A Big Minor Celebrity Wednesday

PEZ profiles bike racing actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar, otherwise known as Zach on the early-1990s TV series "Saved By The Bell."

"Mark-Paul got into bike racing a few years ago when he bought a road bike to burn calories and train within a specific heart rate as a way to stay fit, and as a safer release for his adrenaline than racing motocross. ... He’s married with one child and another due in May, so his training schedule is similar to the rest of us working dads – 3-6 hours on the bike each week. He races for Team VeloWorx as a cat 4 in SoCal."

Runner's World has a feature on 42-year-old actor Tate Donovan, a runner and a triathlete. On his most challenging triathlon to date:

"The hardest one was one called the Wildflower Triathlon, which is just so hilly you would not believe it. It's in California and it's a 56-mile bike ride; it's just straight up and down these hills. Then the run is 13.1 miles, and it is just these trails. It's pretty much known as the toughest half Ironman there is. What made this specifically terrible was that I was shooting the movie 'Good Night and Good Luck'; it's a great movie and you should see it if you haven't. I play a character who's a chain smoker. All those newsmen smoked like demons. So I'd spend all day on the set smoking cigarettes, and I am not a smoker, and I can't bear smoking, and then I'd go out for these long runs. It was just brutal."