Dan Empfield - Coming to a Landis Near You! 9/12/11

It is an honor for Landis Tri Club to host Dan Empfield as our guest speaker during our September 12, 2001, 6:30pm club meeting.  Come early to get a prime seat, as this meeting has been opened to all Landis clubs and teams and all Landis Cylcleries.

Dan's very impressive bio follows below.

We will see you on September 12th!! 

BIO:   Born in California in 1957, Empfield is a graduate of South Tahoe
High School and the University of Nevada (Reno), earning a Bachelor of
Science in biology.

Empfield competed in the first Ironman held on Hawaii's Big Island, in 1981.
He designed the original triathlon wetsuit, and founded wetsuit manufacturer
Quintana Roo in 1987.  In 1989 Empfield debuted another design, the first
bike "built from the aerobars back." The first Quintana Roo Superform had
650c wheels front and back, and an 80-degree seat angle.

He sold Quintana Roo to Saucony, Inc., in 1995, and stayed on to run
Saucony's bike division - which included Quintana Roo and Merlin - for four
years. He left in 1999 and founded Slowtwitch.com.

In 2003 Empfield developed the F.I.S.T. Tri Bike Fit System for triathletes,
featuring "stack" and "reach," a set of bike fit metrics popular among tri
bike manufacturers and fitters. He's given fit clinics and workshops all
over the United States and Europe. He continues to write for, and publish,
Slowtwitch.com.

He lives in a ranch in the San Gabriel Mountains outside of Los Angeles with
his wife Tanya, 7 dogs, 2 horses, a bike, swim goggles, and a pair of
running shoes.