Word: triathlons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parker also participates in a triathlon competition with his team every fall that includes running, completing an erg piece, and racing up and down the steps of the Stadium. Parker gives his rowers a real run for their money, placing in the top half of the group every year...
...Mini-triathlon...
...Harvard women's swimming and diving team will host a mini-triathlon this Sunday, May 11. The event, which will kick-off at 7 a.m., will include a 800-meter swimm, a 12-mile bike ride, and a 4-mile...
...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...
...people who participate are dead serious and well off. According to Triathlon magazine, their average age is 34, they graduated from college, they earn $45,000 a year and 40% of them carry an American Express card of one color or another. Says Beth Schneider-Needel, one of the organizers of the Chicago race: "It's just a natural extension of the aggression they take to their careers. Because they work, they have to train in the mornings, at lunch and at night. It's hell on your social life, and you don't get much sleep...