Sally Edwards is an author and one of the pioneers in the Olympic

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 sport of triathlon

Triathlon

A triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...

. She resides in Sacramento

Sacramento, California

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, California

California

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. Edwards has helped to organize both the national and international governing body for the sport. She also wrote the first book on triathlons, and 6 subsequent books on the sport.

Career

Edwards is also an entrepreneur, who has founded six companies including: Fleet Feet Sports (a chain of franchise retail sports stores); Yuba Snowshoes (sports-performance snowshoe

Snowshoe

A snowshoe is footwear for walking over the snow. Snowshoes work by distributing the weight of the person over a larger area so that the person's foot does not sink completely into the snow, a quality called "flotation"....

s); and most recently, Heart Zones USA an international fitness and health training and education company.

She is also a professional motivational speaker

Motivational speaker

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, who has advised thousands on how to find and live the fitness

Physical fitness

Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness , and specific fitness...

 lifestyle.

Sports career

Sally Edwards has completed over 150 races including more than 75 Danskin Triathlon

Danskin Triathlon

The Danskin Triathlon is a series of women-only triathlon races, which is claimed by its organisers to be the largest and longest-running multi sport sprint-distance series in the world. It is structured for both first time and veteran women triathletes. It generally uses the Sprint Triathlon...

s and 16 Ironman Triathlon

Ironman Triathlon

An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation consisting of a swim, a bike and a marathon run, raced in that order and without a break...

s. She is a former holder of the master's world record in the Ironman, and the national spokesperson for the Danskin series of women-only sprint triathlons. Her background in multi-sport competition is extensive. She has won the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, the 100 mile Iditashoe Snowshoe Race, Race Across America

Race Across America

The Race Across America, or RAAM, is an ultra marathon bicycle race across the United States that started in 1982 as the Great American Bike Race....

 Relay division, and numerous marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

s. She has also participated in adventure races around the world.

In 1999, Sally Edwards was selected to be a member of the Triathlon Hall of Fame.

Edwards is currently represented by United Agents

Books

• Triathlon (1982), Fleet Feet Press
• Triathlon: A Triple Fitness Sport: The first complete guide to challenge you to a new total fitness (1982)
• The Woman Runner's Training Diary (1984)
• The Triathlon Training and Racing Book (1985)
• The Equilibrium Plan: Balancing Diet and Exercise for Lifetime Fitness (1987)
• Triathlons for Kids (1992)
• The Heart Rate Monitor Book (1992)
• Heart Rate Monitor Book (1993)
• Heart Zone Training: Exercise Smart, Stay Fit, and Live Longer (1996) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558505520
• Smart Heart: High Performance Heart Zone Training (1997)
• Caterpillars to Butterflies by Triathletes (from the Danskin Women's Triathlon Series) (1997). Coauthored by Maggie Sullivan
• The Heart Rate Monitor Guidebook to Heart Zone Training (1999)
• The Heart Rate Monitor Log (2000)
• The Triathlon Log (2000)
• The Complete Book of Triathlons (2001)
• The Heart Rate Monitor Workbook for Indoor Cyclists (2001) co authored by Sally Reed http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1884737935
• The Heart Rate Monitor Book for Outdoor and Indoor Cyclists: A Heart Zone Training Program (2002) co authored by Sally Reed http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931382042
• Triathlons for Women: Training Plans, Equipment, Nutrition (2002)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1931382840

External links

• Danskin Triathlon
• Trek Women's Triathlon Sally Edwards is their spokesperson.
• Fleet feet Sports
• About Heartzones