About WA8UNS Thomas Kimball in Sports

I began swimming and bicycling and running at a very young age. I swam competively as a young boy in Miami in the 1970's with the SWSC Sheeler Winton Swim Club which was tough and hard made made an impression on me to be hard on myself. I began doing 62.5 mile bike tours when I was 14 fourteen, then went onto running my first marathon at age 16 sixteen and also began bike racing in 1986 with the well known french amateur bike racing team call ACBB Athletic Club de Boulogne Billencourt Cyclisme. When I return back to the United States with the familiy in 1986 I had coutined to bike race for awhile then in 1988 I started doing Triathlons. And had enjoyed doing the old United States Triathlon Series (USTS) and in the early 1990's tried a few Ironman distance Triathlons ( 2.4 mile swim 112 mile bike 26.2 mile run ) tried 4 of these but only finished two of them so 2 out 4 not to bad,I sadly ended my sport of triathlon around 1995 or so as I was running into personal problems that also came to dealing with my learning disabilities and having to live and cope with them and try to live a productive life with them. So I have had to give up owning a bike or bicycle. I still run and try and do as many running events as I can afford. I still swim and work out exercise at a local Recreation Center to where I live in Danbury, CT I try and help others out where I can with my great past experience.