For the second consecutive year, Team Rudy Project’s Lara Block of North Miami Beach was ranked second in the 35-39 age group for the 2004 All-American Duathlete honors in the Inside Triathlon January 2005 issue.

Beth Burchill of Rochester, N.Y., was first. Burchill finished ahead of Block by 12 seconds at the Duathlon World Championships in May in Belgium. Burchill was fourth overall and Block fifth.

Block will be completing her yoga teacher training in January, and is striving to find a balance between yoga and triathlon.

''The two disciplines [triathlons and yoga] are complimentary to each other in the physical aspect but quite different in their mental aspects,'' Block. ``Triathlon is win-win-win. Yoga is no ego, non-competitiveness.''

A 1989 University of Miami graduate who grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, Block is married with three kids. She works full-time running a hedge fund business (Magnum US Investments) based in Aventura and Friedland Art, a wholesale art company.