Multisport_Report : Message: Kenny Dunaway's Multisport Report

Jan. 29, 2004

"What counts most in creating a successful team is not how compatible its players are, but how they deal with incompatability."

from Sports Illustrated

Jan. 1, 2005 (Saturday)

Club South Runners Resolution Run, 8 a.m. Baton Rouge City Park

Jan. 15, 2005 (Saturday)

XL Games, Gretna, LA

Jan. 16, 2005 (Sunday)

97th Jackson Day 9km (5.6 miles), 8:30 am, New Orleans

Jan. 22, 2005 (Saturday)
Chinese New Year Race 5km, 8:30 am, LaFreniere Park, Metairie

Jan. 30, 2005 (Sunday)
The Wall - Louisiana Distance Running Championship, 8 a.m., New Orleans.

Jan. 30, 2005 (Sunday)
Frost Yer Fanny Duathlon, Shreveport, Contact 318/798-1241, www.sportspectrumusa.com

Well, it's the last posting of the year, at least I think it is. Lots of
holiday runs and rides are going on and there's some intense work going on
at pools across the state, too. It seems like so many so early are preparing
for the 2005 multisport season. That's a good sign, underscored by the
number of fitness events already on the calendar.

I hear that the Baton Rouge Tri folks have a group ride set for Jan. 1 at 9 a.m. in the Felicianas. Check brtri.com for details. There will be another group riding about 9 a.m. from the Farr Horse Park on River Road after the Club South Runners Resolution Run.

The Club South Runners New Year's Day Resolution Run starts at 8 a.m. at Baton Rouge City Park (near the gym on Perkins Road).This run is meant to be a social run for anyone wishing to come out on the morning of New Years Day. Start the New Year off right and be able to say you have run every day in 2005. There will be no fee, no clock, a few amenities, other than what you might want to bring.You can run whatever distance you convince the group to run, or split the group and chose you own distance and pace. Come out and make good on one of your New Year�s resolutions.

Team Earthquakers on the Northshore are having a group ride Thursday at 8 a.m. It will begin at the Mandeville Lakefront and include two birthday celebrations. The group hopes to do a 50 mile ride. Reports are that there will be champagne flowing during and after the ride not to mention a some false teeth.

Cyclist Randy Legeai of New Orleans reports that there is a rough, working copy of the 2005 competivite cycling event calendar as it currently stands on the LaMBRA website at http://lambra.bicycleracing.com/calendar/road_05_pre.htm.

Step by step I get closer to finalizing the printed edition of the 2005 Louisiana Multisport Report. Thanks so much to Ben Hawn of New Iberia who has worked to put together the multisport rankings. Thanks again to Brett Faulk of Lafayette who has steadily kept up with rankings for Louisiana's competitive cyclists. I sure wish I had rankings of competitive runners across the state and competitive swimmers across the state. Maybe one day someone will step up and compile that data for all to see and use as a target for training goals. I'm actually waiting for several advertisers' materials, so if you're one of them, I need your stuff ASAP.

New Orleans New Year's Eve Group Workout Set
From Pamela Danner <pamelaida@...; pamela-ida@...>
We had a great turnout on Christmas Eve for our very cold morning run. After
the run everyone quickly retreated to the Tennis Center to warm up and enjoy
refreshments. We will once again be running this Friday morning for our last
run of 2004. We meet at 8 a.m. in the parking lot at City Park in New
Orleans and begin running shortly thereafter. Bring your favorite beverage
and snack.

We will be there no matter what the temperature, rain or shine. If it is
extremely cold and raining we may just run laps inside the Tennis Center.
For more information, call 504/486-5372 or 504/669-6025 .

XL Games Set for Gretna on Jan. 15

From Chi DiMaggio <ChiDiMaggio@...>

I am producing a benefit event in New Orleans on the West Bank Saturday, Jan. 15th at Gretna City Park called the 2005XL Games. The XL message is for our students and community to strive to excel in sports, school, work and life.

The 2005 XL Games is a multi sport entertainment festival including tournaments, exhibitions, and clincs in volleyball, tennis, football, bocce ball, cabbage balll, t-ball, basketball, soccer, roller hockey, rugby, and lacrosse. We'd love all other sports from Horse Shoes, martial arts, wrestling, and athletics exhibitions. We have the space to showcase all sports.

I am creating some interactive games for kids and adults of all ages. Also I'll
feature the XL-Xtreme Games which will need a team of 10 participants.
Proceeds go to renovating the park and to helping to build the new Science
and Technology Building on the WestBank.

The volleyball 6's tournament (adult's fee is $20/player and tennis doubles
(adult team $40/ team 3.5 & 4.0 Divisions) will have a student and an adult division if your
team would like to participate. All students must pay $10 tand adults pay $20 to participate to participate in each activity (tournament or clinic). This includes an insurance coverage cost per head.

There are fun games, great prizes, great food and music entertainment. There are also adult clinics from local English Turn teaching pros in golf and tennis. The clinics will run $20/ adult. If you could post a flyer at work, I'd appreciate it.

Mayor Ronnie Harris of Gretna does the opening ceremonies along with local
professional and semi-pro athletes in the community. Friends and collegues are pitching in to help by:
--Participating in the games
--Volunteering their time, equipment, and expertise
--Donating promotional items for prizes or raffles for the WISH LIST attached
--Signing up their personal teams or the teams they coach

--Volunteering their ref skills and tournment director skills

--Creative Input developing interactive games

--Running/administrating the separate tournaments

--Assembling teams

--Any other creative way of raising money that day

--Spreading the word, putting up posters at your work & fitness facilities around the GNO

--Including our event in your advertising efforts

--Do a story on the event

--Come perform a scene from your upcoming performance

--Assemble your friends to come to the festival

--Coordinate your sports group to do a clinic or exhibition or tournament

Thursday night, Jan. 13th, there is check- in for all captains, participants, volunteers, talent and sponsors at the H&R Block Office on 1801 Manhattan Blvd. in Gretna in the Target Shopping mall from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. You will receive your production and tournament schedule, and be allowed to make any last chance changes or inclusions. Participants under the age of 18 must have their participant release form signed by their parent or guardian in order to paly in the 2005 XL Games. Immediately following across the parking lots is a party at Chili's for all involved.

This new Science and Technology Center on the WestBank enriches the lives of our community for generations to come.

Also I welcome anyone who works with a non-profit group to come bring your table and be a part of our event gratis. Many of you help other non-profit groups and this is a chance to promote your outside benefit efforts. All of Jefferson Parish Public Schools have been invited to compete. We welcome all students to participate in the GNO area.

I thank you in advance for your support, and welcome your creative ideas, input, and questions. Let's start the year off with a healthy positive impact on our community. I wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year,

504/669-5375

Injured Baton Rouge Cyclist Recovering, Enjoying Holiday
From Gary McCrary [garymccrary@...]
I am now home recovering from my cycling accident that nearly killed me. I will know in
four more weeks whether I will need more surgery or can start the process of trying to walk again.

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers, and your precious
gift of blood. The doctors did not give me much of a chance of
survival, but I believe your prayers pulled me through. I feel God
blessed me with another chance with life and I will always be
thankful to you all.

I plan to personally thank each of you when I am able to regain the
coordination in my hand. Thanks again and I wish everyone a Happy New Year.

Bo Bo Anderson Slowly But Surely Recovering Use of Leg

From Bo Bo Anderson bobo_the@...
Amigos del Bobo:
My prayers were answered, I was out of the hospital
for Christmas: day 70, 10 weeks. The nurses wept
shamelessly when I left, but I could swear I heard
champagne corks popping.

The medical team assigned to my case are keeping me on a top-secret wound goop for two
weeks, then it's BACK in the horsepital (for a week or so) for hopefully the last skin graft.

The gripping true-story epic tale will be finished by
then, and hopefully some sense will be made of all
this. One of my doctors says I'll never run again,
one says maybe but I might need tendon reconstruction
surgery, and one says he'll see me in Hawaii next
year. You can guess who I choose to believe.

I thank all of you who visited me, called me, fed me,
and most of all those of you who prayed for me. Legs
like mine are not healed by earthly means.
My new cell phone number for those who didn't get it is (don't
give it out to reporters): 504/452-2856.

For those who missed the action photos, the address is
below from my cousin Royce's website. He has both the
original recipe and new extra crispy shots (yes he did
kidnap me between hyperbaric dives one day and we went
to the D-Day Museum). FYI: "Billy" is my family's version of "Bobo". Billie
is Billie, my on again/off again girlfriend who has
taken care of me above and beyond the call of duty,
but is about sick up and fed with hospitals, my leg
and me.

Power of Fellowship for Multisporters Presents Ordinary Folks with Extraordinary Accomplishments

From Salty Galvis of Team Earthquake on the Northshore < lgalvis@... >
(This is in response to the commardarie multisporters find in fitness clubs/groups/circles, which I wrote about a week ago.)
You need to come spend some time with us Team Earthquake folks. Since the team was formed nearly five years ago, it's been one big, BIG family, much more than just a collection of folks who train together and see each other at races. We party together to celebrate many occasions (Friday evenings at The Spokesman Professional Bicycle Works and the occasional group dinner together afterwards, holidays, significant birthdays, Guster concerts -- Go Donnie!, marriage engagements, weddings, new home purchases, home renovations, Ironman Hawaii qualifying, etc.); we travel together and stay together for out-of-town races; we lend a hand and a heart and give freely of our time and money to support each other when someone is injured or sick; we constantly offer moral support, advice, and encouragement to each other before, during and after training sessions and races; we sometimes fight and make up later; we sometimes date within the club and break up later; and our annual end of the year/ awards banquet is way beyond fun (you need to attend one year)! We know what each of us looks like in swimsuits, tri-suits, running togs, cycling shorts and jerseys, street clothes, dress clothes, party clothes, very few clothes, and even (in a few too many cases) no clothes (Go Lenny!). While we don't quite all live together, it's close to that situation: We play together, laugh together, cry together, party together (sometimes too hard), and pray together (not often enough).

Sorry if it seems as though I'm blowing Team Earthquake's horn, but when I saw your comment quoted last week, I couldn't help but think about how blessed we TE members are to have the team and each other, and this a time of year when I can't help but think of all that we TE members have to be grateful for, especially each other. We're certainly not perfect (far from it, of course), but "we are FAM-A-LEE!" Come spend a Friday evening with us at The Spokesman some time and get a feel for what I'm talking about.

I also want to thank you for your kindness and industry in publishing the weekly Multisport Report and the annual multisport rankings, and in supporting the efforts of many others in the various Louisiana fitness communities.

May God continue to bless you, and I pray that you and your family have a very merry and blessed Christmas!
985/727-2345; 504/576-2050

Lance Armstrong Chosen AP Male Athlete of the Year
Even by his lofty standards, Lance Armstrong's return to the mountaintop in
2004 was pretty special.

The question now facing Armstrong and his legion of fans is whether he'll
return to challenge the Pyrenees and the French Alps again in 2005.
Already recognized as one of the truly inspiring athletes of his generation,
Armstrong took his cycling legacy a step further when he won a
record-breaking sixth consecutive Tour de France in July.

And for his accomplishment, he was honored Monday as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the third straight year. Armstrong joined Michael Jordan (1991-93) as the only athletes selected by sports writers and broadcasters three straight times since the honor was first awarded in 1931.

"For me it was a special year," Armstrong said. "It's always nice to win the
Tour, but this year was special simply because I broke the record and made
history." Armstrong received 51 first-place votes and 312 total points. Indianapolis
Colts quarterback Peyton Manning was second with 17 first-place votes and
156 points.

The voting reflected Armstrong's return to dominating form in an event where
he separated himself so far from the pack there was little question of the
outcome. In 2003, Armstrong struggled to win his fifth Tour de France, capturing
cycling's premier event and one of the world's most grueling sporting events
by a mere 61 seconds.

It was also the year he got divorced, and he acknowledged that he struggled to balance the pressures of his personal and professional lives. Yet the 33-year-old Texan stormed back in 2004 with arguably his best U.S. Postal Service team and his best individual performance on the bike. He won five individual stages and a sixth with a team time trial in France.

"I certainly feel like I recovered my true strengths. I haven't felt as in control of a tour as this year," Armstrong said. While other top riders and rivals such as Tyler Hamilton and Jan Ullrich withered during the punishing race, Armstrong powered on.

Germany's Andreas Kloden, the Tour runner-up, got a close up view of the American's strength in one of the hardest Alpine stages when Armstrong sailed past him to win a sprint finish in the last few meters. "No gifts this year," Armstrong said after the stage.

But as dominant as Armstrong was in France, he has yet to commit to going
for a seventh title next year. He promises to race again in the Tour de
France before he retires, but won't say if it will be next year or 2006.

Armstrong says he's ready to pursue other challenges in racing. He has dedicated most of his cycling life to the Tour, leaving little room for such Classic races as the Spanish Vuelta, the Paris-Roubaix or Fleche Wallone, which he won in 1996 shortly before being diagnosed with testicular cancer.

But he also knows that it's the Tour de France his American fans want to see him win. "I could win the Tour of Flanders and I wouldn't win AP Athlete of the Year," he said. Armstrong and his team -- which has a new sponsor with the Discovery
Channel -- will release their schedule in January. Armstrong won't say if he'll race the Tour de France until May.

Whatever his choice, it will be all or nothing. It won't be a case of him riding to help someone else on his team win. "If I'm going to ride, I'm riding to win. I'm not going to suffer for three weeks not to win," he said. "I've gotten too used to standing on the Champs
Elysees at the end."

Armstrong had a big year off the bike as well. His personal life spilled over onto the celebrity pages when his relationship with rocker Sheryl Crow turned them into a star couple. And his Lance Armstrong Foundation, which is dedicated to cancer
survivorship programs, got a monumental boost with the popularity of its promotional "Livestrong" yellow wristbands.

Boosted by his most recent Tour victory, the foundation sold nearly 30
million of the wristbands this year, spawning a fashion trend that even made
its mark on national politics. Democratic nominee John Kerry sported one on
the campaign trail, and President George W. Bush has one, too.

"I plan on wearing mine for a long, long time," Armstrong said, noting that he will always think of himself as a cancer survivor. "We never set out to create a fashion statement, we simply set out to make a statement and symbol for cancer survivors."

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That's it from here. Bless God America.

Kenny Dunaway

Isaiah 40:31, John 3:16

2325 Weymouth Drive Suite D

Baton Rouge, LA 70809

225/296-7490

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