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Going to London: Maintaining Your Perspective
Steve Jonas Feb. 18, 2014
My paternal grandfather, Jacob Kyzor, came from the East End of London. Even though Grandpa Jacob’s parents were mid-19th century Jewish emigrants from Russia, he always regarded himself as English.
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Getting Started as a Regular Exerciser
Steve Jonas Jan. 17, 2014
When you see the headline in the sports section of your local newspaper that pitchers and catchers are reporting in a month or less, if you are a baseball fan, you know that even if there is snow on the ground spring is on the way. So while in some parts of the country multisport racing goes year-round, for many of us, now is when we start to think about our own spring training for the upcoming season.
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Multisport Racing, Gift-giving, and Goal-Setting
Steve Jonas Dec. 17, 2013
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Revisiting Your Goals: A Beginner’s Guide
Steve Jonas Nov. 19, 2013
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Slow, but you like getting a Medal? Hang in there. Hey, you never know
Steve Jonas Oct. 25, 2013
Talking Tri-/Duathlon for Ordinary Mortals®: A Series by Steve Jonas Slow, but you like getting a Medal? Hang in there. Hey, you never know I am a very lucky man to have found triathlon. I reached the age of 46 having been able to do only two sports reasonably well. They were downhill skiing, which I got into during my first year of medical school at the age of 22, and sail-boating, which I got into in my 30s. I fell in love with skiing on my very first day, even though I spent almost as much time down on the snow as I did actually standing up on my skis. But not be good at any of the usual school sports I felt that I had finally discovered one I could do, if I took lessons and practiced. Eventually I did it well enough to become a Level I Certified Ski Instructor. As for sailing, I was a good seaman and a safe sailor and just loved the “sailing sensation.” But I was never much at making my boat go fast in the club races which I regularly entered, and in sailboat racing if you’re not first, second, or third overall, fuhgeddaboudit (as we say in Noo Yawk). But then came triathlon, at age 46.
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Talking About Health
Steve Jonas Sept. 20, 2013
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So, Do Slow People Ever Race?
Steve Jonas Aug. 13, 2013
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What is a "Real" Triathlete/Duathlete?
Steve Jonas July 16, 2013
As you know by now, triathlons and duathlons come in a variety of distances and levels of difficulty.
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How Much Training Will You Need?
Steve Jonas June 10, 2013
Is multisport racing for everyone? Are the real triathletes only those who go fast and train for at least 15 hours per week? Well, some of the participants in our sport seem to think so.
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Why Try the Tri and Why Do the Du?
Steve Jonas April 25, 2013
Regular readers of these pages likely know what triathlons and duathlons are, but just in case you are just coming into multisport racing, it might be helpful to go over those definitions. Triathlons are distance races with three separate legs. The usual combination is swimming, road cycling, and running — in that order. However, there are other combinations, such as: downhill skiing, cycling and running (and I did a couple of those some years back); running, cycling and canoeing/kayaking; and swimming, off-road cycling and running. But by far the most common combination is swim-bike-run, with the latter two done on the road. They come in a variety of lengths from short to very, very long. And in that regard, do you know what, for a triathlete, is a crazy triathlete? Why one who has done a longer race than the longest one she or he has done.