Sierra Mulitisport Productions has been organizing local Triathlons, Duathlons, Running races and Adventure races for the past 10 years.

We are a husband and wife team who have been actively participating in small and big events ourselves from local runs to Ironman in Hawaii. We currenlty coach athletes from all different levels privately, sprint distance to Ironman Distance, swimming as well as marathon training. Each athlete will receive his or her own personalized schedule every one to two weeks. If you are interested, contact us at (559) 4357541.

Our main goal is to organize small, good quality event, where you get your money's worth. Fun and sportsmanship are very important to us.

On Sunday March 22nd the Spring Fling took place in Woodward Park, Fresno, California. The weather did not fully cooperate as it rained during registartion. Once the race started the rain slowed down and by the time we finished the awards the sun came out for a while.

Despite the bad weather we had a great turnout. Close to 100 athletes participated in the 4 mile run, followed by about a 10 mile bike. Due to the rain and wind we shortened the bike portion. After the bike the athletes completed this duathlon with a 2 mile run.

Lutz Braun completed the course in 0:59:05, followed by Ben Regan and Gus Gomez. By the women Felicia Gomez won in a time of 1:03:31, followed by Maureen Sheehan and Megan Piepgrass.

We would like to thank all our volunteers who came out and supported us in this less than perdect weather. We would also like to thank all the sponsors to help us make this event a success. We would like to thank Sierra Running company, our local running store for providing the winners with a generous gift certificate, as well as a 15% off coupon in each athletes goodybag. We would like to thank our local bike store - Trisport for giving each athlete a waterbottle in their goody bag. We would like to thank Hammer Nutrition for overall prizes to the athletes, product on the course and product in the goodybags. Thanks road ID for the race numbers and the prizes to our winners. Last but not least we would like to thank Ray Keys-bramlett from active.me for coming out and providing all athletes with energy drinks. To order product go to rkeys-bramlett.qhealthzone.com

Don't forget to look on line at www.markhaymond.smugmug.com for pictures of this event.

The Millerton Lake Triathlon took place on Saturday April 18th on the Madera side of Millerton Lake. The triathlon was a great success. The 400 yard swim, 12 mile bike and 3 mile run was won by Ben Regan in a time of 53:32. He broke his own record from last year by 17 seconds. By the women, Shelly Lynn came out of the water as first lady, and was able to hold on to her lead and won in a time of 1:09:07.

We would like to thank all our volunteers who helped us make this event a success. As one of the athletes emailed to us after the event:"You guys put on a great event! Very well organized, thank you. I will definitely be looking forward to it next year." Chris McLain.

We would like to congratulate our top three winners. By the Men we saw 1) Ben Regan 53:32 2) Scott Bolin 56:50 and 3) Nick Wallace 58:10 By the women we saw 1) Shelly Lynn 1:09:07 2) Christine Maser 1:10:55 and 3) Casey Horn.

We would like to thank the following sponsors: Hammer Nutrition, Sierra Running Company and Tri-sport. If you need anything triathlon related, both Sierra Running Company and Tri-sport are convenietly located across from Woodward park on the corner of Fort Washington and Friant. Tell them Faron and Heleen sent you!

Don't forget to look up your pictures of this event at Mark Haymond We also like to thank Ray. He was out there with his booth, providing free XS Energy drinks, Nutrilite sports drinks and water to all event participants. For more information about this product and to enter a monthly drawing for a free case of drinks, join their email list on Newsletter

It was great organizing this event for all the athletes out there. Thanks to all of you who joined us. Keep exercising!

The USMS One-Mile Open Water National Championship, May 11th was a great success. Over 200 athletes from all over the United States had signed up. We had people all the way from Hawaii to Florida enjoying a weather perfect day.

The water temperature was 72 degrees. At 8:30 AM the first wave, men 44 and younger went off. Jeff Erwin from Boise, ID came out of the water first in a very fast time of 17:09:6. We had a ty for second place by Mike Shaffer from Ventura and Barton Wells from Palo Alto in a time of 17:36:7

First place by the women went to Heidi George from Palo Alto in a time of 17:46.8 This was the fourth fastest swim time of the day. Lisa Hazen from Saratoga was second in 19:07.7 and third was Meg Gill from San Francisco in a time of 19:38.7

We would like to thank all our volunteers who helped us out with this event. we could not do this without you! We a,so like to thank Hammer Nutrition, Road ID, Lion Raisons and California Figs, and Swim Suits West for all your support.