Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients include recreational and professional road racers, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes. They are located around the globe from England to the Caribbean, from Alaska to Florida, and from Boston to San Diego. Joe has a masters degree in exercise science and is a certified USA Cycling coach.
His company, Performance Associates Corp., provides fitness services to a wide variety of clients via fax, US mail, and telephone.
Joe writes monthly training columns for VeloNews, Inside Triathlon, and Colorado Racing magazines, and contributes features to magazines such as Runner's World, Masters Sports, and Women's Sports & Fitness. He has written a fitness column for the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper since 1981.
He conducts workshops around the country on training and racing for endurance athletes and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry.
An avid CompuTrainer user since 1991, Joe is an outstanding age-group competitor. He is a Colorado State Triathlon Champion in his age group, a Rocky Mountain region and Southwest region duathlon age-group champion, and has been named to an All-American team every year since 1991. A member of US Triathlon Federation's national teams in 1993 and 1994, he is a top contender in world-class events. He also competes in road-running races and USCF time trials.
From his home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado, Joe enjoys mountain biking in the foothills with wife, Joyce, lake swimming with friends, and hiking and cross-country skiing on mountain trails with son, Dirk - a professional cyclist.
If you have training questions or suggestions for future revisions of this manual including your own CompuTrainer-specific workouts, or to schedule a clinic for your club or group, call Joe at (970)226-4967, fax (970)204-4221, or e-mail jfriel@ultrafit.com. Please send all written responses and inquiries to:
Performance Associates Corp.
919 Sailors Reef
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Thanks to Libby James for making this manual readable, to Gale Bernhard for her technical suggestions, to Joyce Friel for format concepts, and to Chuck Wurster of RacerMate for making it possible.
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