2020 Member Spotlight – Megan Tuncer
How did you get involved in triathlons? I was a pretty competitive soccer player up until college. After a combination of injuries and burnout my freshman year, I decided....
2020 Member Spotlight – Alyssa Morrison
How did you get into coaching? After a first career rehabbing oft-injured athletes as an occupational therapist, I made the transition into coaching to better help athletes minimize injury and....
2020 Member Spotlight – Brian Lee
How did you get involved in triathlons? In the summer of 2017, I had recently moved back to the DC area and started a new job. With all of the....
2020 Member Spotlight – Courtney Waltimyer
How did you get involved in triathlons? After training for my first (and supposed to be only) marathon, I passed Nations Tri on Ohio Drive, while athletes checked in their....
2020 Member Spotlight – Joseph Fengler
How did you get involved in triathlons? In the fall of 2017, I read a book, Fast Track Triathlete – Balancing a Big Life with Big Performance in Long-Course Triathlon,....
Liz Baugher on The Weather
Can you tell us what you do for work? I am a degree’d Meteorologist and have worked most of my time in research on ice clouds. Now I work for....
2020 Member Spotlight – Sheldon Roberts
How did you get involved in triathlons? Honestly, I had never even heard of Triathlon until a few years ago. Funnily enough, I met a girl who was into endurance....
2020 Member Spotlight – Kevin Bickard
How did you get involved in triathlons? I grew up running and swimming on school teams but I didn’t have a road bike or start seriously riding until 2017 when....
2020 Member Spotlight – Chelsey Berlin
How did you get involved in triathlons? I think it all dates back to a hip issue that was discovered and diagnosed when I started running frequently in 2012. On....
Amanda Melillo on SwimRun
How did you get into SwimRun? I love swimming and used to do a lot of trail running when I lived in upstate NY. SwimRun gave me a great opportunity....
2020 Member Spotlight – Brian O’Donnell
How did you get involved in triathlons? I had been a competitive swimmer since I was eight years old but I took a break from the sport after I graduated....
2020 Member Spotlight – Ali Davis and Joseph Cafferata
How did you get involved in triathlons? Joe: I used to work with Dena Richardson, who was a member of the club, and biked on her Fall Colors Ride from....
2020 Member Spotlight – Emily-Anne Patt
What was your first triathlon? Nations Tri in 2012(?). That one time the swim wasn’t cancelled. What is the biggest mistake you’ve made in a triathlon? I definitely got a....
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....