Triathlon book combines sound advice with humor
If you enjoy pushing yourself
up the ladder of personal sports
endurance challenges,
Katherine Vaz, senior editor for
Triathlon magazine, has the
perfect book for you.
“Cross-Training: The Com
plete Book of the Triathlon,”
(Avon paperback original
$9.95, 1984) is a 239-page
manual on the tastest-growing
sport since the hula hoop.
If you’ve had wild dreams of
some day reaching such levels
of fitness that you could actual
ly swim one mile, bike 16, and
run six without stopping, you’ll
welcome Vaz’s practical and
precision advice.
Along the path to physical
fitness and through chapters on
strategies, nutrition, game
plans and training schedules,
Vaz excites the would-be
triathlete.
There is humor in this book
too — and encouragement. If
the best race of your life is a
10-minutes per-mile jog, there’s
hope. If the thought of swimm
ing 100 yards in Leighton pool
makes you reach for a Twinkie,
Vaz offers step-by-step pointers
on inner-pacing and upper
body workouts, illustrated by
clear photographs to help get
you on the right path to fitness.
You can get pointers on how
to “lighten up” when it comes
to competing also. Vaz speaks
of a supportive, "we’re all in
this together,” atmosphere.
“Personal bests” become of
greater inportance than de
feating an “opponent.”
Vaz successfuly brings out
this triathlon camaraderie by
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detailing “the cutting edge of
triathloning.” She invites the
neophyte swimmer-biker
runner to cross-train. She
claims (substantiated by ex
amples of success stories in the
sport) that with proper tech
nique, coaching, physical and
mental rehearsal, and desire,
you can be on the starting line
of a short-distance triathlon
within about one year. “And
that’s given the same amount of
time you’re now spending train
ing in one sport,” she says.
Vaz’s book is also offers
guides to learning more about
sports medicine, the history of
triathloning and equipment
available including anything
from running shoes to swim
goggles to the best of Italian toe
clips.
A friendly word of warning.
Vaz lists eleven rules in Chapter
3 that should be paid attention
too. She insists that you follow
your personal physician’s ad
vice, cautions you about
"overload” work interval op
tions which engage you in
anaerobic activity like sprints.
Time, not distance, is crucial
for the novice because "doing
too much, too soon, is an unfor
tunate rule for beginning
triathletes," says Vaz.
She offers advice on getting a
sense of your own sports
abilities suggesting that you
push yourself, but just don't
‘kill’ yourself in the process.
As Katherine Vaz says,
"Train for one month and you’ll
feel the remarkable benefits.
Train for one year, and you'll be
ready for your first triathlon."
By Marilyn Osgood-Knight
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