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Training and Racing Biathlons
This book should go back in print!I have read many triathlon and duathlon books and magizines but this book tops them all.I strongly recommend this book for any duathlete. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, published by American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3235 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Effects of autogenic and imagery training on the shooting performance in Biathlon.(Psychology)
Author: A. Groslambert
Publication: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Volume: 74Issue: 3Page: 337(5)

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This digital document is an article from Bass & Walleye Boats, published by Ehlert Publishing Group on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1936 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Electronic biathlon: top walleye pros Scott and Marty Glorvigen reveal their tournament-winning prefish strategies using sonar and GPS.(Sport fishing boats)
Author: Allan Tarvid
Publication: Bass & Walleye Boats (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Ehlert Publishing Group
Volume: 12Issue: 5Page: 48(4)

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The most challenging sport of all
Classical Olympic biathlon is cross-country (X-C) sking combined with target shooting. X-C skiers are the world's most physically-fit athletes--but X-C by itself is so highly aerobic, it is closed to all but the most gifted participants. Enter biathlon:

Instead of rewarding only brute physical output, biathlon requires the athlete to switch from a huge physical effort to the the delicate precision of .22-cal target shooting. All in the 15 seconds it takes to ski up to the target range, whip the rifle carried on his back around to the firing position, and shoot five shoots at a baseball-sized target 100 meters away.

Elite biathletes find their pulse drops from 175 bpm to 155 in those few seconds; then they shoot inbetween heartbeats.

The trick is to NOT ski at 100% effort, because that will make accurate shooting impossible. But do you ski at 99%, or 98%? That is the equation each biathlete must solve for himself. Watching a meet at which a super-star skier who has the the fastest time loses to a slower skier who is shooting better provides thrilling monents in the sporting scene.

This work describes how to modify the Olympic version for suburban practicality. We uses low-powered air rifles to permit the sport to be carried out nearly anywhere. In the absence of snow, my young charges run instead of ski. The competition is so intense, and so attractive to high school kids, that when I started a biathlon squad in Concord, Ma, within 2 weeks, all the top X-C high school runners and skiers joined up. One of these guys--who had never shot a rifle before, qualified for the Olympic trials! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Child Life, published by Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc. on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 638 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Looking Forward to 2002.(Brief Article)
Publication: Child Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, Inc.
Volume: 80Issue: 6Page: 14

Article Type: Brief Article

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