Winter Motivation

This is actually from a review of an Endless Pool but I like the following bit so much I clipped and post it from time to time when the weather is starting to get oppressive.

In fact, I submit:

Winter : Triathletes :: Crushing pressure and heat : Coal 

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Kenny Glah and Jan Wanklyn have one of these pools. They've got a StarTrac treadmill and a Computrainer as well. All down in their basement. They can do an Ironman down there. Longtime triathletes hate racing Glah in the early season. He emerges from his stealth basement like an axe murderer--not having been seen by any living soul (save his family) for three months--fit as a fiddle and ornery from cabin fever. "He does so much training down in that basement," says Tinley, "you could mine salt down there."

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