Columbia Multisport Club Repeat as National Champions

Columbia Multisport showed up in full force to defend their Club Nationals title.

With three races over two days, 283 athletes representing 12 clubs, hailing from Anchorage, Alaska to New York City, proved that teamwork does pay off.

The club championships brought newbies, veterans, sprinters and long course athletes to compete together and earn points towards an overall score. The host of this year’s championship, Columbia Multisport, won the event and welcomed every club to join them in celebrating the excitement of club racing.

Several athletes raced twice over the weekend, first taking part in the Long Course USAT National Championship on Saturday then gearing up again for either the short or intermediate distance race on Sunday.

Notable Doubles:
1st 30-34 F Halfmax and Octomax – Kristin Moore (Big Shark Racing)
1st 55-59 M Halfmax and Octomax – Jim Fuller (Greeley Tri Club)
1st 35-39 M Halfmax and Octomax – Ted Zederik (Columbia Multisport)
1st 30-34 M Halfmax and Quartermax – Adam Zucco (Multisport Madness)

With $10,000 cash on the line, each club brought their “A Game” to all races with Full Throttle Endurance (NYC) taking six first place awards, three second place awards and three third place awards, all with a total of 15 club members.

The overall club, regardless of division, won $5,000. Each first place club in division one through five took home $1,000 cash to help support their club programs and membership.

The announcement of the 2008 Club National Championship will be made later this fall.

2007 Club Champions

Division I
1 Columbia Multisport Club (Columbia, MO) 520
2 Tri Fury (Andover, MA) 10

Division II
1 St. Louis Tri Club (St. Louis, MO) 151
2 Alaska Tri Club (Anchorage, AK) 14
3 Lonestar Multisport Club (The Woodlands, TX) 9

Division III
1 Multisport Madness (St. Charles, IN) 61

Division IV
1 Full Throttle Endurance (New York City, NY) 73
2 Greeley Triathlon Club (Greeley, CO) 64
3 Big Shark Racing (St. Louis, MO) 41
4 Ozarks Multisport Club (Springfield, MO) 30

Division V
1 Defined Fitness Training (Denver, CO) 22
2 Los Locos Tri Club (Memphis, TN) 19

Article take from: USA Triathlon News Wire Post

Columbia Triathletes Win Another National Title

The Columbia Multisport Club defended its title at USA Triathlon club
championships over the weekend in Innsbrook. This marks the fourth time
in five years that CMC has won the national title.

This time, the club brought nearly 200 competitors to the event.

"Honestly, we knew we were going to win just because of the close
proximity of the championships to Columbia," CMC President Mark Livesay
said. "But the location allowed so many members of our club to
participate, and that was really sweet."

Columbia won the title with 520 points, followed by the St. Louis
Tri-Club with 151 points. There were 14 clubs and 800 athletes
participating.

CMC competitors swept first, second and third places in eight different
age group categories during the two-day event. Columbian Ted Zderic
won the overall title."

Welcome to the NEW CMC Blog!

Welcome to our new CMC Blog. This is our attempt to keep the content of the CMC website more dynamic and up-to-date. Board Members and Committee Chairpersons will have the ability to post current news, member profiles and all kinds of CMC related information. I (Mark) will be posting the State of CMC to the Blog from this point forward.

Be sure to leave comments on the articles. This will help us to adjust what we are posting to the site.

We have added sections for Triathlon related videos on You Tube and we also have a news feed for stories related to multi-sport pursuits.

ANOTHER NEW FEATURE: We now have a way to post photos to the CMC gallery. You can check that out on main page under the gallery tab. There are a couple options. There is a link provided on that tab where you can download instructions on how to get photos in the gallery. Overtime we may make more adjustments here.

Hope you all enjoy the new updates to the CMC site.

Bicyclist May Fight Back - Motorist Contact Letter

Picture the perfect ride on a gorgeous Missouri morning spoiled by a frighteningly close encounter with a motorist who is angry just to see a bicyclist on the road. In the past, many of us were frustrated by our inability to take self-protective action or to incite others to protect us unless we were severely damaged by the encounter.

In an effort to make our state a safer place to ride a bicycle, the Missouri Bicycle Federation (MoBikeFed) has established a program in which the details of the incident are reported to us and a letter will be sent to the offending motorist.

Details of the incident should include: motorist license tag number and description of the incident (time, place, description of vehicle & driver, what happened).

This program is open to all MoBikeFed members, including members of affiliated clubs.

Bicyclists may send the details of the incident to MBF Motorist Contact Program, director@mobikefed.org, PO Box 104871, Jefferson City, MO 65110-4871.