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Triathlons are for everyone

Who can do a triathlon? "Anyone," says Dr. Steve Jonas, a professor of preventive medicine at SUNY/Stony Brook and the author of Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals (Norton).

Well, almost anyone. There's that little matter of being able to stay afloat in the water.

"Of course, you have to be able to swim," he adds. "But anybody can ride a bike, and anybody can run if they don't try and...

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