Angela Naeth is coming soon to a newsstand near you.
The 29-year-old from Prince George is off to a scintillating start on the pro triathlon circuit and Naeth and her efforts on the 70.3 mile (half-Ironman) circuit have not gone unnoticed.
Naeth is the subject of a cover story in the July issue of Triathlon Canada magazine, a Toronto-based national publication with a circulation of 15,000.
"Angela has a terrific story, she is winning a number of big races at the 70.3 distance," said Triathlon Canada publisher San Cohen.
"There is an interesting transition in terms of the age top athletes like Tereza Macel [of Victoria] are retiring. We have a story announcing her retiring [at age 36] and so we thought it would be a nice counterpoint to do a feature story on Angela in this issue.
Naeth started the 2011 season with a fifth-place result in the Abu Dhabi International and the cover photo is one of her standing with her bike, taken at that race.
Naeth most recently posted a third-place finish at the Revolution 3 Quassy Triathlon in Middlebury, Conn.
In May, she won the inaugural Leadman Lifetime Epic 250 in Las Vegas. She captured the crown in an Olympic-distance race in Kemah, Texas and also finished second in 70.3 Ironman series races in Texas and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Naeth was seventh at the 70.3 world championship in Miami in November.
"She's a terrific athlete and it's great to have someone from Prince George doing so well," said Cohen.
"She's had a series of impressive results. I think Angela holds the promise to be one of the next very strong female Ironman distance athletes. She hasn't done an Ironman yet but she's certainly doing very well at the half-Ironman distance, winning events. Last year she finished in the top five in 12 of the 14 races she did and six of them were second-place finishes."
Naeth, a graduate of Prince George secondary school, moved this week from her winter home in Tucson, Ariz., to Boulder, Colo., where she will be out of the searing desert heat and more centrally located to 70.3 series races this summer.
"Training time has virtually been nil the last ten days," Naeth reported on her blog, www.angelanaeth.com/blog.html. "But, despite all the chaos, I've actually enjoyed the time off. I basically have four major 'rest blocks' this year and this was number three. My next one isn't for a while, unfortunately. And my next race, if all goes right in the interim, is the Texas 70.3 in Lubbock... next weekend."
Cohen said the July issue will on sale by July 1.
