A few of the Janes roughed it last week in beautiful Hawaii for a week long summer running camp and get together. Tania Fischer, Kelle Taylor, Amanda Rondash and Sissel Berntsen-Heber stayed in Amanda’s family vacation home along with their kids. Days were filled with long runs, yoga, boat rides and hikes in the hills.

This Tuesday, April 13th, the Nike Mobile Unit and Emily Mitchell, an elite runner and sport’s dietitian, will be on site in Hermosa Beach group run.   Mark your calendars, block out your schedule.  You won’t want to miss this one.

“The Nike Mobile Tour visits the Hermosa Beach group run next Tuesday, April 13th! Come run with us and trial the new Nike footwear, the Nike+ SportBand and have your stride checked out with gait analysis!” Yes, you will run on a treadmill while Nike Mobile staff video tapes you and then analyzes your gait. FREE NIKE RAFFLE giveaways as well.

AND, that’s not all.  Emily Mitchell MS, RD, CSSD, CDE will also be on site to answer any and/all of your nutrition questions.  If you are looking to improve your performance through diet and nutrition, have questions on how to prepare nutritionally for endurance races, then make sure you come on Tuesday.  Emily not only is a Registered Dietitian, a Diabetes Educator and one of only a few hundred Board Certified Sports Specialist Dietitians in the nation, she is also an elite runner.  Emily is a member of the Nike Sponsored Elite female LA based running team THE JANES, a two time NIKE Run Hit Wonder 10k female champion, Pasadena 1/2 marathon female champion, the 12th place
female finisher at the 2007 LA Marathon and a sub 3hr Chicago marathon to name a few of her accomplishments.  See her full bio below.

Emily Mitchell, MS, RD, CSSD, CDE is a Clinical Dietitian II and Certified Diabetes Educator.  An expert in diet and nutrition, Emily counsels, treats and educates patients suffering from diabetes and
weight management problems.  In addition to working closely with Endocrinologists and other physicians, Emily teaches numerous classes and lectures in the areas of weight management,  sports nutrition, and diabetes.  She also served as head of marketing for  the Cedars-Sinai weight management program.  Emily is an active member of the American Dietetic Association, American Association of Diabetes Educators, American Diabetes Association and California Dietetic Association.

An Indiana all-state cross country athlete in high school, Emily is now sponsored by PowerBar and a member of the elite Nike all female Los Angeles based “Janes” running team.  She continues to compete at the highest of levels, exemplified by her two time Nike Run Hit Wonder 10k female champion, 2009 Pasadena ½ marathon female Champion, sub 3hr 2008 Chicago Marathon and 12th overall female at the 2007 LA Marathon to name a few. Emily holds an ultimate goal of qualifying for the 2012 US Olympic Marathon Trials.

Emily has been spotlighted on KCAL/KCBS TV,contributes to the Cedars-Sinai Acromegaly Newsletter, Nike’s ClubRunLA & TEAM IN TRAINING program, and wrote for the Purdue University Health Center newsletter. Emily has also consulted for companies such as Nike, Morgan Stanley,
Toyota and Impact Clinical Trials, a Los Angeles based testing institution for major pharmaceutical companies, on their research studies involving upcoming innovative medications to treat diabetes.

Emily has worked at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and  Providence St. Joseph Medical Center.  Emily received a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics and graduated with honors from Purdue University.  She also holds a Masters Degree in Exercise Science and is one of only a few hundred dietitians in the United States credentialed as a Board Certified Sports Specialist Dietitian.

On Thursday, March 4th at 10:07 pm, California and national track and field and cross country lost an invaluable friend of the sport. Doug Speck, the DyeStatCal.com co-editor, Southern California meet announcer and USATF involved, passed away after a two year bout with melanoma cancer. Doug worked with Kirsten, the GM of DyeStat, for the past four years and was a close friend. Doug has touched the lives of many young and now retired or current elite athletes in one way or another while he reported on them. He was reporting on Tania, Sylvia and Kirsten while they were in high school and even before that which shows how long he’s been involved in track and field and cross country. Southern California USATF association wrote up a great article on Doug here. Here is the story on Doug on DyeStatCal as well information on Doug’s recent award he received from the NSSF.

We will miss you greatly in so many ways, my friend.

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On Saturday, January 30th from 6-9pm come join Nike and other track and field fans at the Beverly Hills Niketown to party! Nike elite athletes will be in attendance, there will be a DJ spinning the tunes and you can get your gait analyzed. Each guest will get a special gift for attending. But, you have to RSVP so head here to do so: Nike Running Facebook Page.