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PEDs: The athlete's attorney
Imagine a famous athlete accused of drugs: Howard Jacobs was probably that athlete's lawyer. We've heard from USADA's CEO, and WTC's anti-doping director. Here's a look from a different vantage ...
Age group drug testing at Ironman
What's the drug testing at Ironman all about? We interviewed the director of its anti-doping program, Kate Mittelstadt.
Travis Tygart: America's top PED cop
Travis Tygart is America's top cop in the fight against performance enhancing drugs. He's USADA's CEO, formerly its general counsel. I asked him questions about its drug testing program for age-grou ...
2011 Wildflower long course
Dark horse Jesse Thomas shocked the field and Leanda Cave finished 5 seconds off Julie Dibens' course record. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson
Drugs and testing for AGers: Intro
We're going to talk this week about performance enhancing drugs for age group athletes. What's legal, what's ethical, testing, TUEs, everything you'll need to know regardless of your age or ability.
Elite and Age-Group Doping
This is the latest on the topic of policies, practices and WADA list updates for 2011.
Leadman latest bike-homage tri
Bahram Akradi, CEO of Life Time Fitness, built the Life Time Fitness triathlon, and the Race to the Toyota Cup, for U.S. pros. He's building Leadman Tri for himself.
TriStar
Tri-Star is one of several new series sprung from the 21st Century triathlon boom, all fighting for a permanent place on the sport’s calendar. Can they sell and execute their new brand of swim-bike- ...
70.3 California gallery
Great field, hot racing, the exultation, the struggle at Oceanside with Mirinda Carfrae and Andy Potts the 2011 champions. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
Oceanside pre race Gallery
The Rohto Ironman 70.3 California pros stayed cool and calm on a sunny day on the eve of battle at Oceanside. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson
WTC and the term Ironman
Slowtwitch's new IP editor Douglas Robinson explores the legal issues and ramifications regarding the Ironman trademark.
223 Arabian Kilometers
It doesn't have quite the ring of "1001 Arabian Nights," but the Abu Dhabi International Triathlon is equally unforgettable. I'm looking forward to returning to the Emirates for the second ...
Postcards from Tucson
Tucson, Arizona has become a big winter-spring training Mecca for elite, and up and coming, triathletes. Timothy Carlson photo gallery.
Triathlon America Conference (2011)
If you've noticed a conspicuous absence of Slowman over the past week or so, he's been at the sport's first annual trade conference, at the Estancia Resort in La Jolla, CA.
Protect your work
Jonathan Toker, our science editor, who wrote about inventing (our editors tend to have a history along those lines). As an addendum to Toker's piece, here's a bit of advice on protecting inventions.
An Athlete's Guide to Inventing
Slowtwitch science editor and SaltStick founder Jonathan Toker offers this guide for all the would be inventors who've had that "A-ha!" moment and were left wondering, "Now what do I do?"
Photos of 2010 – the Finish
After the all-out effort and pain of the race comes the unleashing of strong emotions at the finish of any triathlon. A photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
Photos of 2010 – the Run
The form of the triathlete runner is peculiarly pleasurable with an elegant equation of balanced power. A 2010 gallery by Timothy Carlson.
Photos of 2010 – the Bike
From around the globe, short course to ultra long, pavement to dirt, a selection of some of Timothy Carlson’s favorite bike shots of 2010
Best of 2010 – Portraits
In this 2010 gallery Timothy Carlson is focusing on some of triathlon’s most striking personalities in a variety of settings around the world.
Photos of 2010 - the Swim
A 2010 gallery of Timothy Carlson’s favorite images of triathlon’s first leg – the swim action. Enjoy these very fine shots.
The Rev3 Triathlon series
Charlie Patten started the Rev3 series full time in 2010 with a larger total purse than Lifetime Fitness and a bigger payout for his Quassy half than the WTC’s Ironman 70.3 Worlds. He says he’s on ...
2010 Ultraman Day Three
Amber Monforte led four women smashing Tina Bischoff's Ultraman race record set in 1989; Aussie Mike LeRoux came from Croc country to take down Jonas Colting.
2010 Ultraman Day Two
Amber Monforte smashed the women's race record for Day Two by 42 minutes on the 171-mile ride from Volcanoes to Hawi on Day Two of the 2010 man World Championship.
2010 Ultraman Day One
The opening salvo of a record breaking 26th year of the Ultraman World Championships. Day One's 10K swim and 90 mile ride swim. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.
