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How does a goof-around athlete qualify for the Olympics?  By being an excellent Sports Massage Therapist!

Kathy has been working with swimmers since 1999, when one Orange County Swimmer decided to use her for weekly sports massage while he was training for Sydney in 2000.  Through him, she got involved with USA Swimming the opportunities started rolling in.  She’s been to Shanghai for World Championships, and done massage at the Duel in the Pool meet, where the US goes head-to-head against Australia.  And Three Times attended Olympic Trials.

This year, the US National Swim Meet, and Pan Pacific Games are both coming to California!  Not just anywhere in California, but Irvine!  Kathy has been invited to volunteer as National Team Massage Therapist for both meets, which are between August 3 and August 23.   Swimmers know, Massage helps with Recovery, which keeps them strong throughout their intense training and week-long events.

Kathy is well-matched by another therapist at Dynamic Touch.  Katcha Minot, whose resume is just as long as Kathy’s,  is on her way at the end of August to the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center.  It’s run very much like a college campus for athletes in training.  They have dorms, and training facilities for many different sports.  Katcha will be working in the Athletic Training Center doing massage for athletes that reside there, and are visiting for training camps.  It’s a very exciting atmosphere, and a huge privilege. 

Congrats to them both for their contributions to the US athletes!  Next step, Massage Team for London 2010!!

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Chuck Fry LOVES his bike!  From his first 120 mile ride in 8th grade between San Diego and Covina,  to more elaborate trips in the US and Europe.  Last year he went to the Italian Alps (the Dolomites) to repeat some of the famed climbs of the Giro de Italia bike race.   During this trip, he rode 70+ miles each day, 500 miles total, ascending over 50,000 feet!!   He said the highlight of the trip “Has to be the Stelvio, a classic Giro climb.  It’s 12 miles of scenic mountain roads, with an 8% grade, and 48 switchback turns.”

Chuck uses massage regularly to recover and remove toxins after his workouts.  Sometimes his neck, back, hips and knees get sore. “Massage helps keep me fit to allow the pleasure of injury-free riding.”

He may ride hard, but Chuck listens carefully to his body’s signals.  Months before his trip, he felt minor pressure in his chest when he was pedaling hard, so he went to his physician to check it out.  It turned out he had a blockage in an artery of his heart, and required immediate angioplasty to install a stent to unblock it.  But don’t worry, this hasn’t slowed him down at all.  He still rides aggressively, takes his doctor’s advice, and encourages everyone to get regular checkups and listen to their body, too. He’s an inspiration to cyclists everywhere!

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Ellen, a regular at Dynamic Touch, is an inspiration to us all.  This is a picture of her showing off her hard-won wooden bowl trophy for the 2009 Waikiki Rough Water Swim.  After 20-plus years of trying, she finally won her age group in this 2.4 mile ocean swim event.   Not only that, but this season Ellen also earned the Bronze Medal in the Senior Olympics for the 100 meter Freestyle (a VERY competitive event!).  She answers to the title “Professor”, since she has a PhD in Chinese History, and teaches Social Sciences at PCC.  When I told her I think she is a star, she just smiled and said “I am not a star — but I do show up and go for it!  I never think that winning is everything.  Trying your best is everything.  I love doing what I do.”  Ellen gets Sports Therapy Massages regularly, says that massage helps her stay loose, and works out the soreness and kinks, and “it just feels good”!

Millie Tanner is a young lady with a Mission!  She’s doing 90 days of blogging to raise awareness about Cycling and Team Duke for Cancer Awareness.  See her blog at http://milliegoat.wordpress.com .  She’s been Rocking her age group (10-14  years old) at the local and National level races for the last couple of years.  She’s so good at climbing hills on her bike, they call her Millie-Goat!

Millie has goals of becoming a National Champion, this year she competed in all three categories of State Championships where she got the Silver Medal for the Road Race and Crit. At Nationals, she also competed in all three categories, and earned a Bronze in the Time Trial.  She loves the sport of cycling and would like to see more women and junior women in the sport. Hopefully, she can inspire more juniors to participate in cycling.   She dedicated her season to PJ, a boy her age with Cancer, and she is raising awareness through Team Duke for him and for cancer.