login
View profile
Add to friends
Go to training log
Go to race log
Send a message
View albumScott Tinley's articles
The Body in Sport - Part 1
Part One: On Speed, Desire and Age. There are some advantages to running slowly. Now, give me a minute here and I'll try to think of one. Watching Ourselves Do the Things We Do
"Fandom" in triathlon compared to other sports. If you're a sports fan and simply love to follow sport, why pick a sport that may offer a view of the start, the finish and a few moments in between?Soul Brothers - Is Triathlon a Religion?
Sport and religion both celebrate group values and offer excitement. Sport and religion are grounded in disciplined practice, a devotion to a cause, and a belief in the unseen. And both require faith.The Dream vs. The Reality
Balancing the triathlete you are with your vision for the triathlete you could be.The Back Nine
Tinley on triathlon, aging, and the attitude of a masters athleteLance A. Little, Lance-a-Lot
Tinley's take on the motives behind Lance Armstrong's return to triathlon and what it will mean for the sportWorking Stiff Part 2: Working Out and the Empires of Deception
Scott Tinley on working to play, or playing at work.Working Stiff - Part 1
After all these years, had sport become too much like work that it was no longer a respite from that which is labeled work? Or at least feels like it at times?Anatomy of an Injury
Our response to injuries are perhaps more telling of our personalities than our plans to heal them. It’s not so much a case of denial as it is disbelief. We are multisport athletes. We don't get hurt.A Question of Mettle
The grand pull to Kona is both a product of our sport's mythology, marketing, and the intangible desires that each create. The More Things Change
Stripped of its three-figure entry fees and five figure bikes, when the gun goes off it's still a bunch of crazies doing three sports for a thousand reasons.Return to Sender - Reconsidering the Meaning of Play and Sports
As endurance athletes, by definition we must go to our borders to find our center. There is meaning in suffering, we tell ourselves, but not in stupidity.
Show Per Page
As the sport of triathlon gained in popularity Scott turned pro in 1983. Between those early years and his move back to the amateur ranks in 1999, Tinley competed in over 400 triathlons, winning close to 100 of them, making him one of the top three winning triathletes of all time.
He won the Ironman World Championship twice (1982, 1985) and the Ironman World Series three times. He was inducted into both the Triathlon and Ironman Hall of Fame upon retirement in 1999.
Near the end of his professional career he helped found and develop the sport of offroad triathlon and continues to co-own and manage the longest running offroad triathlon in the world, Scott Tinley’s Adventures in San Luis Obispo, California.
The Body in Sport - Part 2