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...this unquestioning workaholism has certainly made Bill Buckley a highly successful and, indeed, profoundly happy man. In a review of an earlier Buckley book featured prominently on the jacket cover, Kurt Vonnegut says"... whenever I see Mr. Buckley I think this...: 'There is a man who has won the decathlon of human existence.'" The irony, however, is that in many ways Buckley, like many of us, never entered the race. Certainly running around boarding schools involves no sprinting, leaping at nearly every conventional conservative ideal no high jump, sailing and skiing no discus throw, and inheriting a large cache from...
Rittenburg won his third straight Track and Field Association-USA National Indoor Pentathlon Championship on January 23. The pentathlon is the indoor counterpart of the decathlon. The indoor version consists of five events, the 55 meter high hurdles, the long jump, the shot put and the grueling 1000 meter race...
What he was getting himself into was multi-event competition. His next move was to prep for the decathlon, the 10-event contest that consists of the 100-meter sprint, the long jump, the high jump, the 400 meter race, the 100-meter high hurdles, the discus, the pole vault, the javelin and the 1500-meter...
With his newfound skill, Rittenburg returned to Cambridge determined to devote II his time to training for the pentathlon and decathlon. Unfortunately, on the second day of practice he injured his knee, and before he had fully recovered from that mishap, he developed a disc problem in his back. Despite these setbacks, he continued to work out when he could...
...stay injury-free, Rittenburg does not rule out the 1988 Olympics. "If I make it through spring decathlon schedule without injury and it seems like I have a shot, then I would consider them [the Olympics]. After graduating, I would like to go out West or South where I could train all year...