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Kids train for triathlon

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 1:50pm
The St. Louis Post Dispatch has an article today about the Tri-Art Camp:
Asher Abrahms was taking a break from cycling one sticky morning, when a question was posed: Why not spend the summer in air conditioning, playing video games and watching TV? It'd be so much more ... comfy.

Asher, 11, of University City, crinkled his nose at the notion.

"That's what all America does," he said. "It's good to be fit." . . .

Health experts estimate that one in three American children today is overweight or, worse, obese. They're turning up in doctors' offices with heart disease, high blood pressure and Type II diabetes, ailments once seen in only adults.

Theresa Eppert, creator and coach of the Tri-Art Camp, is working to prevent Asher and other Junior Triathlon Team members at her Tri-Art Camp from becoming one of those statistics — now and in years to come.

At the camp, kids learn to sew, make pottery, fix their bicycles and, hardest of all, train for a triathlon.
Read the rest of the article here.
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