18th annual Breath of Life Ventura Triathlon/Relay will be held on Sunday, June 26, 2016 at Ventura Harbor, Ventura, CA. All proceeds from this charity event will go towards the improvement of treatment facility at local hospitals supporting children diagnosed with Primary Immunodeficiency (PI). We encourage athletes to perform their own fundraising in support of this cause.
Post Race Party: After the race plan on hanging out for the party and enjoy the hosted Barbecue, Beer Garden (21 and older participants) Food Fair and music. This party is our way of thanking everyone for helping the Dina LaVigna Breath of Life Fund.
• Fast, flat and scenic course
• Timing chips for all racers
• Post Race BBQ
• Beer Garden for all participants ages 21 and over
• USAT sanctioned race
• USAT Southwest Region Talent ID Series event
Distances:
Sprint/Relay (Swim 750m, Bike 20.4km, Run 5km)
International/Relay (Swim 1.5km, Bike 40km, Run 10km)
Awards:
Commemorative awards will be given to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers in each age group.
Medals for all finishers.
Redefine core.
Elevate your game.
Stay injury free.
Two prominent local legends, Peter Park and Mike Swan discuss how core strength and flexibility can elevate your game, help you get fast, go long and keep you injury free.
About our speakers:
Peter Park
(bio and photo from platinumfitnesssummerland.com)
Peter is the Founder of the Platinum brand and co-owner of Platinum Fitness Summerland. He brings a past rich with his own professional athletic achievements to his 23 years of experience training elite athletes, big-screen celebrities, top touring musicians, and common citizens that are serious about their fitness, mobility, and longevity. Peter’s training style teaches people about proprioception, which means "one's own" sense of their relative position in space as compared to the strength of effort being employed in their movement.
- 4 time All-State Volleyball player in high school
- College volleyball at University of Hawaii.
- Graduated BS degree from UCLA
- Numerous top 10 finishes in Ironman Triathlons
- 3x Worlds Toughest Triathlon winner
- 3x Catalina 50 mile ultra run winner
- 3x Nine Trails Ultra Winner
- Worked with numerous athletes in wide variety of sports
- Author of Foundation: Redefine your core, conquer back pain, and move with confidence
- Husband and father of 2
Mike Swan
An active ultra-runner, Mike spends time on the trails apart from his calling as owner and practicing physical therapist
(bio and photo from eliterehab.com)
at Elite Performance and Rehabilitation and gracious sponsor of the club. Podiums are quite commonplace for our April Speaker. With gifted athleticism, grit, and persistence, our speaker has been honored:
- the title of All American, 5 times,
- qualified and raced Hawaii's Ironman World Championship, a club record of 7 times,
- still holds the age-group record (1994) for long course (4:23:07) and (1990) for the Olympic (1:33:17) at Wildflower.
- All the while, training and rehabilitating athletes from finisher to Kona qualifier even before Elite's inception in 2002.
The ride will be the Santa Barbara Long Course bike course, out over Toro to Gubanador Canyon and back over Toro to East Beach. If you want to ride shorter or longer feel free to join us for part of the ride. The ride will re-group in Summerland , at the turn on 192 in Carpenteria and at the bottom of Gubanador on the way out.
On the way back it will be ride your own pace with someone sweeping at the back. The emphasis is on getting a good ride and getting to ride with friends! This is an open ride, you don't need to be a member to ride with us. Renaud will be leading the ride with Tammy and Jon Goodman for support.
Families and men support ladies racing a Sprint Tri with friends from Rincon Tri Club!
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Registration for the 2016 Nautica Malibu Triathlon presented by Equinox will open on March 1 2016 at 8am.
International Distance:
1.5k Swim / 40k Bike / 10k Run
Saturday, September 17th, 2016
Classic Distance:
0.5 mile Swim /18 mile Bike / 4 Mile Run
Sunday, September 18th, 2016
Sprint and Olympic Distances available
Cancelled due to extremely low water levels.
On and Off Road Sprint and Olympic Triathlons