First Triathlons -- David Weingard

by Gail Waesche Kislevitz

David Weingard has a passion for running and doing triathlons. He ran the 1980 New York City Marathon when he was just seventeen years old and did his first triathlon in 1991 when the sport was still being discovered on the East Coast. His athletic life took a sudden crash in the summer of 2000 while he was training for an eight-stage survival triathlon. Overly fatigued, he went to the doctor and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Never the quitter, he learned how to live lift as a diabetic and went on to run the New York City Marathon ten weeks after the devastating news...