Tucson offering “summer” year-round has been one of the main selling points as well as the culture that has been developed over the years.
Aidan Wohl Special to the Arizona Daily Star Typically, temporary stayers in Tucson are either snowbirds or desert admirers — or both. But for countless professional and collegiate tri-athletes, it has been their training station.
Having a long-term outside swim facility can be difficult to find for many triathletes looking for a place to train. Throughout the training season in Tucson, younger tri-athletes gain an uncanny and knowledgeable experience of learning from the best of the best — sometimes just by being in their presence. Recent athletes that have trained here include 2-time Kona silver medalist Lionel Sanders, men’s 75 tri-athlete and 3-time Ironman champion Bob Knuckey and many others. They have been coached in large part by Shepley.
“For me, I'd say it's a huge advantage just as someone getting into the sport, you have a lot of people that you can draw on for advice, so you know, if I'm like, ‘Oh, I don't even know what I should do for this type of workout,” Reeder said. “I can easily reach out to someone and get their advice, so it's nice to have so many people around you that know what they're doing, and I've done it for a lot longer than I have.
Despite having a large age range of the training triathletes, spanning from ages 18 to 80, the triathletes hold a ‘family” esque bond with one another with a similar goal in mind. Knuckey, a Toronto native who has been training in Tucson for the last 15 years and is currently competing in the 75-80 age range, has noticed such a bond.
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