TimSeaman.com is a site that will introduce you to racewalking, as well as keep you informed about the athletic career of Tim Seaman. If you would like even more information, please check out www.TimSeaman.com just by clinking on the photo on the right!

Click on PHOTO ALBUMS for some photos of the Flagstaff altitude training camp, as well as pictures from the double American Record weekend in Hildesheim, Germany.

Click on Tim's Calendar to the left for information on other races that Tim is expected to compete in. (To be updated soon --- )

I will write more about this later, but the above link is for Kjersti's last race ever at the IAAF Race Walk Challenge Final in Russia.

This is an awesome new site out of Argentina. Carlos, the author of the blog, has the most updated results information out of any of the websites that I have found.

While it is in Spanish, there is a link on the righe side of the page to translate it into english....but times are times, and they are universal in english or spanish.  So check it out! 

Maria Michta won the US Club Championships today at Randalls Island in New York City.  Maria walked her way to the third fastest time of her career and her fastest time in two years.  She won the race in a time of 23:56.

Great job Maria!! 

Women 5000 Meter Race Walk
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Meet Records: # 22:54.73  2005        Joanne Dow, New England Race Walkers    
    Name                    Year Team                    Finals  Points
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  1 Michta, Maria                Walk Usa              23:56.22   10  
  2 Bresnahan, Erin              Walk Usa              27:22.08    8  
  3 Daniel, Maryanne             CT Racewalke          28:17.69    6  
  4 Josephs, Molly               Walk Usa              29:42.70    5  
  5 Tillman, Crosby              Taconic Road          29:56.96    4  
  6 Geer, Panseluta              Shore Athlet          32:10.24    3  
  7 Paul, Maria                  Shore Athlet          33:37.79    2  

Klaus Thiedmann won the US National Masters 5,000m championship today in amazing style - in a PHOTO FINISH!!!  It appears that from the results below that Klaus was 2nd over all, but there seems to be some descrepancy with the results.  Irreguardless, Klaus won his age group today and his next race will be the World Masters Championships in Finland at the end of July.  Best of luck Klaus!

 M30-59 5000 Meter Race Walk
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    Name                     Age Team                    Finals
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  1 Medina, Alberto          M48 unattached            27:13.24 
  2 Thiedmann, Klaus         M54 Chicago Walk          27:13.60 
  3 Aunan, Tommy             M50 High Altitud          27:13.64 
  4 Smith, Andrew            M59 Pegasus A.C.          27:35.40 
  5 Clements, Damon          M52 unattached            27:42.27 
  6 De Witt, Mike            M58 Parkside Ath          28:35.70 
  7 McClung, Jeffrey         M53 unattached            31:11.10 
  8 Smith, Don               M52 unattached            31:23.79 
  9 Phillips, Lynn           M59 unattached            32:17.75 
10 Kale, Barton             M53 unattached            32:49.62

We have quite a bit of news to announce.

First, we have created a new web site www.racewalkclinic.com. It contains the information for Tim Seaman and Jeff Salvage’s Clinics of Excellence.

In addition, there is a free primer, on excellent race walking technique. This primer is being printed with the help of NARI (North American Race Walk Institute) and will be available for free to help promote race walking. We are printing 20,000 11 x 17 full color brochures that contain the same information as we have provided in our technique primer at www.racewalkclinic.com.

More information about how to get the flyer will be made available as soon as we receive them from the printer (approximately one week from now). In addition, Tim and myself are very proud to announce the publication of our new book, “Race Walk Clinic – in a Book.”

America’s premier team of clinicians Jeff Salvage and Tim Seaman’s Race Walk Clinic — in a Book beautifully illustrates textbook techniques while it catalogs typical mistakes race walkers make that can rob them of a legal race and speed. It explains why these problems exist and prescribes critical solutions to correct them. If you are ready to improve your race walking style and step up to the next level, then pick up Race Walk Clinic - in a Book today. Our approach in Race Walk Clinic — in a Book is to pick up where other training materials leave off. We start by grounding our discussion with a review of correct race walking technique, but do not focus on the many aspects of technique that you can do incorrectly. We then divide race walking technique problems into broad categories, starting with issues of legality and then separating technique issues into categories such as hip, leg, arm, and posture problems. For each category we illustrate the problem with photographs of either elite race walkers or (for beginner problems) staged images. We then offer remediation in two forms: exercises, drills, and stretches to improve your style, and mental cues to guide your focus while race walking. Within the educational material presented, we’ve interspersed “Tales from the Track,” a unique collection of unique stories in which great race walkers from the U.S. and around the world retell some of their most memorable experiences.

The book is available for pre-order at www.racewalkclinic.com and www.racewalk.com.

It should ship within two weeks.

Finally, we have added a new clinic to our schedule, July 25th and 26th in Orlando Florida. Please check www.racewalkclinic.com for details. Also, please note, that our Albany clinic, in conjunction with the 10K Nationals, still have quite a bit of space available. We people have signed up for the race to date, let’s all have a good showing for Don who is an adamant race walk supporter.

Jeff Salvage and Tim Seaman
www.racewalk.com and www.racewalkclinic.com

Today at the NAIA National Championships in Missouri, Chris Tegtmeier placed third to not only walk his way to All-American status, but he obtained his best time ever in the event in the process.  In the women's race, Katie Malinowski, a junior at Cornerstone University, placed 6th to earn her All-American status as well.  Katie attended Tim and Jeff's Clinic of Excellence last weekend in Chicago.  Congratulations to both Chris and Katie.

Here are the official results:

Event 12 Men 5000 Meter Race Walk
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NAIA Champs.: N 20:07.38 1997 Al Heppner, Wisconsin- Parkside
2008 Winner: * 21:06.16 5/23/2008 Inaki Gomez, British Columbia
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Inaki Gomez JR British Columbia 20:41.11* 10
2 Evan Dunfee FR British Columbia 20:41.15* 8
3 Chris Tegtmeier JR Concordia (Neb.) 21:59.98 6
4 Josh Wiseman SO Cedarville 22:02.47 5
5 Creighton Connolly JR British Columbia 22:48.92 4
6 Peter Muldoon JR Central Methodist 23:48.34 3
7 Roberto Vergara FR Lindsey Wilson 24:04.97 2
8 Mike Mannozzi JR Notre Dame (Ohio) 24:11.72 1
9 Ricardo Vergara FR Lindsey Wilson 24:58.92
10 Mike Meekhof FR Notre Dame (Ohio) 25:12.46
11 Seth Campbell SR Cedarville 25:15.50
12 Zach Adams SO Houghton 25:16.52
13 Nathan Dreher SR Concordia (Neb.) 25:17.67
14 Kyle Hively JR Rio Grande 25:31.78
15 Tom Stolee JR Concordia (Neb.) 25:34.08
16 Shawn Magee SR Concordia (Ore.) 26:23.00
17 Kris Shear SO Cornerstone 26:29.58
18 Grant Bacon SO Cedarville 26:43.50
19 David Lindemann SO Lindenwood 26:56.83
20 Chris Dehning SR Concordia (Neb.) 27:11.93
21 Daniel Lew SR Westmont 27:51.59
22 Kyle Shaffer FR Malone 28:51.54
-- Evan Crowdus FR Lindsey Wilson DNF
-- Lucas Warner FR Berea DQ bent knee
-- Paul Ikeda SO Cedarville DQ bent knee

Event 36 Women 3000 Meter Race Walk
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NAIA Champs.: N 12:39.67 2000 Sarah Stevenson, Olivet Nazarene,
2008 Winner: * 14:12.12 5/23/2008 Megan Huzzey, British Columbia
Name Year School Finals Points
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Finals
1 Nicola Evangelista SO British Columbia 14:54.51 10
2 Tina Peters JR Goshen 15:16.74 8
3 Tessa Horst SR Goshen 15:37.70 6
4 Amanda Johnson JR Lindsey Wilson 15:45.20 5
5 Katie Burnett SO William Penn 15:45.23 4
6 Katie Malinowski JR Cornerstone 16:10.18 3
7 Megan Furnish SO Lindsey Wilson 16:37.34 2
8 Maria Mudd SR Walsh 16:39.81 1
9 Bev Larssen SO British Columbia 16:59.00
10 Jessica Ching FR Lindenwood 17:27.65
11 Caitlin Ambrose SR Berea 18:32.63
12 Stephanie Cowell FR Baker 18:37.77
13 Rachel Kettner SO Concordia (Neb.) 18:55.64
-- Emily Hansen JR Concordia (Neb.) DQ bent knee
-- Alexis Gutterman SO Lindenwood DQ bent knee

15 year old Tyler Sorensen from Lafayette, California broke his first ever US Jr. Record  on May 17, 2009 at Fairmount Park in Riverside, CA.  It was Sorensen's first ever Jr. Record and it was the third US Jr. Record broke this season.  Sorenson, part of Team Tim, broke the old record of 1:13:37, by 40 seconds. 

Next up for Tyler will be a week long training camp in San Diego with Tim and Trevor, sponsored by USA Track and Field.  After that it will be the USATF Jr. National Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Here are the offical results:

Male Open

Tyler Sorensen 15 1:12:57 Lafayette CA Pleasanton Heat
40-44 Art Morrow 44 1:48:51 Palm Desert CA So Cal Track Club
45-49 James Olson 46 1:42:27 San Diego CA Unattached
James Kurtzman 47 DQ Coto de Caza CA So Cal Track Club
50-54 Shipitsyn Anatoliy 54 1:16:34 Los Angeles CA Unattached
Mark Green 53 1:22:27 Reno NV Unattached
Pedro Santoni 51 1:28:09 Redlands CA So Cal Walkers
Alex Kazaryan 54 1:33:44 Los Angeles CA Unattached
Al Cazas 51 1:46:10 Loma Linda CA Inland Empire Racewalkers
55-59 Andrew Smith 59 1:27:11 Whittier NC Unattached
Amado Castro 58 1:55:34 Mandawyong PI Unattached
Jack Cassidy 59 DQ San Diego CA Unattached
60-64 Norm Frable 63 1:29:29 Ivins UT Unattached
Rick Campbell 63 1:31:34 Orange CA Easy Striders Walking Club
65-69 Wayne Wurzburger 67 1:42:12 Winnetka CA So Cal Walkers
John Backlund 68 1:44:43 Redmond OR Raceswalkers Northwest
Patrick Bivona 68 1:48:58 La Verne CA Inland Empire Racewalkers
Bernie Finch 69 1:55:08 Pepin WI Florida Athletic Club
Paul Johnson 71 1:35:08 Fort Smith AR Florida Athletic Club
Ronald Walters 70 1:41:38 Nipomo CA Sierra Racewalkers
Carl Acosta 75 1:41:15 N. Hollywood CA So Cal Track Club
Bill Moremen 81 1:51:51 Claremont CA So Cal Walkers
Bob Mimm 84 2:14:26 Willingboro NJ Shore AC

Gender Race First Last Name Age Race City State Club
Div. Name Time
15K
Female 50-54 Vicki Pritchard 50 1:40:24 Cave Creek AZ Unattached
Susan Mears 54 1:43:33 Reno NV Pacific Racewalkers

Marianne Martino 58 1:33:36 Littleton CO HART
Mary Baglin 62 1:40:28 Reno NV Pacific Racewalkers
Diane Brandt 60 1:40:39 Surprise AZ Unattached
Kathy Frable 63 1:46:25 Ivins UT Racewalkers Northwest
Darlene Backlund 62 1:50:31 Redmond OR Racewalkers Northwest
Louise Walters 69 1:38:59 Nipomo CA Sierra Racewalkers
Kathleen Balser 66 1:40:37 Phoenix AZ Unattached
Jolene Steigerwalt 65 1:41:20 San Diego CA So Cal Track Club
Janet Robinson 68 DNF La Mirada CA Easy Striders Walking Club

On Sunday April 5th, Tim, Rachel and Trevor traveled up to Mt. Sac to compete in their annual race walk event.  Since both Tim and Trevor had raced the previous weekend, it was decided that they would do a 5km together so that Trevor could make an assualt or attempt at the US Jr. 5km record held by Ben Shorey.  Ben's US Jr. Record time was 20:57.  Not an easy time to hit for a 16 year old, but after his 44:26 performance the week before, Coach Tim though that Trevor was ready.  The duo started off the first km at 4:12, slightly off pace, but enough to keep it within striking distance.  The next km was down to 4:07, 4:10( for a 3km time of 12:30).  From 3km to 4km they walked 4:11, and Trevor's "final" km he walked 4:09 to walk an amazing 20:53.25, breaking the record by 4 seconds.

 Since the race was a 10km race, Trevor still had to complete the distance in order for the time to count, so he strolled the next 12.5 laps and finished in 51 minutes, winning the junior race.

 Tim, meanwhile, lost a bit of focus because he was so happy with Trevor's race that he slowed down after Trevor stopped, but he still mananged to walk 42:49, the fastest 10km in the US in two years.

Just a few short minutes later, Tim jumped into the 5km to help Rachel in her first hard workout/race since coming down from altitude.  Rachel walked a solid 23:36.  Next up for Rachel will be a 20km race in Germany on April 25th.  

For Tim and Trevor, it will be America's Race Walk Championship in El Salvador on Friday May 1st.

In other news, Chris Tegtmeier will be competing at the Penn Relays, where he walked his first and only 10km race of his career a few years ago.  In the women's race, Lauren Forgues will be making her debut after 8 months off of training recovering form knee surgery.

 Best of luck to the TEAM!

Almost 50 kids competed in a 1500m race after the 20km races were finished.  Although Tim was tired, the kids that he was walking with placed 2nd in both of the two heats.  That means that Tim placed 2nd three times that day!!  :)  First Patrick beat him, and then 14-year old Molly Josephs from Long Island beat him!

More importantly, the kids had a lot of fun.  Full results are available at www.eteams.com/stwc

Click the above link to see a video of the race in Pharr, Texas.  Tim placed 2nd in a time of 1:28:04 to qualify for the America's Race walk Championships in El Salvador on May 1st and 2nd.

The race was almost 4 minutes faster than Tim walked last season after his surgery.

 Also, Trevor walked his way to a huge PR in a time of 44:26 for 10km.  Trevor qualified for the race in El Salvador and also for the World Youth Championships in Italy in July.

We have now been here in Flagstaff for almost 3 weeks.  Trevor and I have less than a week to go, while Rachel and Lauren have about 10 days to go.  The Plaetzer and Tysse family left yesterday for Norway, while Sabine and Bastian are here for another 3 days. 

Training has been going very well.  Over 140km the past two weeks and Rachel has had almost the same.  Lauren's training has been progressing nicely, and Trevor is ready to rock and roll next weekend in Texas.

Here is a great picture of me training with Kjersti, Sabine and Trevor on our 2.5km course.  This could be the last picture that I ever have of Kjersti and I racewalking together because she has already announced her retirement after the end of the season.  

Click on the above link and then scroll through the pictures until you get to # 32.

It appears that Tim was a little excited about being "back" after missing most of last season due to his labrum surgery.