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Gale Bernhardt is a world renowned endurance sports coach, author and speaker. She is most recognized as the 2004 Men’s and Women’s USA Triathlon Olympic Games Coach. She was selected for that position from a small number of top coaches in the nation. Prior to the Olympic nod, she was selected to be the 2003 Men’s and Women’s USA Triathlon Pan American Games Coach.

The Games selections were a result of her performance as one of the few, select World Cup Coaches. Elite athletes and the High Performance staff nominated her for the top position, USA Triathlon staff and board members approved the selection.

One of the pioneers in the profession of coaching triathletes and other multisport athletes, she was the first coach to publish easy-to-use, detailed, complete training plans for multisport athletes. Her first published training plan was in Triathlete magazine, June 1995.

Due to positive reader feedback, that 1995 Triathlete magazine column lead to a regular monthly column in the magazine. Readers couldn’t get enough of her easy-to-follow training plans. Not only were the training plans easy to follow, they produced results. Perhaps no other single training plan is more famous than her “13 Weeks to a 13-Hour Ironman.”

VeloPress recognized her ability to easily communicate with readers and published her first book, The Female Cyclist: Gearing up a Level in 1999. The demand for her skills as a coach and an author continued to rise, with VeloPress printing two editions of Training Plans for Multisport Athletes, Triathlon Training Basics, Workouts in a Binder for Triathletes®, Bicycling for Women and Training Plans for Cyclists. She is the trademark owner for all Workouts in a Binder® books, a unique workout tool that organizes workouts into categories of purpose and is completely waterproof. Several of her books have been purchased and published by foreign presses for reprint in English and other languages.

She has provided coach education sessions for USA Triathlon, USA Cycling and the International Triathlon Union. She continues to work for the International Triathlon Union to provide World Cup and World Championship Series coaching support to the Athlete Development program.