Word: biking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...began when a bunch of jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation...
McColley is one of 33 cyclists--roughly half of whom are Harvard students--who Saturday completed a nine-week-long transcontinental bike trip to raise money to help fight world hunger...
Appel, who rode his bike to work for eight years, said the trip made him feel like "the luckiest man in America." After touring the country, he concluded that in "one small town after another, the generosity is wonderful...
Finding a replacement is simply out of the question for Pee Wee. This bike is to important that Pee Wee keeps it hidden away in a secret compartment of his backyard; and when he takes it out, he locks it up with enough chain to secure the Statue of Liberty...
...search for the bike takes him all the way to the Alamo, in Texas (where a phony gypsy tells him he could find the two wheeler...