and healthier running. Natural Running is now available in bookstores, running and triathlon shops, and online.

In Natural Running, Abshire explains how modern running shoes distort the efficient running technique that humans evolved over thousands of years. He reviews the history of running shoes and how changing technologies have influenced running form and the incidence of overuse injuries. Abshire makes the case for the barefoot running style but warns that barefoot running comes with its own dangers. By learning the natural running technique, runners can enjoy both worlds—comfortable feet, knees, and legs and an efficient running form that reduces impact and injuries.

Natural Running teaches runners to think about injuries as symptoms of poor running form. Abshire specifies the overuse injuries that are most commonly associated with particular body alignment problems, foot types, and form flaws. Runners will learn how to analyze and identify their own characteristics so they can start down the path to natural running.

Abshire explains the natural running technique, describing the posture, arm carriage, cadence, and land-lever-lift foot positioning that mimic the barefoot running style. Runners transition from heel striking to a midfoot or forefoot strike, which studies show is how the body evolved to run. So that runners can relearn this more natural running gait, Abshire offers an 8-week transition plan, complete with a tool kit of strength and form drills that build and maintain the musculature required for natural running.

Natural Running is the newest way to run and also the oldest. By discovering how they were meant to run, runners will become more efficient, stronger, and healthier runners.

“Abshire is one of the leading voices in the current natural running revolution.” — Danny Dreyer, author of ChiRunning

“Danny brings a simple, sensible approach to transforming your running. His knowledge of running form and biomechanics can help all runners become more efficient.” — Mark Allen, six-time Ironman® World Champion, and co-author of Fit Soul, Fit Body: 9 Keys to a Healthier, Happier You

Natural Running: The Simple Path to Stronger, Healthier Running by Danny Abshire with Brian Metzler
Paperback, 6" x 9", 200 pp. | $18.95, 978-1-934030-65-3

Danny Abshire is a passionate lifelong runner and cofounder of Newton Running, where he has spent 10 years designing and refining Newton Running shoes. As a longtime running form coach and injury expert, he has worked closely with thousands of athletes, from beginners to Olympic elites, helping them improve their running form and technique. Brian Metzler is Senior Editor for Running Times and has written about endurance sports for Runner’s World, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, and Outside.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, nutrition and diet, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book-publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., which publishes Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, and Competitor magazines and produces the Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon and Half-Marathon series.

Media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events:
Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com

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Lennard Zinn to Launch New Book at Boulder Cycle Sport

Boulder, CO, USA — November 30, 2010 — Boulder-based cycling writer Lennard Zinn will launch the fifth edition of his mountain bike maintenance and repair book next week at the Boulder Cycle Sport South Broadway location. Zinn is one of the world’s most trusted experts on bicycles, and his book Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling book on mountain bike care and repair. Zinn has long ties to the Boulder cycling scene through his bike frame-building company Zinn Cycles and his writing for Boulder-based cycling magazine VeloNews. Please come meet Lennard for this book signing! Copies of the new edition of Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance will be available at the event.

Tuesday, December 7, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Lennard Zinn Book Signing
Boulder Cycle Sport - South
629 S. Broadway, Ste K.
Boulder, CO 80304
(303) 444-2453 x2  | bouldercyclesport.com

Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling mountain bike maintenance book for good reason: it covers every procedure to repair, maintain, tune, or upgrade a mountain bike in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format. Weighing in at a whopping 464 pages with 600 illustrations, this new fifth edition offers total coverage of all the newest mountain bike tech without neglecting tried-and-true components. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 5th Ed. is now available in bookstores, bike shops, and online. Readers can preview the book’s table of contents and its entire index at velopress.com/zinn.

With Zinn’s book, anyone can properly maintain, tune, fix, or upgrade a mountain bike to ensure years of trouble-free riding. Newcomers and experienced mechanics alike will benefit from complete instructions for basic and advanced repairs, exploded views of how parts go together, time-saving tips, and smart recommendations from Lennard Zinn, America’s leading expert on bikes.

Lennard Zinn was a member of the U.S. national racing team and has been riding and fixing bikes for nearly 50 years. A professional frame builder and bike designer, Lennard is also the technical writer for VeloNews magazine and Singletrack.com and hosts the popular Q&A column on VeloNews.com. His other books include Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, Zinn & the Art of Triathlon Bikes, Zinn’s Cycling Primer, The Mountain Bike Performance Handbook, and The Mountain Bike Owner’s Manual. He lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

Boulder Cycle Sport was founded in 2005 by two University of Colorado graduates in order to provide a community-based bike shop for all cyclists. The shop's goal is to provide the highest level of customer service and to offer cycling products they truly believe in. Whether you are a first time rider, recreational enthusiast or an elite-level racer, Boulder Cycle Sport strives to be the foremost resource for all your cycling needs.

For media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events, please contact:
Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com

Distributors/retailers please find ordering information at velopress.com/shops or contact:
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Lennard Zinn Updates Bestselling Mountain Bike Maintenance Book

Boulder, CO, USA — November 9, 2010 — Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance is the world’s best-selling book on mountain bike care and repair for good reason: it covers every procedure to repair, maintain, tune, or upgrade a mountain bike in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format. Weighing in at a whopping 464 pages with 600 illustrations, this new fifth edition offers total coverage of all the newest mountain bike tech without neglecting tried-and-true components. Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 5th Ed. is now available in bookstores, bike shops, and online. Readers can preview the book’s table of contents and its entire index at VeloPress.com/Zinn.

With Zinn’s book, anyone can properly maintain, tune, fix, or upgrade a mountain bike to ensure years of trouble-free riding. Newcomers and experienced mechanics alike will benefit from complete instructions for basic and advanced repairs, exploded views of how parts go together, time-saving tips, and smart recommendations from Lennard Zinn, America’s leading expert on bikes.

“Understanding the mechanics of your bike, knowing how to adjust it to suit your riding style, and knowing how to keep it running smoothly are essential to your mountain biking performance. Nobody teaches these skills better than the famous artiste ‘Leonardo da Zinnski.’” — Ned Overend, World and National Mountain Bike Champion

Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 5th Ed. offers total mountain bike coverage:

• The basics: simple instructions for regular maintenance, how to choose and fit a bike, full coverage of cross-country, hardtail, full suspension, downhill, and hybrid bikes old and new
• Advanced repair: integrated-spindle cranks, clipless pedals, suspension forks, internal headsets, hydraulic brakes, hub and cassette overhaul, and much more
• New tech: the newest components including BB30, BB92, PF24 cranksets, inertial valve suspension forks, air sleeve rear shocks
• Problem-solving: for frozen parts, stripped threads, missing pieces
• Wheels: wheelbuilding and general maintenance and repair; tubeless tires, sealant systems, flat repair, tire sizing and choice
• Complete reference: glossary of bike terms, specifications for bolt tightening, gear chart for 26- and 29-inch wheels, and a comprehensive troubleshooting index

Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance, 5th Ed.
by Lennard Zinn, Illustrated by Todd Telander
Paperback. 2-color interior. Over 600 illustrations.
8 ½" x 11", 464 pp., $24.95, 978-1-934030-59-2

Lennard Zinn was a member of the U.S. national racing team and has been riding and fixing bikes for nearly 50 years. A professional frame builder and bike designer, Lennard is also the technical writer for VeloNews magazine and Singletrack.com and hosts the popular Q&A column on VeloNews.com. His other books include Zinn & the Art of Road Bike Maintenance, Zinn & the Art of Triathlon Bikes, Zinn’s Cycling Primer, The Mountain Bike Performance Handbook, and The Mountain Bike Owner’s Manual. He lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

VeloPress is an endurance sports and fitness publisher with books on cycling, triathlon, running, nutrition and diet, and the histories and personalities of our sports. VeloPress is the book-publishing division of Competitor Group, Inc., publisher of VeloNews magazine, VeloNews.com, and Singletrack.com.

For media review copies, excerpts, author interviews and events, please contact:
Dave Trendler, Marketing and Publicity Manager, (303) 245-2138, dtrendler@competitorgroup.com

Distributors/retailers please find ordering information at velopress.com/shops or contact:
Jen Soulé, Sales Manager, (800) 811-4210 x2169, wholesale@competitorgroup.com

2011 VeloNews, IMBA, and Inside Triathlon Calendars Are Now Available

Boulder, CO, USA — November 9, 2010 — VeloPress is pleased to announce the publication of 2011 calendars from VeloNews, the International Mountain Bicycling Association, and Inside Triathlon. The editors of VeloNews and Inside Triathlon and staff of IMBA select the most beautiful and inspiring photographs in road cycling, cyclocross, mountain biking, and triathlon to create stylish wall calendars for 2011. These calendars make wonderful gifts for any cyclist or triathlete. The 2011 calendars are now available at bike shops, REI, and from online retailers like VeloGear.com and TriSports.com.

VeloNews 2011 Road Racing Calendar
from the editors of VeloNews magazine
12" x 12", $14.95, 978-1-934030-69-1

International Mountain Bicycling Association 2011 Calendar
A portion of proceeds benefit IMBA.
12" x 12", $14.95, 978-1-934030-71-4

Inside Triathlon 2011 Calendar
from the editors of Inside Triathlon magazine
12" x 12", $14.95, 978-1-934030-70-7

Retailers, please order through AlpenBooks, American Cycling, The Hawley Company, or IPS. For ordering information, please visit velopress.com/shops or contact:
Jen Soulé, Sales Manager, (800) 811-4210 x2169, wholesale@competitorgroup.com

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