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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018
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TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
We FEBRUARY TCSD EVENTS TRI ESSENTIALS Come find out what makes our Triathlon Club of San Diego AWESOME. Additionally, you will hear the latest and greatest on all things TCSD. This is a great opportunity to hear about all the member benefits of belonging to the TriClub such as free races each month, group workouts, open-water swims, track workouts, special race series for beginners, Aquathons at the beach, deep discounts with club sponsors, monthly meetings, social events, Ironman training, friendships, free food, awesome raffles, and more! Date: Monday, February 19th Location: Leucadia Pizza (UTC) 7748 Regents Rd San Diego, CA 92122
live on a blue planet covered in oceans. Not only do they provide us with gorgeous venues for triathlon racing, they also account for approximately half of the oxygen we breathe. Think about it: every second breath you take while you’re swimming, biking or running is because of oceans.
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News ing a glass shell with a slightly different pattern. Oxygenproducing single-celled glass sculptors: how cool is that? It turns out there are some surprising parallels between our miniscule ocean friends and triathletes. Keep reading to see which one matches your triathlon style? Phaeodactylum By Jernej Turnsek tricornutum: The Rebel. Doesn’t make a glass shell. Can transform into four different cell shapes. Fluid and adaptive. No race conditions come as a surprise, but can be overly ambitious. Chaetoceros debilis: The Socializer. Single cells can connect to each other to form spiral chains. Loves to compete and support fellow competitors. Always ready for post-race festivities. Expected race outcomes can vary, but the point is it’s always great to hang out with friends on a triathlon race. Thalassiosira pseudonana: The Pioneer. The first diatom with a fully sequenced genome. Smaller than most others, but full of surprises. Always experimenting, trying and testing new things, sometimes even on race day. Triceratium pentacrinus: The Artist. Intricately structured star-shaped glass shell anyone? T. pentacrinus knows how to be classy.
Marine Microbes:
Triathlete’s Best Friends Why? It’s the microbes. Tiny ocean inhabitants collectively known as phytoplankton capture sunlight and convert it into energypacked sugar molecules while producing oxygen in the process. Pretty sweet, right? In the ocean of phytoplankton, there’s one dominant group: diatoms. Not only do they produce oxygen, but they also use silicon dioxide or glass to build their cell walls. There’s thousands of different diatom species out there, each mak-
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