I'm the Coeur d'Alene Triathlon's 2013 Sponsored Athlete!!! This blog will be used to share how my progress is going with training updates, my highs & lows and everything in-between. Thanks for following my journey!
A little about me...
Richard Dance married Julienne Hawkes from Pocatello, ID in
April of 1974. Since then in Pocatello, Bremerton, Seattle, and Bellevue they
have had 7 boys and 1 daughter that have gone on to be high school athletes and
academic scholars. All seven of their
boys are Eagle Scouts and lettered in varsity cross country beginning their
freshman year at Newport High School.
Their daughter was freshman athlete of the year at Newport and won the
CDA Young Artist competition in the violin.
Richard used to run with them from age 4 up, but as they have grown he
can’t keep up with them anymore except in a short fun run, much less biking or
swimming.
Julienne has gone on to run in a few triathlons with her
friends. Several of their sons and cousins have competed quite well at
endurance events, and Maria ran the CDA triathlon last year. But Richard has never run one. He needs to. At almost age 62, it is important for his
health to do so.
Richard remembers in 1975 when his body fat was about 3%
whereas now it is closer to 30% which is just beginning to border on
obese. He has had an active life style
with his kids, but isn’t sure how active he can be with his grandkids, who can
already beat him down the mountain skiing at Schweitzer.
During Richard’s 35 years of business experience in public
accounting and tax mitigation work and as a corporate officer with various
companies he has not exercised as regularly as he wished to. Although he has appeared regularly at
national seminars, tradeshows, radio shows, webinars and conference calls to
discuss alternative investments and tax strategies he has not gotten out each
night or morning while on the road and hit the hotel gym or pool. Currently he
is a consultant for Legacy Point Capital, Strategic Capital Partners, and
Premium-Consultant LLC and still does tax mitigation work and discusses alternative
investments with clients. In his early
career and while a Senior Manager at KPMG he became the most often quoted
businessman by the news media in Washington and was a frequent speaker to the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce. He is a native of Seattle that graduated as
valedictorian from Queen Anne High School in 1969. Like his sons he is also an
Eagle Scout. His passion is teaching and in a typical year he usually gives 24
major speeches using mind maps rather than PowerPoint as a more effective way
to transmit knowledge. Richard has been
on the cutting edge of technology for the past 40 years.
In his community in Somerset he served on the board as the
Emergency Preparedness and Safety Coordinator and he and his wife served as the
Co-Presidents of the NHS PTSA. Some of
their children have started to gravitate towards Northern Idaho. Tom is the
dentist at Dance Dentistry for Kids and David is an ophthalmologist that will
be joining the North Idaho Eye Institute in June. Richard & Julienne now enjoy the sky and
spaciousness of Hayden, Idaho.
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