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She Found Her Confidence In Motion: 67-Year-Old Mass Athlete Heads To World Triathlon
Jane Carbone has swam, biked, and run her way through decades of races. And now, at 67, she’s taking her endurance global.
The Somerville resident will represent the U.S. at the World Triathlon Championships in Wollongong, Australia, on Oct. 17, competing in the 65-69 Sprint Triathlon division.
Carbone didn’t grow up an athlete.
“In school, I didn’t play sports,” she said. “But living in Boston, I always watched the marathon. In my 30s I decided to train for it.”
She started in 1992 as a bandit.
Hip and knee pain later led her to swimming and cycling, where she stumbled into the triathlo…
2 Young Women Who Graduated From Quinnipiac University Killed In Boston Crash
Two 25-year-old women were killed in a multi-car pileup over the weekend after a tow truck crashed into the ride-share SUV they were riding in on I-93 in Boston, police said.
Delanie Fekert, Floral Park, New York, and Urashi Madani, of North Andover, Massachusetts, were in the passenger seats of a 2007 Lexus RX400H driving north on the interstate around 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, when the driver quickly slowed down for unknown reasons near exit 20, Massachusetts State Police said.
A trailing tow truck slammed into the back of the SUV just before a 2012 Honda Civic crashed…
