TWO NEW FREE ENDURANCE\ SPORTS NEWSLETTERS

Endurance Sports News and Tour de France Times provinde topical, succinnt anjd relevant news about the world of endurance and trhe world's most lucrative cycling event.

10/1/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TWO FREE ELECTRONIC ENDURANCE SPORTS NEWSLETTERS AVAILABLE

SACRAMENTO, CaIif. -- Veteran journalist James Raia publishes two free electronic newsletters, Endurance Sports News and Tour de France Times.

Endurance Sports News covers running, triathlon, cycling and various other endurance sports and is published twice monthly. Interviews, opinion, news products, featured links, it's all there -- timely, succinct and free.

Tour de France Times reports on the cyclists and topics relating to the world's most prestigious cycling event. It's published monthly, except during the July event. It's then published daily from France by a journalist who will be covering the event for the seventh time next July.

Raia, a reporter and editor for more than 25 years, has attended and reported on events like the Tour de France, Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon World Championship, World Cycling Championships and dozens of others unique endurance events -- the Winter Olympics to the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run.

A veteran of more than 65 marathons and ultramarathon finishes, Raia contributes regularly to more than a dozen newspapers, including syndicated running and cycling columns as well as periodicals from Golf Magazine to Modern Maturity and Runner's World to Oxygen.

A simple subscription sign-up box is available for both free electronic newsletters on the publisher's web site: http://www.byjamesraia.com.

For additional information or advertising opportunities, contact James Raia, Editor/Publisher, Endurance Sports News/Tour de France Times, 706 56th Street #150, Sacramento, CA 95819. E-mail: RaiaRuns@aol.com; Web site: http://www.byjamesraia.com; Office phone: 916-451-8452

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