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Dave McGovern - is a roving racewalking coach, a
member of the U.S. National Racewalking Team and
the author of The Complete Guide to Racewalking, The
Complete Guide to Marathon Walking, and Training and
Precision Walking. During his 20-year competitive
career he won 13 U.S. National Championships and
walked 20 kilometers (12.4 miles-one of the two
Olympic distances for men) in 1:24:29--a 6:46
per-mile pace-which ranks me as the fastest American
ever to not make an Olympic Team. Dave leads
week-long training camps and weekend clinics all over
the globe. <www.racewalking.org.>

Bonnie Stein, M.Ed., CPTS - is a national masters
racewalk award winner, author, noted speaker, and the
founder of AceWalker Walk Your Way To Fitness
Programs. As a nationally certified Personal Trainer,
racewalk instructor, and fitness instructor, she has been
featured on CNN, in Walking Magazine, Prevention
Magazine, Women's Sports and Fitness Magazine, and
Sesame Street Parents Magazine. Bonnie has taught
thousands of people the benefits of including a program
of walking and nutrition as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Bonnie teaches Racewalking classes and private lessons
in the Tampa Bay area and Rev Up Your Walk seminars
all over the country. <www.acewalker.com>

Distracted from doctoral studies in the mid-70s by a growing interest in
Sport Administration, Roger began working full-time for the 1978
Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee. After the Games, he
became the first full-time Technical Director of Alberta Track and Field
Association (now Athletics Alberta), leaving in 1981 to work with the
Organizing Committees of the 1983 World University Games in Edmonton,
and the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
He moved to Ottawa in early 1985 to work with the Canadian Track and
Field Association (now Athletics Canada). He held the Coaching
Development Coordinator and Manager positions until 1996. He left
Athletics Canada in 1998, returned to his academic roots and earned a
degree in Translation at the University of Ottawa in June 2001.

Roger has no significant career as an athlete! Always an Athletics
enthusiast, he found, shortly after arriving in Canada, that joining a
University track team here was easier than in England. He thought that
being on the U of Alberta team would be a good way to visit other
western cities during his planned “one-year” stay. His interest deepened
in the early 70s as a member of Edmonton Olympic Club (EOC). He began
coaching in 1972 with EOC and the University of Alberta. He earned his
first National Team Staff position in 1973, and has continued to
accompany National Teams ever since.

Asked by two distance runners if he would teach them to racewalk, he
was not believed when he said that he knew nothing about it. But they
learned together when they found it was true. This led to coaching
positions at the Olympic Games (1992) and six World Race Walk Cups.
Roger was National Race Walk Coordinator from 1991/92 and 1994/98.
His involvement as a coach and educator for the event continues; he was
a founding member of the Bytown Walkers Club in Ottawa in 2002.

Roger very much enjoys promoting the fitness and personal values of
sport, especially to new participants. He believes firmly that advanced
knowledge and techniques, properly adapted, have much to offer the
recreational athlete and fitness enthusiast. As an Olympian, he believes
strongly in the first sentence of the Canadian Olympic Committee’s
Statement of Beliefs: “We believe in sport being fun”.