The following is being forwarded from the national collegiate cycling
manager. Please read on. If you have any questions please let me
know and I will send them on to him.

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Dear Collegiate Cyclists,

Day-to-day I see contracts for USA Cycling's sponsors, suppliers, and
benefit providers; but rarely are the contracts signed with the
collegiate student-athletes in mind. Well that has just changed, as
I've lobbied with you strictly in mind!

I'm excited to announce the first (of hopefully many) Collegiate
Benefit Providers that are tailored specifically for your needs.
TrainingPeaks has been a long-time partner of USA Cycling and they
have now stepped up to plate with an amazing offer EXCLUSIVELY for
Collegiate members. Also, keep your eyes open in the coming weeks for
another amazing offer from Specialized

You can read the full press release on the collegiate home page and
below you will find a special invitation directly from TrainingPeaks……

Take care and have a great season of riding and racing,

Daniel Matheny
National Collegiate & High School Cycling Manager



Dear USA Cycling Collegiate Members and Coaches,

TrainingPeaks wishes to extend a warm welcome to all cyclists who are
planning to attend the 2008 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National
Championships in Fort Collins, CO. Not only is TrainingPeaks a
Colorado-based company, but two of the founders, Gear Fisher and Dirk
Friel, are Colorado State University cycling team alumni.

In addition to welcoming you to Colorado, TrainingPeaks would like to
extend a FREE TEAM ACCOUNT to all eligible* collegiate teams to manage
all training programs and training data for free until nationals in
May 2008. This is the same training software used by professionals
such as Cadel Evans and the entire USA Cycling National Development
Team and their coaches to monitor, analyze and plan their seasons for
peak performance.

Both coaches' and athletes' benefits include:
- Time-saving consolidation of training data.
- Download from various devices (Power Tap, Polar, Garmin,
SRM, Ergomo, etc) using Device Agent
- Or manual upload to quickly transfer and archive race and
training data for analysis.
- Distribute web-based workouts to your entire team within minutes.
- Monitor nutrition and plan meals
- Track daily metrics including sleep, stress, pulse, weight, etc.
- In short, TrainingPeaks provides a software platform to
increase your coaching and training efficiency and depth.

To take advantage of this Free TrainingPeaks offer create your team
account today on the following page:
https://www.trainingpeaks.com/coach/coach_signup.asp

For more on TrainingPeaks services for coaches and teams please visit:
- http://www.trainingpeaks.com/coach/
-
http://wiki.peaksware.com/wiki/index.php/Athlete_Data_Management_for_Coaches

*Eligible teams are those in good standing with USA Cycling.
*Only 1 free team account per college.
*Participating teams will be profiled on TrainingPeaks.com

--
Hanns Hartman

Western Collegiate Cycling - Conference Director
hhartman@...