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| Executive Team |
| DONAVON GUYOT, CEO |
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Donavon is a life long endurance athlete who competed in his first triathlon in 1989 at the age of 15. In the years since, Donavon spent summers training for triathlon at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO and for Modern Pentathlon in Roswell, NM. In 1990, he earned a US Junior National Triathlon Championship and in 2004, he completed his first Ironman event in Brazil. In addition to time in the trenches, Donavon studied Exercise Science as an undergraduate at the world renowned Ball State University Human Performance Lab in Muncie, IN where he also earned an MA in Communication Theory and an MS in Information Systems.
Donavon's professional background includes time spent as a technology consultant for Deloitte & Touche in New York City, NY and Media One Labs in Boulder, CO. In the fall of 1999 Donavon became one of the early employees of Active.com in La Jolla, CA.
All paths converged when Donavon joined the team at Training Peaks in the summer of 2001, where he combined a lifelong passion for endurance sports with his background in information systems. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, he is actively involved in product development and is driven to provide athletes with tools to maximize their athletic potential and extend their enjoyment of activity though every phase of their life.
Donavon and his wife Jani currently live just outside of Boulder in Erie, CO where they are both active in the local endurance community.
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| GEAR FISHER, Co-Founder, CTO |
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Gear graduated from Colorado State University in 1991 with a degree in Civil Engineering. While in college, he competed as a category 2 road cyclist and earned many top ten placings in various races across the United States. After working for a water resources engineering firm for six years, he changed careers in 1998 to begin working as a programmer for a budding web consulting firm. A year later, and having risen to the position of Director of Technology, he took on another challenge by helping Managed Business Solutions start a new internet consulting unit within their Inc. 100 Company.
While helping grow the Internet Business Unit from four to over twenty people, he began working at home on a small side project with his close friends Dirk and Joe Friel: TrainingBible.com. This effort was a labor of love and grew out of his passion for cycling and endurance sports. Within two years, the company's success allowed him to leave MBS and become the first full time employee of TrainingBible.com, which would later become Peaksware, LLC.
Today Mr. Fisher is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Peaksware, LLC and is responsible for overseeing all technology and development for the company's products. He is also heavily involved with key business opportunities and strategic planning.
Gear lives in Fort Collins, CO with his wife Shana and their two daughters Payton and Kendal.
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| DIRK FRIEL, Co-Founder, Director of Business Development |
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Dirk Friel's coaching style developed from over five years of European racing experience and 25 years of world-class coaching knowledge passed down from his father Joe Friel, author of "The Training Bible" series of books. Dirk is a USAC Certified Coach and the author of "Workouts in a Binder for Indoor Cycling".
Dirk started bicycle racing in 1982 and lived at the Olympic Training Center before moving to Europe where he spent three years as an amateur and two as a professional cyclist. Dirk's racing experience includes the prestigious classics Het Volk, Paris-Brussels, and many stage races such as the Tour DuPont, Tour of Holland, and Tour of Malaysia. His strength is evident in the one-day classics demonstrated by his consistent placing in the top 10 among Americans at the USPRO Road Championship in Philadelphia. Dirk has also broadened his athletic experience by completing the 2005 Ironman South Africa in 10:45.
Dirk's coaching experience includes helping prepare athletes young and old for regional, national and World Championship events. Dirk's athletes have won state and national championship medals, in tandem with balancing family and work responsibilities. His racing savvy and training knowledge from years of elite racing are his greatest attributes and are the foundation of his ability to coach any level of cyclist seeking improvement. Dirk coaches road cyclists and mountain bikers and specializes in training with power and preparing young athletes for European racing.
Dirk currently lives in Boulder, CO with his wife Kim and their daughter, Keara.
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| HUNTER ALLEN, President, CyclingPeaks |
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Hunter is a former professional cyclist for the Navigators team and has raced for over 17 years in Europe, South America, the U.S. and Canada with over 40 career victories. He is an Elite level USA Cycling Coach and a sought after speaker on training with power meters. In the 8 years that he has been coaching, the athletes that Hunter has trained have won over 400 events, including two national championships, and many regional and district titles.
Hunter is widely known as one of the world's top experts in coaching athletes using power meters and has personally analyzed over 5000 power meter files. As the co-developer of Cycling Peaks Software, he set out to try to create a product that would bring athletes and coaches closer by providing them with tools to make more sense of data collected using power meters. His ultimate goal has always been to teach the athletes he coaches how to analyze their own power meter data using the latest tools.
Hunter holds a B.A. in Economics from Randolph-Macon College, is a USA Cycling Elite Coach, a certified Endurance Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Fitness Trainer, Certified Coach for the Leukemia Society- Team in Training- Virginia Head Coach for Cycling, Certified Nutritional Consultant, Certified Yoga Teacher and also teaches Tai Chi.
Hunter lives in Bedford, VA. He is the father of two boys and has been married to his 'Super Wife', Kate for 11 years.
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| JOE FRIEL, Co-Founder |
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Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients have include elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes, from all corners of the globe. Many of his athletes have included American and foreign national champions, world championship competitors, professionals and Olympian Ryan Bolton. He holds a masters degree in exercise science, is a USA Triathlon and USA Cycling certified Elite-level coach, and is a founder and past Chairman of the USA Triathlon National Coaching Commission.
Joe is the author of The Cyclist's Training Bible, Cycling Past 50, Precision Heart Rate Training (co-author), The Triathlete's Training Bible, The Mountain Biker's Training Bible, Triathlon: Going Long (co-author), The Paleo Diet for Athletes (co-author) and Your First Triathlon. He is a featured columnist for Inside Triathlon and VeloNews magazines, and writes feature stories for other international publications and websites. In addition to Training Peaks, Joe is the founder and President of Ultrafit Associates, LLC and Training Bible Coaching.
Bicycling magazine says, "Joe Friel is arguably the most experienced personal cycling coach in the U.S.(and) his book, The Cyclist's Training Bible has become the, well, Bible of the sport." The Boulder Daily Camera says, "Friel's reputation for strength and endurance training for serious athletes has made him a coach in demand." Active.com says of Friel, "Coach and trainer Joe Friel's well-known Training Bible series of books for cyclists and triathletes has changed the way multisport athletes train."
Joe lives and trains on the side of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale, Ariz. on the edge of the Sonoran Desert overlooking the Valley of the Sun.
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