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NOVEMBER 2015
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TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
S NOVEMBER CLUB TRIATHLON Date/Location/Time: Saturday, Nov 14th Fiesta Island 6am set-up. 7am start Format: 700 meter swim, 12.5 mile bike & 4 mile run.
CLUB MEETING KONA VIEWING PARTY w/ Heather Jackson Wednesday November 18th Location: QUALCOMM Auditorium (Irwin M Jacobs Lecture Hall) 5775 Morehouse Drive San Diego, CA 92121 Check the Club’s website, Facebook page and/or Yahoo group forum for the most up to date activity details.
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am stopped running to gaze at the road bordering the riverside path he was following. Everything seemed out of place. The cars were all older models. Everyone in the park wore clothes and hairstyles long out of style. Several bicyclists pedaled by on old-fashioned clunkers. Normally the park was popular with A tale of fiction by Barbara Javor runners on a Saturday afternoon, but Sam saw only one approaching. He wore tube socks and outdated running shoes. ‘What’s wrong with this picture? It’s like a scene from fifty years ago. What was I doing just before I seemed to go back in time?’ He couldn’t remember. He rubbed his head to feel for a knot or bruise indicating he had a fall that caused amnesia, but found nothing. As he watched the runner approaching, Sam realized he knew the college-age man. He was Ken Rogers, Sam’s former running coach at the university. When Sam graduated five years earlier, the coach was close to retirement age. ‘This is so strange, like the movie, Back to the Future.’ Sam was clueless how he’d returned to his future. He was in town for his first visit to the university since graduation, and he decided to go for a run.
Then boom! Somehow he slipped into the past, years before he was born. If he could figure out how he got there, then maybe he could figure out how to get back. Perhaps his future coach could give him a clue. Sam stepped back onto the path as Ken Rogers was passing. “Mind if I join you?” Sam asked as he started to jog. “Sure, why not? Do you run for the U? I haven’t seen you before.” “No, I’m in town for a visit.” “What’s that written on your shirt? TRI-ATH-LON.” He read the syllables slowly. ‘Uh-oh, think fast,’ Sam thought. “Three sports in one race—swimming, bicycling, and running. Some people I know like that kind of competition.” Ken Rogers waved his hand dismissively. “It’ll never catch on. It’s hard enough to find time to run, let alone practice two other sports.” Sam needed to change the subject to find out why he was here. He recalled Coach Rogers had stopped competing in college because of an injury, but he couldn’t remember more. “What’s your trick for staying injury-free?”
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