If you have a link you think we should add, contact Gary Davis.
To find out more about how The Trail Foundation is working with the City of Austin to continually provide improvements to the Trail and what you can do to help, explore their website. You can join for as little as $45 for an individual membership.
Reporter Shivani Vora of the New York Times produced this piece for the “Urban Athlete” column in the Times on November 19, 2010. (Requires free NY Times registration.) It’s about racewalking in New York City, mostly about two clubs, the Park Racewalkers and the New York Walkers Club.
ESPN.com writer Jim Caple wrote this column on July 6, 2008: “Lack of Respect? Racewalking Relegated to the Parking Lot”, about the men’s 20km racewalk event at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, OR. A positive article about how our sport does not get the respect it deserves.
Dave’s site has information about his upcoming clinics and camps, his books, information about training and a photo gallery.
Racewalk.com, from the same people, is a site full of racewalking information, race results, photos, books and products for sale and links to other sites.
The Waterloo Track and Field Club in Austin sponsors local events and promotes track and field events as a "sport for life".
Here is a link to the Texas Racewalking Yahoo Group. You can register for it and exchange questions and information with other Texas racewalkers.
The USA Track and Field South Texas Association website has information about upcoming events, lots of links and more, including information and links related to Texas racewalking.
The Wikipedia entry for “Racewalking” provides an excellent introduction to the sport.
eRaceWalk.com has some very interesting content, such as a video of a world-class racewalker moving at a 6-minute-mile pace, a moving cartoon stick figure that illustrates the mechanics of racewalking and some animated video of racewalkers that you can slow down and stop in order to study their technique. Lots of training information, a store with books and videos and links to other sites.
The South Texas Walking Club is a big racewalking club where lots of kids at elementary and middle school age are learning to racewalk and training for races under the tutelage of Coach A. C. Jaime.
Here is an article in the November 20, 2007 edition of the New York Times "Science Times" section. It's about a research study of 500 older people for over a decade that found that those who walked more quickly were less likely to die over the course of the study.
If you use orthotics in your racewalking shoes, you may find that a hard plastic orthotic, good for running, is too inflexible for racewalking. Podiatrist Dr. Michael Valenza of the Austin Foot Center can make you a pair of flexible orthotics that are better suited for racewalking. But many people discover that racewalking delivers them from the need for orthotics.
Many of the sites mentioned here include more links to other racewalking-related sites. If you have a racewalking site in mind that you think should be included here, please let us know.
Racewalking Videos
If you would like to see some accomplished racewalkers in action, take a look at these videos.
Excellent study video! Here, from eRaceWalk.com, is some excellent slow motion animated video of racewalkers that you can stop, slow down or speed up in order to study their technique in detail.
15-year old elite racewalker Trevor Barron shows his form from a little earlier in his career. His coach, Tim Seaman, tells us that Trevor is much better and much faster now.
Jefferson Perez of Ecuador wins his 3rd consecutive gold medal in the men's 20km walk at the 2007 IAAF Athletics World Championships in Osaka, Japan.
This ten-minute Racewalk Planet Video shows differences in racewalking techniques.
Or, go to YouTube, put the term "racewalking" into the search box and see what you come up with. But be careful of instructional racewalking videos you may find on YouTube. There are some up there by people who clearly have no idea what they are doing!
If you have seen a racewalking video on YouTube or elsewhere that you think we should link to, please let us know.