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Set for Sept. 2
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
The Back Mountain will be well repre-
sented in the 1984 Wyoming Valley Back
Mountain Triathlon which will get underway
at 8 a.m on Sunday, Sept. 2, with an 8/10-mile
swim in Harveys Lake followed by a 40-
kilometer bike ride through the Endless
Mountains and ending with a 10-kilometer run
through the Back Mountain with the finish at
College Misericordia.
At least 25 or 30 of the entrants are from
the Back Mountain area, ranging in age from
12 years of age to over 50. Some have
competed in the triathlon before, some have
participated in runs or marathons while
others are first-time participants in such an
event. Students, teachers, doctors, office
employees, administrators, men and women
have entered and all of them training in one
way or another to get in condition for the
triathlon.
Jerry Kavanagh of Haddonfield Hills, an
employee of Commonwealth Telephone,
decided to enter this year’s triathlon, but had
a problem — he didn't know how to swim.
And, since swimming was one of the events,
Kavanagh did something about it. In Febru-
ary of this year, he enrolled in the beginnners
Learn-To-Swim class at the YMCA. Now he
swims a mile a day four or five days each
week.
Running was the easiest for Kavanagh
since he ran in the Washington D.C. Mara-
thon in 1981 and 1982 and in the New York
Marathon in 1981, ’82 and ’'83. He runs year-
round, five or six days weekly, averaging
four to six miles each day. He usually runs
early in the morning.
Biking wasn’t too dificult although he had
not ridden a bike for a long time until the
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past year. Last week he did his best time and
distance when he rode 36 miles, much of that
hilly terrain.
Kavanagh is not the only member of the
family entered in this year’s triathlon. His 13-
year-old daughter, Kelley, will also partici-
pate. Kelley has been training regularly with
her Dad and, to date, has progressed beyond
the distances scheduled for the triathlon.
A student at Dallas Junior High School,
Kelley is a former member of a swim team
so she finds that category relatively easy. She
rides her bike every day and has no problem
racking up the miles. It is the running that
Kelley finds most difficult.
“Actually, it’s rather boring. You don’t
seem to achieve anything,” she said.
Charles Eckman of Dallas and Peter
Eckman, Kingston, are brothers, sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Hanford Eckman of the Back
Mountain, and will both compete in the event.
“We work best as a team,” said Charles.
“Now it turns out we will be in the same age
group competing against one another.”
Charles said his brother took the event more
seriously than he did, that he actually was
Peter's trainer. Both of them have jogged
and ran since college, but Charles runs one
race each year, the four-mile race held in the
Back Mountain. ‘Peter has run in the New
York City Marathon and the New Jersey
Marathon.
Working eight to 10 hours a day makes it
difficult for them to train, but they get in at
least four or five days per week. They work
out early in the morning by running, but
swim or bike in the evening.
Peter was the instigator for their entry in
the triathlon, according to Charles. Swim-
ming is a challenge for Charles although
Peter has done a lot of swimming, but not
competitively. It’s also a first time for both of
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them to do competitive biking.
“We're not training just for the fun of it,
but hope to finish in the top fourth of the
Charles. “The triathlon is in our own back-
yard, that's probably why we do it.”
Dr. William Burak entered to get into good
physical condition. He said being a physician
did not give him the time to get in the
training he should. His goal is to discipline
himself into good training habits.
He has been doing at least two of the events
each day and tries to do the two of them
consecutively to improve his stamina and
endurance. If he does the biking and running
one day, the next day he will do the
swimming and the running and continues in
that pattern.
Dr. Burak can now swim a mile without
tiring and run seven or eight each day he has
been increasing his speed and endurance. He
said biking is his strongest sport and he is
most comfortable with it. Swimming is more
natural so he didn’t have too much of a
problem with that, but running is the least
desirable for him.
He swims a mile every three or four days,
bikes 25 to 35 miles over hilly terrain and
runs six or seven miles every time he goes
out.
Last year he became interested through a
friend, Dr. Krivenko, and entered, but did
only the swimming and biking. This year
Burak put away his tennis raquet and turned
away from other forms of recreation to start
training so he could finish the three events.
Raelene Daring, teacher, and daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Daring, likes all three
events of the triathlon. She says it's a good
way to get in top physical condition and it is
also a challenge.
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Raelene does at least one of the events
every day and, when possible, does two of
and runs four to eight miles at a time. She
bikes about 70 miles a week, 25 to 30 miles at
one time and swims three quarters to a mile
and half about three times a week.
She worked at a water station last year and
while there she decided it would be fun to try
different times during the day.
Robyn Jones, teacher and coach at Dallas,
is a resident of Harveys Lake. Last year she
would be more fun to enter so she did.
She has done a minimal amount of training,
but swimming came natural to her and she
has been running throughout the summer.
Robyn considers running her strong point.
Biking is her most difficult so she feels she
has to train more on that part of the event.
having to stop. “If I like it, next year I'll try
harder,’ she stated.
Durkin, Paul Goeringer, Brian McCartney,
Harveys Lake, plus others not reported to us,
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