Standing atop the 10-foot water slide at Wilson’s Beach Club, 13-year-old Mariah Lucero had butterflies in her stomach — not because she’s afraid of heights or because she had never gone down the slippery track to the pool below. Lucero was nervous because she was about to begin her first triathlon.
Family gives youth triathlon high marks
Sunday, July 1, 2007 | 12:46 a.m. CDT;
updated 10:21 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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