Inside Triathlon: Dave Scott’s Search For Meaning
- By Courtney Baird
- Published Dec 16, 2010
- Updated Jul 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM UTC
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott trail running in Boulder, Colo. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott’s secret to aging gracefully is to keep the intensity up in his workouts. When he works out, he works out hard. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott’s secret to aging gracefully is to keep the intensity up in his workouts. When he works out, he works out hard. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott’s secret to aging gracefully is to keep the intensity up in his workouts. When he works out, he works out hard. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott’s secret to aging gracefully is to keep the intensity up in his workouts. When he works out, he works out hard. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott cycling: Exercise is a “morphine-like endorphin feeling to him,” he says. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott cycling: Exercise is a “morphine-like endorphin feeling to him,” he says. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott cycling: Exercise is a “morphine-like endorphin feeling to him,” he says. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott cycling: Exercise is a “morphine-like endorphin feeling to him,” he says. For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott lifting weights: The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott lifting weights: The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
For more on how Scott is finding a place for himself in the new age of triathlon, check out the Jan/Feb issue of Inside Triathlon, on newsstands now. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott still has lingering injuries from a cycling accident he endured in 2009, such as a still swollen finger. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
The accident shattered his left wrist, fractured and dislocated his left ring finger leaving a bone projecting through the skin, fractured his left ulna, shattered his left scapula, and caused a major hematoma to his right femur. Scott never lost consciousness. As he lay face-up on the street he thought, “Oh, God, I’m going to get so out of shape.” The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
The six-time Ironman world champion says he can still push himself as hard as ever. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
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Dave Scott's Search For Meaning
Scott at the pool: A successful coach before he was world champion, Scott now makes his living that way. Click here to subscribe to Inside Triathlon.
Inside Triathlon recently spent some time with six-time Ironman world champion Dave Scott to see how he’s adjusting to a new era of triathlon. Check out our story in the January/February issue of Inside Triathlon, as well as some of the photos, taken by Nick Salazar, that were left on the cutting room floor.
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Courtney Baird
Courtney Baird is the editor-in-chief of Inside Triathlon magazine.
