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Unlikely: A Rookie's Ironman Triathlon Diary

Andromeda Romano-Lax

A 50-ish woman's physical and mental challenges on the way to Race Day

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  • Andromeda Romano-Lax

    Novelist and Book Coach, author most recently of two psychological thrillers, WHAT BOYS LEARN ('26) and THE DEEPEST LAKE ('24), as well as five other historical, literary, and speculative novels. Slow triathlete. AULA MFA alum. www.romanolax.com.

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