What can I say, this place is amazing. I was introduced to Pauole Sport when two women triathletes from here conducted a basic triathlon introductory class at the Redmond REI a while back. They were SO friendly, SO informative and SO helpful, I learned so much it's scary. These athletes were also incredibly inspirational to me, a total novice, and I spoke to them at leangth after class.
Fast forward a few months and I decided to get a swim coach for one session (I figured I had better try out swimming in open water at least once before the triathlon I had registered for!). My coach was Kainoa, and she was SO patient with me, helping me with donning the wetsuit (no easy feat!), helping to teach me new swim strokes, lending me her equipment (in my haste to get there, I had forgotten "stuff"), giving me a ton of swimming tips, letting me pick her brains about many pesky tri questions I had, etc. She was very encouraging and supportive, and I really appreciated her faith in me (when my own, in myelf, was sorely wavering as each wave hit).
I'm thinking, if you need a tri coach, definately for the swimming or running events (probably for the biking, too), this is definately an A-one place, regardless of what level you're at. read more