Pete Pfannerstill is more than just a Sports Massage Therapist. He is an athlete, a scientist and an educator of the highest degree. His own dedication to running has allowed him to finish over 40 marathons and ultramarathons, including three, 100 mile runs (PR 23:30). Pete did not begin his career in athletics. His doctorate in Analytical Chemistry allowed him to work as a chemist for several years, during which time he contemplated increasing his endurance and timing by better understanding the body. He decided that learning massage therapy would be advantageous, not only to himself but to his running mates. He never thought that massage therapy would ever become anything more than a hobby. As Pete attended massage school, he slowly realized that working on people and helping them with their various physical issues was far more satisfying than working in a chemistry lab. The more he learned and the more athletes he worked on, the more he realized that sports massage was where he needed to be. It took two long years of developing a clientele before he could say goodbye to chemistry forever. Sports massage was always foremost on Pete's mind. He accumulated the knowledge of working on each athlete and took every sports massage workshop available, but it was the training in Myofascial Therapy (MFT) that Pete received from William Bonney, Ph.D., LMT that provided Pete with his greatest insight into dealing with athletes. Integrating MFT into his clinical sports massage practice has taken him to new levels of understanding of the athlete’s timing, participation and recovery from the intensity of competition. Pete has become one of the most sought after sports massage therapist and educator in the country. He has worked with major league baseball, with Olympic athletes and with the top triathletes in the world. Pete teaches Sports Massage and the Kinesio Taping Method as an approved continuning education provider (FL # 50-2081 NCBTMB # 386613-00).