- Now a professional elite triathlete, Bertine is young, energetic, and funny and has already been featured in ESPN: The Magazine, Triathlete, and Wildcat Online.- In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Jim Bouton's classic Ball Four, Bertine humorously and honestly dishes the dirt about the little-known dark side of a seemingly glamorous world.

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