Features
The trademark
One would be hard-pressed to come up with an industry, activity or economy in which one single trademark is more powerful or over-arching than in triathlon, and the trade name is Ironman.
Rise and fall of a triathlon series
Races are hard to produce. The bigger the race, the bigger the headache; the greater the expense; the more hand-wringing the stress; the more sleep-depriving the risk.
The Superform
Yet again (as happens about every 18-months) someone asks about the beginnings of the bike technology that has make our sport unique. I thought I'd answer the question here, and with some photo representation.
Carb-Boom Palomar Challenge
On the same day the men's Olympic triathlon was contested a group of fifteen or so cyclists started up San Diego's Palomar Mountain.
Are Pro Triathletes Getting Stepped on? Or are They Getting Their Just Desserts?
Give Scott Tinley the task of beating up on a gaggle of pro triathletes on the race course and he's more than capable. Ask him to organize those same professionals into a union that will represent their best interests and you might as well ask him to raise the dead.
The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object, Spencer Smith and the ITU
The amount of 19-norandrosterone present in Smith's urine, reportedly calculated by UCLA's drug lab at an estimated 11 nanograms per milliliter, is above, according to most involved in the drug testing milieu, any amount which might naturally occur in one's system.
Frank Day recalls Ironman 1978
15 people in the world can say that they have taken part in the very first Ironman triathlon in Hawaii, but only 12 can say that they finished the event. Slowtwitcher and Power Crank inventor Frank Day is one of these 12 finishers and he talked to Slowtwitch about that long day.
The first Kona Ironman: A retrospective blog (Part III)
The final entry of Monty's retrospective blog, recounting the first-ever Hawaiian Ironman contested on the Kona course.
The first Kona Ironman: A retrospective blog (Part II)
Monty's 1981 Kona retrospective continues with the lead up to the starting gun.
The first Kona Ironman: A retrospective blog (Part I)
Mark "Monty" Montgomery competed in Kona's first Ironman, in 1981. His story parallels that of many of triathlon's pioneers. Here is Part I of his "blog" (26 years after the fact) recounting Kona's debut Ironman.
Mark Sisson says training is no guarantee of health.
You can race fast, and you can live long, but are achieving both goals a reasonable expectation?
