I am proud to announce the addition of two new sponsors to the emerging Elite Austin Racing Team, TEAMRogue Elite.  I would like to personally thank Advanced Rehabilitation and The University of Texas FIT Lab for their contribution and support in this endeavor.  Great companies like these are enabling highly talented athletes to continue to fine-tune their abilities in their quest to represent the United States of America in World Championships, Olympic Games, and other International Competitions.

Now a little about each of these companies:

Advanced Rehabilitation - Voted best place to go for a sports injury in 2008, Advanced Rehabilitation works with not only a majority of the elite athletes in Austin, but also with the everyday persons suffering from any number of medical injuries or complications.  The staff is great to work with and I enjoy conversing with the other patrons while we all work towards fixing, rehabbing, or simply bettering ourselves in one way or another.  I have already begun to see Dr. Z at the Anderson (North) Location and can not speak enough of him or my time there.  Dr. Z truly understands the human body and its form, but always takes the time to thoroughly listen to you and what you are feeling in order to get a better understanding of other incidents that may have lead up to the possibly compounded problem at hand.  I always leave Advanced Rehabilitation feeling better than I arrived and am excited to continue going on a weekly basis for maintenance work even when I am healthy and feeling good!

The University of Texas FIT Lab - One of the most important pieces of information that an endurance athlete can know, is how his/her body is reacting to the training he/she is putting it through (VO2 Max Levels, Lactate Threshold Levels, Body Fat Percentages etc.).  The UT FIT Lab has committed to providing the testing that will enable us to know this data throughout the year as we progress through different training cycles.  I am heading in tomorrow to get a baseline read done and will return again for another round of testing in a couple months ... and then again a couple months after that.  I am grateful to be working with this fantastic group of individuals who are all incredibly informed and excited about the work they do.  Not only do they dedicate their lives to the study of the data they get off of athletes like myself, Leo Manzano, Joe Thorne, and Lance Armstrong (all athletes who have been tested here), but they are also very involved in the promotion of fitness throughout the University and Austin.  They sponsor a large number of fitness initiatives and lead training groups around the UT campus for faculty and staff.  This is a major part of what the Elite Austin Training Group hopes to do throughout the city of Austin and This is only another reason why we are proud to be associated with the University of Texas FIT Lab.

THANK YOU!