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Therese Iknoian combines both enthusiastic participation and academic knowledge in both sports training and outdoors. She has her masters degree in exercise physiology, is a former nationally ranked race walker, and an internationally published free-lance sports & training writer whose work has appeared in Backpacker, Walking, Men's Health, and Fitness, among others. She is the author of Mind-Body Fitness for Dummies (IDG, Nov. 2000), and of the upcoming Tai Chi For Dummies (IDG, Aug. 2001). She has authored two books on walking (Fitness Walking and Walking Fast, both Human Kinetics). She has developed fitness and walk/run programs for several international companies including Polar, Nike, and Star Trac, where she developed Trekking, The Total Treadmill Workout for runners and walkers.

Therese is also a partner/editor in GearTrends.com, a sports gear information site, and SNEWS, an outdoor and fitness trade newsletter, with her husband Michael Hodgson, and is the founder of fitness information site Total Fitness Network.com. She is a Health/Fitness Instructor certified by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise, as well as a USA Track & Field Level II-certified coach. As a race walker, she was ranked 24th overall woman in the country in 1995, and in 1994 broke the world record for her age group for the Indoor 3K. She ran her first marathon in 2000 in 3 hours 45 minutes, qualifying for Boston 2001 where she also competed and finished. In 1999, she began competing in Adventure Races, and her team placed 3rd in the corporate division in the New York Hi-Tec Adventure Race. These days, if she's not writing, she's out running, mountain biking, climbing, or looking for the next fitness adventure challenge.

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