Word: triathlon
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...employer, the Hotel Continental, was the headquarters for the third annual Chicago Bud Light U.S. Triathlon Series, which attracted 2,400 professional and amateur athletes, the largest gathering a triathlon has pulled in so far. There was not enough excess body fat among the participants to fill a shot glass. One could not traipse a hall anywhere without hearing the tick-tick-tick of a ten-speed coming down hard on the heels. To the uninitiated, a crowd like this can be intimidating. And to an observer not possessed of a similar obsession, ceaseless talk of training techniques, water temperatures...
...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...
...mile trip in a Gulfstream III, which began and ended in Washington, included stops in Moscow, Peking, Tokyo and London. Says Knapp of her aerial feat: "It's the most exhilarating thing I've ever done. It's like winning the Indianapolis 500 or the triathlon...
...certain guilty unease. At this very moment, for instance, while the reader's arteries are slowly clogging, alarmingly energetic people like David Horning are out there somewhere, training for races like the Alcatraz Challenge. This is a particularly gruesome example of the newly popular self-torture called the triathlon: a 1.5-mile swim in cold and swirling water from San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park, a 20-mile bicycle trek that crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally a 14.5-mile run from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach across Mount Tamalpais...
...real challenge," says Horning, 35, a Berkeley sports entrepreneur and marketing consultant who is one of the country's top triathletes. (This week he is off to China to promote the first triathlon in the People's Republic.) Horning has broken his back and both legs in separate skiing accidents, and he was born an epileptic, but he discounts these liabilities. The biggest barriers are self-created and psychological, he tells people whom he is trying to hook on the triathlon. "People are always saying 'I can't.' Well, if you say that, you probably...