Anne Linton, MD

Specialties: Road Racing, Triathlon, Cyclocross, Century Riding, 5km - Half Marathon Running, General Fitness.

Home: Lake Oswego, OR

Client levels accepted: Individual, SemiCustom, Custom, Consultation.

Available to take on all levels of athletes both racing and non-racing.

Available for seminars, camps, clinics, and team direction on a contractual basis.

Coach Anne Linton’s experience as a physician and athlete give her a unique perspective to understanding individuals and their racing and fitness goals.  She has worked in various medical settings over her 20 year career as a physician, ranging from Emergency Medicine and Orthopedics, to Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, and has participated in everything from Ironman triathlons to cyclocross.

Anne has a strong knowledge base of exercise as a science as well as an understanding of the athlete as a whole person, both mentally and physically.  As someone who got back into racing at an older age, Anne understands the perspective of a masters level athlete. She knows what it is like first hand to rehabilitate one’s body back to a certain fitness level as well as nurse back from injury and prevent future injuries.

In addition to an undergraduate degree in engineering, Anne received her MD from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland Ohio and completed her residency at the Cleveland Clinic. She is an ACSM Certified Personal Trainer and USA Cycling Level 3 Coach.

After a strong athletic background as a child, Anne focused on academics in college participating in intramural sports and running a few 5 and 10 km road races. In medical school she turned to triathlons, winning her age group on many occasions. But then the rigors of residency and her medical career kept her out of competition until 2003 when she realized she was neglecting her physical and mental well being as a result of working too much.  She then bought a bike, got back into bike riding, hired a coach and began competing in triathlons. She was able to lose 40 pounds in the process and stopped practicing clinical medicine, focusing on the study of exercise physiology and helping others achieve their goals. She has helped many new women cyclists and triathletes get into the sport. She also has coached her 71 year old mother to do a half marathon with the goal of completing a full marathon. In addition she has worked as a personal trainer and a spinning instructor.

She has competed in multiple short distance triathlons, half ironman races, completed Ironman Coueur d’Alene in 2005, and qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships  in her age group in 2007. She was also the overall Master’s female champion in the Scoggins Valley Triathlon in September of 2007 in Oregon.  She is a Cat 3 Road Racer who has completed many stage races including The Elkhorn Classic Stage Race in Baker City Oregon the past two years. She won the Oregon State Team Time Trial as part of a masters women’s team in 2009. She is a Cat 2 and Masters cyclocross rider and was 3^rd in the Oregon State Championships in 2008. She usually places in the top of her age group in Cyclocross and has won her age group in short track mountain bike races.

Anne is married and lives with her husband and two rescue golden retrievers in Lake Oswego, Oregon. She enjoys hiking, camping, mountain biking, skiing, cycling, swimming, watching any Cleveland sports team, and playing with her dogs. She also just loves having a nice cup of coffee and reading the paper every morning, something she never had time to do when she was working as a physician.

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