Omaira Serrano Rosa, was born in Puerto Rico 1972. She attends primary schools in her hometown of Isabela. Former basketball player of the first female basketball team named Las Pollitas de Isabela. She also formed part of the first "Liga Atletica Policiaca" basketball team. Between the ages of 10 and 24 she participated in various sports representing Isabela, Aguadilla, Aguada, Quebradillas, Camuy, Bayamon, Caparra, Ponce, San German and national’s team. These are the sports practiced by her while in Puerto Rico: basketball, baseball, volleyball, track and field,walking, kajukembo, judo, weight lifting, ping pong, soccer,and handball. In 1996, she graduated from the Interamerican University of San German (POLY) and earned her Officer Commission in the Army. One of her stations was South Korea (second Infantry Division) where she performed as a Training Officer for ammunitions. Teaching soldiers how to fire and qualify with different military weapons. While in Korea, she played basketball for the Army team and further her martial arts study. She also coached male basketball and softball teams. After separating from the army, because medical conditions, she move to Texas where she was the manager for a Public Housing Gymnasium and sports programs. She organized and promoted the sports and Girls Scout troop for young female while in El Paso. Her volunteer work helps the creation of an insurance program for low income kids, geriatric leissure programs, and animal shelters fundraising. Omaira, played Basketball, Martial Arts, Outdoor and Indoor Soccer with the Pasoans, until injured herself again and moved to Florida. Now days she have a supervisory job at the Veterans Hospital and she also is a Holistic Massage Therapist with education on Reiki, Hot stones, lympathic drainage, sports massage, pregnancy massage, geriatric massage, thai massage, asian modalities, neuromuscular, swedish, reflexology, aromatherapy.
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Park City Nightlife
Contrary to what you might have heard about Deer Valley, there is an active nightlife. Actually, the Park City area is the place in Utah with the highest number of alcoholic beverage businesses per capita. If you are going to drink here you should know a couple things about Utah's liquor laws. A number of businesses that serve alcohol are �private clubs.� Visitors can acquire an cheap membership that is good for 3 weeks. This will allow admission and consumption of alcohol during your time there. So, technicalities aside, there are plenty of places where you can find a good drink, see live entertainment, and dance; if that is on your vacation agenda.
To locate the nicest assortment of clubs and pubs, travel to the heart of Park City�s historic district. If you wish to enjoy live-entertainment check out the Spur Bar and Grill on Main Street. There is no smoking in here. Despite the fact that it's cowboy themed, it's comfortable rather than rustic inside. The Spur�s sister location is at 350 S. Main. Their Jupiter Cosmopolitan was chosen, in 2005, to be Park City's signature drink. One more place offering music (jazz, funk, or acoustic) is Mother Urban�s Ratskeller. This place is also well-known for their burritos and a wide-selection of bottled beers.
During the 2002 Winter Olympics, many famous people flocked to Harry O�s. This is a hip dance club with live bands or a DJ. �Club dress� is required and lines are to be expected. Also be prepared for a heftier membership fee at this popular hangout. One more spot to dance is Cisero�s. This place is a packed dance club on one floor and a top-quality dining establishment on the other.
Other popular bars are O�Shuck�s and No Name Saloon. O�Shuck�s is named for the oysters they serve by the dozen. This place is little and brings a crowd�lots of locals. Tuesday nights offer $3 giant beers and hamburgers. No Name Saloon is next door offering live music and an enjoyable atmosphere. More places you can go to eat and drink are Bandit�s Bar and Grill and Wasatch Brewing Company. Bandit�s is a casual place offering barbecue and steak fries. Wasatch Brewing Company provides casual dining and local brews as well.
You won�t have to travel far to find a trendy, nighttime hangout in this area. Whether you are interested in a traditional pub, a more romantic �date� bar, or a boisterous dance club; you have more than enough options. Regardless of the time of year, you'll find a drinking establishment to fit your mood and budget.
Blake Provo writes for Blooming Resort Rentals which provides Deer Valley lodging options for area visitors. See also the Park City Ski Lounge website they sponsor.
Arthur Lydiard, the World's Greatest Middle Distance Coach, on How to Train Effectively
Copyright � 2007 Ed Bagley
As a lifelong runner, master's and senior competitor in track and field, I have read hundreds of stories on training techniques.
These same hundreds of stories generally dealt with addressing specific aspects of training.
It was not until I bought and read "Running, The Lydiard Way" that training philosophy became more important than individual workouts to achieve specific results.
Lydiard was New Zealand's top marathon runner before his runners burst on the scene in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games.
Murray Halberg won the 5000 meters and became a sub-four-minute miler who went on to set a string of world records. Peter Snell won the 800 meters. Snell would win both the 800 and 1500 meters at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and John Davies would earn the Bronze medal in the 1500.
When Lydiard went to Finland to change the fortunes of its running program, the result was that Lasse Viren won the 5000 and 10,000 meter double at both the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games.
It was the influence of Lydiard that led New Zealand to create the first organized jogging group in the world.
Bill Bowerman, the University of Oregon's legendary coach, went to New Zealand to see what Lydiard was doing and returned to create the jogging craze in the United States.
Arthur Lydiard's basic theory was that long, even-paced running at a strong speed increases strength and endurance, even when it is continued close to the point of collapse; it is beneficial, not harmful, to regular competition.
It is hardly a stretch to suggest that Lydiard's influence has made him the greatest coach ever. No less of a coach that Bill Bowerman said in his book, "Coaching Track and Field", that "there is no better distance coach in the world (than Arthur Lydiard)."
After reading and studying Lydiard's book (written with Garth Gilmour), I condensed the following training philosophy of Lydiard's system and continue to study and use it today:
Arthur Lydiard on Running:
Aerobic exercise is 19 times more economical than anaerobic exercise.
A daily program of sustained running is essential to achieving correct respiratory and circulatory development. The longer the periods of running, the better the results of the sustained effort will be.
You should understand that it is the speed of the running that stops you, not the distance. Running that breaks the even passage of time and distance is anaerobic, not aerobic, and it must be avoided.
All this running must be steady and even, at a pace that leaves you tired at the end, but knowing you could have run faster if you had wanted to. In other words, you should be pleasantly tired.
Your aim is to find your best aerobic speed over the various courses. If, during any of these runs, you find you have to ease back a little to recover, you will know that you have moved into the anaerobic phase. This is neither economical nor desirable.
Continual creation of large oxygen debts by doing anaerobic training accumulates:
1) lactic acid and other wastes
2) upsets the nutritive system
3) reduces the benefits of vitamins
4) reduces nourishment from food
5) disrupts enzyme functions
6) slows recovery
7) makes further training difficult
8) upsets the nervous system
9) makes you disinterested and irritable
10) induces insomnia and low spirits
11) endangers your general health
12) makes you vulnerable to injuries and illness.
My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.
Running is without question the best exercise for runners, and provided you watch the degree of effort, you can not really do too much of it.
Once you are moving freely over the shorter runs, you should move into one or two longer runs each week to maintain the improvement and build confidence in yourself.
The anaerobic stage of your preparation should only be tackled after you have developed your aerobic capacity and maximum steady state to the highest possible levels. Four weeks of hard anaerobic training is usually enough.
Do not let age deter anyone from tackling long mileages, as long as the individual is happy about it and exercises carefully.
Running, I repeat, is the best exercise for runners, and the more you do in a balanced aerobic-anaerobic ratio according to this overall system, the better you will be.
If you do not understand the difference between aerobic and anaerobic running and other terms used here, you could buy Lydiard's book and learn the difference.
Lydiard's work is a textbook not only on his philosophy of running but also on the physiology of exercise.
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