2020 Member Spotlight – Cheng Lee
How did you get involved in triathlons? I signed up for the Central Park Triathlon in 2017 with some friends from my running club who were also triathletes . Unfortunately....
2020 Member Spotlight – Troy Adkins
How did you get involved in triathlons? I’d been a runner for a couple of years just for health and fun. Nothing competitive though. I like to challenge myself to be a....
2020 Member Spotlight – Louise Twining-Ward
How did you get into open water swimming? I started open water swimming 10 years ago when a friend at my Masters swim club asked me to join them in....
Conversations Over Dinner
Dinner #1 – August 17, 2020 Of course on the first dinner of my idea for “Conversations over Dinner”, I said: “let’s meet out front of the restaurant and we....
2020 Member Spotlight – Adam Ruben
I was divorced in 2012-13 and accelerated my casual running and biking to keep myself sane. As I thought about my post-divorce life, in my early 40s, I thought I....
2020 Member Spotlight – Elise Serbaroli
How did you get involved in triathlons? I first got the idea about doing a triathlon in my head in 2014, when I was taking a gondola up to Quito’s....
2020 Member Spotlight – Jason Sreedhar
How did you get involved in triathlons? Honestly I couldn’t really tell you what initially put the thought in my head. I grew up playing soccer and basketball, but that....
Jason Sreedhar on Xtreme triathlon
What is an Xtreme triathlon? Extreme triathlon is basically a full-distance tri (iron-distance) that involves more extreme conditions. The prototype for extreme triathlon, the Norseman, is basically a full-distance race....
Michelle Thorne on Obstacle Course Races
How did you get into spartan races? I got into OCR (Obstacle Course Races) 5 years ago when I agreed to do a Tough Mudder… and little did I know....
2020 Member Spotlight – Justin Rowe
I got involved in Triathlon in 2016. A good friend of mine was diagnosed with Leukemia and the doctors gave him a list of things he shouldn’t do anymore. One....
2022 Member Spotlight – Mijal Altmann
Spotlight on Mijal Altmann: World History Teacher and NTP “Eager Beaver” Home town, and anything about it: Caracas, Venezuela. My family moved when I was 4 and I started Kindergarten....
2022 Member Spotlight – Charlie Taylor
How long have you been in the DC Tri Club? Why did you join? I joined DC Tri last year after several old soccer teammates of mine starting doing....
2022 Member Spotlight – Justin Sanak
First thing’s first: What is your favorite Beyonce song off the new album? The best thing about Queen Bey is how she takes our aspirations and magnifies them to a....
2024 Member Spotlight – Whitney (Whit) Kim
How did you get started in triathlons? I have a tendency to dive head first into fitness activities I am curious about even though I may not feel completely prepared,....
2024 Member Spotlight – Theo Varns
How did you get started in triathlons? I’d already been swimming and running since I was young and had been wanting to do a triathlon for a several years. I....