When European athletes were looking for new ways to challenge human endurance in the 1920s, they found inspiration in the rugged terrain of the French countryside, as well as the mighty Seine River. That is how the triathlon was born. In more recent times, Kathy Rainey's imagination was also sparked by equally stirring terrain found in and around Canyon Lake, an oasis boasting 80 miles of shoreline nestled in the Texas Hill Country between Austin and San Antonio, just minutes from New Braunfels ...