Gives practical advice on training for the swimming, cycling, and running portions of a triathlon, discusses race strategy, and looks at equipment, clothing, and safety precautions

Scott Tinley's Winning Triathlon

Politics & Social Sciences

Tinley, Scott

Sociology

Contemporary Books

Finding the Wheel's Hub: Tales and Thoughts on the Endurance Athletic Lifestyle

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Trimarket

Training for and completing a triathlon is one of the most grueling life experiences anyone can have, requiring a degree of personal commitment, individual strength and iron will that few people possess. A true test of your ability to find, and then surpass your physical, mental and emotional limits, the only real analogue to triathlon…is the challenge of life itself. In Finding Triathlon, professional athlete Scott Tinley explores the world inside and outside endurance sports, seeking answers to age-old questions. Part memoir, part cultural exploration, Tinley uses the language of sports to speak universal truths. Told through anecdotes, both personal and shared, with a critical, inquisitive, and often humorous interpretation of a life lived through the medium of sports, Tinley reflects on the sport of triathlon, honest competition, and the drive to improve ourselves as a whole, looking to understand how and why we live our lives. Finding Triathlon is not a self-help book, and it’s not a fitness guide. Nor is it just about triathlons and triathletes. It’s about a lifestyle, a perspective, a way of looking at the world and its challenges, as you strive to better yourself and better understand yourself. Whether you’re training for the next big race or you’ve never run a mile in your life, Finding Triathlon speaks to the champion in each of us, demonstrating how making the decision to push ourselves to succeed in our dreams can affect our life, our world, and our future.

Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World

Hatherleigh Press

Racing The Sunset: An Athlete's Quest For Life After Sport

Professional triathlete SCOTT TINLEY was the California golden boy, a two-time winner of the world's most trying endurance race, the Hawaii Ironman. For twenty years he defined the sport with his world-champion racing abilities, good looks, and sense of style. Well known, well respected, well imitated, he spent half his life immersed in theintensive training that he needed to stay on top. But age finally caught him, and no amount of training would help. He stopped winning races and watched his performance slip. And, as with many top athletes, one day Scott Tinely realized his stay at the top was over. It was a crushing realization. Tinley, an introspective man, a family man with a wife and children to support, began to think about the new journey that lay before him, and he applied the same discipline he used as the world's top endurance athlete to learn how to face the rest of his life. It was a journey filled with false starts and heartrending change. For one thing, Tinley knew he was not alone, and through discussions with the likes of Bill Walton, Cal Ripken Jr., Eric Heiden, Greg Lemond, Jerry Sherk, Alberto Salazar, Steve Scott and many other top athletes, Tinley has carved a path that anyone facing a major change in life will want to follow. Racing the Sunset will do for athletes what Passages did for an entire generation.

Racing the Sunset: An Athlete's Quest for Life After Sport

Biographies & Memoirs

UNKNO

What happens when the fans stop cheering and it's time to grow up? Facing change just might be the hardest game in town.

A seventh-generation Californian, Scott Tinley led the quintessential Golden State dream. As he grew from beach rat to lifeguard to a recreational administration major, it seemed only natural to him that he would try to parlay the athletic skills gleaned from this idyllic lifestyle into a profession as one of the best triathletes in the world. For twenty years, his skill, tenacity, and devil-may-care attitude guided him along the path. But when age took hold of his legs, and no amount of training would help, his athletic gold rush went bust. Cracks in his psyche began to show, as if beneath it all—like much of California itself—his athletic life had been built on a fault. Always introspective and inquiring, Tinley threw himself headlong into athlete retirement and the larger issues of life transition and change. His new journey, driven by his quest for personal growth and healing, was filled with pain, false starts, and heartrending intimacies. It led him to hundreds of other retired professional athletes who would openly discuss their own triumphs and tragedies. With much discipline, Tinley completed one of the most thorough athlete research projects ever attempted, and befriended such superstars as Bill Walton, Eric Heiden, Greg LeMond, Jerry Sherk, Steve Scott, and Rick Sutcliffe. Along the way he uncovered secrets about himself and the process of change, turmoil, and final acceptance, all shared openly and eloquently in Racing the Sunset. This book will do for athletes of every level what Passages did for an entire generation. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Racing the Sunset: How Athletes Survive, Thrive, or Fail in Life After Sport

Skyhorse

In the Wake of Our Past

Wars come home with those who fight them--in a body bag, marred by injury, or living with a damaged soul. In 1973, Phin Davis returns from the Vietnam War with a stop at the Denver VA Hospital while fighting haunting images of death and struggling to find a personal reason for being alive. His father, Harry, had returned from war in 1945 after the USS Indianapolis delivered parts for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and then sank, giving up so many of its sailors to the "gray men" below the surface. Still, Harry makes his living from the sea as a commercial fisherman. Completing the triad is Johnny Cobb, Harry's self-adopted "brother," who is the great-grandson of an African slave. Nurtured by Native American spiritualism, Cobb helps them both heal despite tragedy in his own young life. Johnny has never experienced war, but he protects Vietnam vets and gives them work, kinship, and solace as each follows his own physical and psychological path to wellness. Set in the American South between 1950 and 1973, In the Wake of Our Past weaves multiple tales of self-discovery after loss as each character learns how not be defined by personal tragedy. Phin, Harry, Johnny and their extended family and friends are not just survivors, but echoes of war's thunder who learn to love again and have peace in their lives.

Literature & Fiction

Montezuma Publishing

""Triathlon"" takes a fascinating look at the evolution of the sport through essays, interviews, and photographs dating back to its very beginnings. The first triathlons were highly competitive but casual -- in contrast to the major media events that many of the races are today. Sidebars throughout the book contain profiles of triathletes and anecdotes of the sport over time.

Triathlon: A Personal History

Velo Press

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Scott Tinley's Winning Triathlon

Finding the Wheel's Hub: Tales and Thoughts on the Endurance Athletic Lifestyle

Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World

Racing the Sunset: An Athlete's Quest for Life After Sport

Racing The Sunset: An Athlete's Quest For Life After Sport

Racing the Sunset: How Athletes Survive, Thrive, or Fail in Life After Sport

In the Wake of Our Past

In the Wake of Our Past

Triathlon: A Personal History