Despite the tough undulating run course in Chattanooga we saw some very fast running times and very captivating battles for the podium. Here now are pics from the men on the run.

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Ben Kanute put down the hammer on the difficult Chattanooga bike course with a 2:08:10 split, but the fastest split went to Sebastian Kienle who rode 2:07:45. Kanute however finished second to Spain’s Javier Gomez who rode 2:12:27 on the way to a 3:49:44 overall time. Kienle struggled during the run and ended up 5th.

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Javier Gomez passed long time race leader Ben Kanute at Mile 8 of the run to win Ironman 70.3 Worlds by 1:22.

Braden Currie of New Zealand edged Ben Hoffman of the U.S. by 1 second at Santa Cruz 70.3.

The course in Chattanooga was challenging and World Championship worthy and here now are images from the day where only women competed.

Daniela Ryf finished in 4:11:59 with a 6:37 margin over Emma Pallant to win Ironman 70.3 Worlds in Chattanooga.

Timothy Carlson rates the men’s and women’s elite fields at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga.

In this video, Jeff Yingling, part of CeramicSpeed’s Technical/R&D Support group, goes over proper lubrication technique and the various lubricants – and where they are used – for bicycles.

Mother Nature is unpredictable and we have to live in harmony with her. Here are some stunning images and a video from the 2017 ÖTILLÖ World Championships in Sweden.

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Before the race has even begun, the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga, TN is already a watershed moment in the history of Ironman racing. For the first time, men and women will compete on different days. Totally separate races have long been a fixture on the draft-legal ITU elite circuit, but never before has Ironman split the field at a world championship race.

The lovable, maddening force of nature that was Les McDonald, the father of Olympic triathlon, has died at 84.

High winds and rain made for very tough conditions for the 148 starting teams at the 2017 ÖTILLÖ but a course record was broken anyhow.

Gillian Backhouse dominated the women’s field; Norwegian Gustav Iden won his first World Cup at Karlovy Vary.

Danes Thomas Strange and Camilla Pedersen won the elite titles at the half distance Challenge Fredericia.

Emma Pooley won her 4th Zofingen and Maxim Kuzmin became the first Russian to win the classic long course duathlon.

Steger edges Molinari by 1 minute; Siddall bests Sämmler by 3:57 at Challenge Kaiserwinkl-Walchsee.

Olympic silver medalist Fernandes overcame a large deficit with sizzling run; Chevrot ran away to win Cascais 70.3.

ITU veteran Anne Haug ran down Lucy Charles and James Cunnama ran away for the win at Lanzarote 70.3.

On July 29 at Edmonton, Taylor Knibb of the U.S. became the youngest woman to podium at a WTS race.

CeramicSpeed master wrench Jeff Yingling discusses proper chain maintenance. Part 2 in an 8-Part video series on bike maintenance created exclusively for Slowtwitch by the bike geeks at CeramicSpeed.