The Mythology of Triathlon

Dan Empfield explores what he calls the "mythology of triathlon."

"It variously surprises us with gifts of courage, sublimity, humility, endurance, pain and the overcoming of pain or, sometimes, the succumbing to it. It gives us the occasional failure along with the gift of working through to the other side. It gives us despair and the faith and strength to overcome it. It shows us things we did now know about ourselves. The Bible admonishes us to 'work out our salvation in fear and trembling.' Multisport allows us to work out our mythology in fear and trembling, and to exit the other side as heroes."