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TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
C UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS APRIL CLUB TRIATHLON Date/Location/Time: Sunday, April 24th Fiesta Island 6am set-up. 7am start Format: 700 meter swim, 12.5 mile bike & 4 mile run.
APRIL CLUB DUATHLON Dates: April 16th Location: Palomar Mountain
Check the Club’s website, Facebook page and/or Yahoo group forum for the most up to date activity details.
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hakra parked the car outside his grandfa- watched a swim-run ther’s tofu factory where he stored his race at the beach organized by old triathlon bike. Stepping through the a local triathlon club. Enamored with the race, he joined the club and got hooked doorway to the factory was on the sport. After high like walking back in time. His school he left town for grandparents had come to university studies California as “Boat People” and joined refugees. They were the college Cambodians who still triathlon kept many of their team. He couldAsian customs and n’t have asked for old-fashioned a better way to ways. Not long spend four years. after settling in He was now in San Diego, Chakra’s his senior year grandfather bought an A tale of fiction by Barbara Javor with his head full of old ice cream plant and plans. After graduating with a business degree, converted it into a tofu factory. He expected young relatives to work in the factory he wanted to work just part-time at the factory in when they weren’t in school. He had hardly order to train to compete in an Ironman triathlon. upgraded it over the decades. He wanted the bragging rights and the Ironman Unlike his grandparents, Chakra’s parents were logo he would have tattooed on his calf. Then totally modern. Chakra’s mother, Thavy, came from he’d work full-time on converting the old tofu facCambodia as a teenager and had embraced the tory into a real money-making firm. His senior American lifestyle as soon as she learned to speak project was to prepare a business plan to do just English. She rebelled against her parents by disap- that. Chakra just had to convince his grandfather. pearing from the tofu factory, hanging out with He thought now that he was home on break it her friends, and surfing. On her 18th birthday she might be a good time to broach the subject before came home with a tattoo. Chakra took after her, his bike ride. Ten minutes later, Chakra knew it was absolutely but Thavy kept a thread to the past by acknowledging her Cambodian heritage. Chakra regarded the wrong time to bring up the subject. When his himself as just plain American with his eyes only grandfather asked him what he would do after graduation, Chakra described his intention to work on the future. One day while he was in high school, Chakra continued on page 16
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