INSIDE THIS ISSUE
JANUARY 2010
Coaches Corner TCSD Contacts Volunteer Members Board Members Member Profile
TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
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2010 Kashi
Duathlon Series Announced* Jan. 16th: South Bay Feb. 13th: Black Mountain Mar. 6th: Carlsbad (Coastal or Inland depending on weather)
Apr 3rd: Pine Valley *subject to change without notice, review club’s website for up to date info.
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Friends Offering Discounts 14 Coaches Corner 14 Race Report 16 2010 Grand Prix Calendar 22
TriNews
RUnninG iN JANUARY CLUB MEETING Date and Location still pending.
Weekly Workout Calendar New Members TCSD Conversation Race Discounts
AZERbAijAN I
By Matt Peterson (as told to Barbara Javor)
suppose that Ismayilli, Azerbaijan, is consider what items I should bring, that is, similar to other small villages in the which would be the most useful to me over the developing world. People go about their next 27 months. Of the few items that I knew daily lives, much the same way that the would be essential were my running shoes. generations before them have. With limited Drawing on the memories of my former experiexposure to the outside world, most people’s ences abroad, I knew that running in a foreign attitudes remain very traditional and they place is not only a fun and interestbehave in ways that can best ing experience, but becomes be described as almost more important as a way to utilitarian. They deal with the stress and turmoil have few interacof adjusting to a new culture. So tions with foreignwith a notion of adventure and ers, especially those my Mizuno’s, I set off for from a country as far Azerbaijan. flung as the United When I first arrived in the States. And so it was country, I was immediately that I found myself in introduced to my new host this place with the family and told that I should audacious plan to run get to know them better. every morning. This task was made As a Peace Corps volunimmensely more difficult teer I had very little because at the time I choice as to where I would knew nothing about the nd or a r b serve, but keeping in line language. Of all the p a so erbaijan ard workout. z A r with the volunteer spirit, I requests that I had to la A popu eel after a h f u o cared very little about where how y mime to them, one of the easier ones I would be placed. As I prewas “May I run in the morning?” I figured that pared to begin my service, I had to carefully continued on page 3