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The author has beautifully captured this journey from beginning to end. -- International Sociology Cohen's work is path breaking in its qualitative examination of fathers and IRONMAN events ... The work is an excellent example of how various qualitative methodologies, which included participant interviews, surveys and textual analysis of extensive online formats, can be woven together to create a detailed and textual portrait of trials and tribulations of Iron Dads. -- Sport in American History Iron Dads is the best inside look at triathlon culture in academia to date. Not only does this pathbreaking book detail the particulars of what it is like to be immersed in the grueling and yet rewarding culture of triathlon, it illustrates how participants must manage competing social roles, obligations, and identities away from the sporting field. Iron Dads is essential reading for qualitative researchers. --Michael Atkinson Professor and Acting Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs) at The University of Toronto Lucid, accessible, and engaging, Iron Dads reveals a simultaneously lauded but worrying athletic world whose tentacles inevitably affect family and workplace. --Kevin Young University of Calgary

Lucid, accessible, and engaging, Iron Dads reveals a simultaneously lauded but worrying athletic world whose tentacles inevitably affect family and workplace. --Kevin Young University of Calgary Iron Dads isthe best inside look at triathlon culture in academia to date. Not only does this pathbreaking book detail the particulars of what it is like to be immersed in the grueling and yet rewarding culture of triathlon, it illustrates how participants must manage competing social roles, obligations, and identities away from the sporting field. Iron Dads isessential reading for qualitative researchers. --Michael Atkinson Professor and Acting Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs) at The University of Toronto Iron Dads is the best inside look at triathlon culture in academia to date. Not only does this pathbreaking book detail the particulars of what it is like to be immersed in the grueling and yet rewarding culture of triathlon, it illustrates how participants must manage competing social roles, obligations, and identities away from the sporting field. Iron Dads is essential reading for qualitative researchers. --Michael Atkinson Professor and Acting Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs) at The University of Toronto Lucid, accessible, and engaging, Iron Dads reveals a simultaneously lauded but worrying athletic world whose tentacles inevitably affect family and workplace. --Kevin Young University of Calgary Iron Dads isthe best inside look at triathlon culture in academia to date. Not only does this pathbreaking book detail the particulars of what it is like to be immersed in the grueling and yet rewarding culture of triathlon, it illustrates how participants must manage competing social roles, obligations, and identities away from the sporting field.Iron Dadsisessential reading for qualitative researchers. --Michael Atkinson Professor and Acting Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs) at The University of Toronto Lucid, accessible, and engaging, Iron Dadsreveals a simultaneously lauded but worrying athletic world whose tentacles inevitably affect family and workplace. --Kevin Young University of Calgary

Lucid, accessible, and engaging, Iron Dads reveals a simultaneously lauded but worrying athletic world whose tentacles inevitably affect family and workplace. --Kevin Young University of Calgary

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DIANA TRACY COHEN is an associate professor of political science at Central Connecticut State University, in New Britain. She is herself a nine-time IRONMAN  finisher with over forty marathon completions.

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