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DECEMBER 2016
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Date, Location & Time: Wednesday December 7th 5:30pm Location: Qualcomm Auditorium Building Q 6455 Lusk Boulevard San Diego CA 92121
Schedule: 5:30 Food 6:15 Announcements 6:30 Special Presentation by Bob Babbitt 7:00 Ironman Kona viewing
MUSINGS ABOUT TRIATHLON INJURIES AND HEALING
Featuring:
KONA VIEWING PARTY
by Barbara Javor
DECEMBER CLUB MEETING
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Road Closure Update Coach’s Corner New Members
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TriNews
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TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
Member Profile Weekly Workout Calendar Congratulations IM Finishers TCSD Conversation
Have you heard the new version of the old joke about two Jewish women gossiping about their unmarried sons? First woman: “I’ve got good news and bad news about my son.” Second woman: “So tell me the bad news first.” First woman: “My son, he’s a triathlete.” Second woman: “Oy. Now he’ll never have time to see you. So what’s the good news?” First woman: “His chiropractor is a nice
Jewish girl, and his massage therapist is the daughter of a rabbi. I think they’re both single.” When you become an endurance athlete and practice the three sports of triathlon, injuries are bound to follow. Past injuries from other sports often come back to haunt you. We ponder when it’s okay to train through pain, and when that pain really is an injury that needs professional treatment beyond rest, ice, compression, elevation, and ibuprofen. The odds are high you’ll eventually seek professional help for persistent pains, but you won’t stop training and racing unless you really have to. After many years of dealing with nagging pains and injuries, I’ve come up with some truths as I see them. Running is fun but…: The sport of triathlon was the invention of a running club that added bicycling and swimming to make a running race more challenging. In retrospect, we would have been a lot healthier bunch if the inventors had been in a paddling club that added swimming and bicycling to their races without any running. If you investigate triathlon injuries on the Internet, you’ll find a consensus that most injuries and loss of training time are due to running. You’ll find that nearly 90% of continued on page 17