INSIDE THIS ISSUE
JUNE 2008
TCSD Contacts Volunteer Members Board Members Event Calendar Race Discounts
TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
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Gather up all those extra T-shirts. The exchange and donation will begin around 5pm, the same day and location of the June club meeting (date still pending). Donated item will go toward Father Joe’s Charities. Note: T-shirts should be in “like new” condition.
JUNE CLUB MEETING Guest and date pending. Check TCSD website for updates.
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Stretch of the Month Application
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I REMEMBER… HAVE TOO MANY T-SHIRTS IN YOUR CLOSET? GET READY FOR THE 1ST ANNUAL T-SHIRT EXCHANGE & DONATION EVENT!
Weekly Workout Calendar REAL Beginners Bike Ride Ironman Conversation
by Dee Dee McCann
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I will mark the first anniversary of Jim’s passing. Over the course of the past year, the public side of what Jim was all about and his contribution to the sport have been well documented by things like Don Norcross’s article in the Tribune, the memorial at the Shores and the many people who continue to wear his T-Shirt, the race directors who dedicated events to him over the past twelve months, the ceremony at Road Runner where we imprinted his running shoes in their Walk of Fame, and Bob Babbit renaming the club presidents’ award in Jim’s honor at the annual Endurance Sports Awards banquet. Master of the grill. My own experience of Jim’s loss over the past year has become more and more personal, evolving from the early sense of a shared loss, of grieving together with the hundreds of people he touched and encouraged, to become a more personal experience of missing him in little ways throughout each day. And my thoughts have turned increasingly from existential questions about
the meaning of his life and death to the more simple and private moments we shared. So, one way I’d like to mark the first anniversary of his passing is to share some of my more personal memories of Jim, the lifestyle he loved, and the club. I remember the first time I really noticed the definition in Jim’s calves. I was visiting him in San Diego, and we met up with Bob Doyle and Mary O’Shea for a Sunday morning run. I ran behind Jim the whole way and could look at nothing else! At the end of the run I made a joke about it, which embarrassed – and delighted — him. I remember, also before I moved to San Diego, how he used to talk for hours about the goings on of the club. At that time he was the race director, and he delighted in telling me all about the wacky races he and Barbara Javor used to come up with. Even back then, he was determined to constantly raise the bar on the quality of the experience at each event. He was constantly brainstorming new events, series, race formats, and – of course – social activities. continued page 3