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...Mark Shagena: the 1986 Ironman, a sprinter from Michigan who has already proved to be an inspiration after last weekend's performance...
Fellow Tri-Captain Bill Wolff elaborated: the honor was "created in the image of the swim team's 'Ironman Award' for the most obnoxious freshman...
Last year, 40-minute ironman performances were the norm, as then-Coach Frank McLaughlin often let his starters go the distance. Some 50 times last season, a Cantab logged a 40-minute performance...
Webster--who became the first Harvard player to play a full 40 minutes this season after 50 such ironman performances by last year's squad--added eight points of his own in the final four minutes to seal the victory...
...began when a bunch of jocks in Hawaii fell to arguing about which was the tougher sport, biking, running or swimming. Out of the quarrel was born the first Ironman Triathlon: 15 seemingly crackbrained humans on a 2.4-mile ocean swim followed by a 112-mile bike race followed by a 26.2-mile marathon run. That was in 1978. This year, with the distances in many cases shortened to a so-called tinman's grasp, 1.2 million Americans are expected to take part in 2,100 triathlons. The event is being called the fastest-growing participatory sport in the nation...