INFORMATION EVENING

FTC are hosting an information evening on Thursday 24 November 2011 at the Prinz of Vienna Bakery/Patisserie  at 6a Davis Road, Attadale. We invite you to come along for coffee and cake at the award winning cafe and listen to Suresh Sivacolundhu from The Foot Clinic present on foot care for runners and Raf Baugh from The Running Centre present on lactate threshold testing. This is a great opportunity to hear from experts in their fields and ask any questions you may have.

Suresh Sivacolundhu

Suresh is the Director and Senior Podiatrist at The Foot Clinic. His expertise lies in the field of Sports Medicine and lower limb biomechanics. He has had extensive experience with treatment of elite athletes from the Australian Institute of Sport, the Academy of Sport, the Australian Wallabies, Canberra Raiders and the Canberra Kookaburras. He was also selected for the SOCOG Medical Team to provide podiatry services at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, the 2000 ITU World Triathlon Championships and the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Suresh has also provided podiatry foot care and footwear education for The Athlete’s Foot, members of the Australian Federal Police, Australia Post and ALCOA. He is currently an active member and previously a director of Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) and has also presented at national conferences for the Australasian Association of Podiatric Sports Medicine (AAPSM).

Raf Baugh 

Raf is a coach, physiotherapist, duathlete* and motivator. He brings 14 years of personal running experience, 11 years of physiotherapy and 3 years of coaching to the Front Runner team. Over the past three years of coaching he has accumulated a PB rate of over 95% with athletes of all ability levels, due to an intimate understanding of sport and careful attention to individual goals, musculoskeletal system and lifestyle. He is equally adept working with beginners or elite athletes and works by the motto of “dream-believe-succeed”.

* Raf is Western Australia’s highest ever ranked male ITU athlete, having finished #3 in the world for the sport of duathlon in 2009. He has won over 17 professional races internationally and is a Western Australian Athletics Champion in track, road and cross country running events www.rafaelbaugh.com

Lactate Threshold Testing

What is it?

• A scientific test to determine exactly where your anaerobic (lactate) threshold lies.

• Your lactate threshold is the point at which your body produces lactic acid faster than it can remove it. As a result of the increased lactic acid concentration, you cannot hold this intensity for long periods and the body is forced to slow down.

Why is it useful?

• Training at, or slightly above your threshold causes your body to adapt to this intensity, meaning that you will be able to perform better at this intensity and therefore increase your “threshold”.

• This will directly translate to improving your performance in events lasting longer than ~5 mins.

 

Please keep this night free and come to Prinz of Vienna at 6.30pm (for a 7pm start).

Everyone who comes will receive a voucher to The Running Centre!

Please RSVP to admin@ftc.org.au by 22 November

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