Retiring Retirement

Retiring Retirement A time for training and rest

This is the second in a two-part bicycle ride and a 26.22-mile series. marathon.

There is no tension in Perhaps one of the unexpected the man who em- benefits of being a grandfatherploys and enjoys both triathlete is the inspiration it is extended sabbaths providing for his progeny. and triathlons. “I had a bunch of grandkids

In fact, Tim Mad- in the living room and den’s commitment to asked them, ‘Who’d both the physical by like to learn to and spiritual may end up being a generational Robert swim laps?’” Madden said. “They liked the marathon as his children and LaCosta idea, and so I trained them to grandchildren are swim laps. literally following fast in his footsteps. “Then I said to one, ‘Would you like to ride with

When he was 60, the founder me this summer?’ Lo and beof Matchless Stove & Chimney hold, I had a group of them ridsays God “carried him” through ing with me. Next, their parents his Ironman competition – a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile Continued on Page 17 Tim Madden, an accomplished triathlete and local business owner, shares his love of physical training with the younger members of his family.

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