Swimming race

Loin pain developed 9 h after a 200-m swimming race, leading to acute renal failure. CT 24h after intravenous pyelography (IVP) showed patchy contrast enhancement. The details are given in Chap. 2, Sect. 2. 

As shown in Fig. 54, the types of exercise taken by the patients consisted of a track race (a short-distance sprint such as a 200-m race), soccer, a swimming race, baseball, weightlifting, and a bicycle race, in all of which an intense power output per second or per minute is repeated. However, a single 100-m race was less likely to cause exercise-induced acute renal failure (ALPE). Several 200-m or 100-m races frequently caused ALPE. Repeated anaerobic exercise may be a risk factor. 

Short track Soccer Swimming Running Baseball Bicycle race Physical training Marathon Weightlifting Skiing Press-ups/sit-ups Quarrel Flying a light plane... 

In the Death Valley Swim Meet, Maria could use the backstroke or sidestroke in the first race, whichever was best for her. 

Ironman. A triathlon race held once a year in Hawaii that includes an ocean swim, a bike ride, and a marathon foot race. The event takes its name from a comic book character with great athletic endurance. Our quarterback is a regular ironman when it comes to getting that ball down the field. 

Ironman annual triathlon race including an ocean swim, a bike ride, and a marathon foot race... 

See Vincent Cheng, Joyce, Race and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1995) John McCourt, ed., James Joyce in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Pascale Casanova, Samuel Beckett Anatomy of a Literary Revolution, trans. Gregory Elliott (London Verso, 2006) Kim McMullen, Flann O Brien s Postmodern Dialogue with Irish Tradition, Novel 27 (1993) 62-84 and Gregory Dobbins, Constitutional Laziness and the Novel Idleness, Irish Modernism, and Flann O Brien s At Swim Two Birds, Novel 42 (2009) 86-108. 

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