We Noticed: Slowtwitch Team Applications Open, McNulty Surprises at UCI Worlds, Frodeno Fast in Berlin and More

Applications Open for Slowtwitch GOODLIFE Racing Team

Slowtwitch GOODLIFE Racing is a team for U.S. based triathletes and gravel racers – one kit, one community, any start line you toe. It’s open to athletes of all levels – newbies, 30-year vets, the human who isn’t sure they will finish and the superstar chasing the podium. The team is a group of like-minded people who seek personal bests while helping the person next to them.

You can sign up for the new team here.

All you need to do to become part of the team is to buy a race kit – either a tri suit or a cycling kit (top and bottom). Team kits drop on Oct. 5, 2026, registration for the team closes Nov. 1, 2026. Kits will arrive Feb. 15, 2027.

Other benefits to the team include:

• A private team portal on the Slowtwitch Forum
• Beef and nutrition shipments – team members get free Certified Piedmontese beef shipments and two GOODLIFE Nutrition shipments throughout the year
• Monthly team webinars with special guests
• Race deals and team activations
• Free swag and deep member discounts across the Slowtwitch Shop
• Team partners include: ROKA Multisport, Zoot, Quintana Roo, Lever Movement, Shimano, Lazer Helmets, Gravel Worlds/ USAT Gravel Tri Nationals, Goodlife Cyclery, Slowtwitch Shop
• Team activations at: Oceanside 70.3, Sea Otter Classic, Unbound Gravel, Omaha 70.3, Gravel Worlds and USAT Gravel Tri Nationals, IRONMAN World Championship

The only rule on the team? No Assholes. We protect the qualify of the community above all else – fast or slow doesn’t matter, kindness does.

McNulty Takes UCI Road World Championships

With his breakaway victory, Brandon McNulty became the first American man to win the UCI Road World Championships in 33 years. Not since Lance Armstrong won the 1993 worlds has an American man won the title. McNulty spends most of his racing with UAE Team Emirates-XRG as a super-domestique for Tadej Pogačar, agreed to dye his hair blond if his team leader won another Tour de France title this year. Debating as to whether or not to cut his hair off or re-dye it heading into the race in Montreal, he went with the light locks, providing a unique look for his huge win on Sunday.

McNulty broke away with 32 km to go, and his countryman Matteo Jorgensen (a fellow super-domestique for Visma-Lease a Bike’s Jonas Vingegaard), did a masterful job of wreaking havoc with the chase group. Heading into the final lap, with about 10 km of riding to go, the group came within 10 seconds of McNulty, but he managed to hang on through the final climb, then use his masterful time trial skills (he was fourth at the TT world championships the week before) to stay clear.

On Saturday Demi Vollering (NED) outsprinted Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney to win the women’s road race. Vollering became only the second woman (after Annemiek van Vleuten in 2022) to win cycling’s Triple Crown, having won the Giro d’Italia Women and the Tour de France Femmes earlier this year.

In addition to McNulty’s big win on Sunday, another American, Ashlin Barry took the men’s U23 race on Friday. While Barry represents the United States, he is originally from Toronto and has dual Canadian/ American citizenship. His family has a long history in the sport – his father, Michael Barry, rode for US Postal and Discovery Channel with Lance Armstrong. His mother, Dede Demet-Barry was a former junior road world champion and won the silver medal in the time trial at the Athens Olympics in 2024. She won the Montreal World Cup cycling race in 2002 on many of the same roads this year’s worlds took in, on a Mariposa bike built by Ashlin’s grandfather, Michael Barry Sr.

As a follow to our news item from Friday – the US Team was kitted in Rapha gear for the world championships.

Laundry and Russell Awesome in Augusta

After the men’s pro race had to be cancelled in Jones Beach, IRONMAN quickly offered the displaced men a quick relocation option and a $500 travel stipend to get to Sunday’s IRONMAN 70.3 Augusta race. The Augusta race was initially supposed to be a pro women’s race, with the men competing in New York. One big name who didn’t make the trip to Augusta was Lionel Sanders – he reportedly was sick when he finished third at IRONMAN 70.3 Cozumel the previous weekend, so it’s not a surprise that he opted not to make yet another trip on the weekend.

Canada’s Jackson Laundry rode clear of the rest of the field on his way to a convincing win, getting to the line almost five minutes up on American Ari Klau, with American Nicholas Chase rounding out the podium.

In the women’s race American Lydia Russell used the days fastest bike and run splits to dominate the all-American women’s podium – Grace Alexander ended up second with Samantha Skold taking third.

Men’s Pro Results

Women’s Pro Results

Jan Frodeno Runs 2:23:33 at Berlin Marathon

Triathlon legend Jan Frodeno is obviously still pretty fit – this weekend the 45-year-old ran an impressive 2:23:33 at the Berlin Marathon. He had targeted 2:25, but managed to negative split the race to finish ahead of his goal – he went through the halfway point in 1:12:03 and then finished the second half-marathon in 1:11:30.

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The impressive run comes a few weeks after Frodeno won his age group in the OCC race at UTMB, finishing the 60- to 61-km race that included over 3,500 m of climbing in 6:31:55.

Speaking of Berlin, Slowtwitch’s Tech editor, Anthony Chan, ran 2:42:45. Congrats, Anthony!

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