
The Swim Leg Reconsidered
Why I am choosing to hitch my wagon to the swim in my hack-an-Ironman training approach.
by Lars Finanger, March 28, 2017Why I am choosing to hitch my wagon to the swim in my hack-an-Ironman training approach.
by Lars Finanger, March 28, 2017Lesley Paterson was a good, then a retired, then a resurgent athlete. Here’s this World Champ’s book (with her husband) on the psychology of tri.
This past weekend athletes from the Southern Hemisphere experienced the inaugural Breca Wanaka Swimrun in New Zealand and here are first impressions from the event.
Road Shows at Sports Basement in San Francisco and Rocklin Endurance north of Sacramento were bigger than last year’s shows.
Yesterday at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships long-time frontrunner, Joshua Cheptegei, pulls a Brownlee with the finish in sight!
The USA and the UK announced that laptops, tablets, e-readers and all other electronic gadgets with the exception of cell phones can no longer be carried on board of flights originating from certain airports in the Middle East, and that includes Dubai International Airport and Abu Dhabi International Airport.
The 2013 IRONMAN World Champion Frederik Van Lierde was attacked by a group of teenagers in South Africa, knocked unconscious and then robbed of his phone.
Trevor Wurtele is getting ready for IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside and he already has a 3rd place finish at the recent 70.3 Campeche in Mexico to his name. The always entertaining Wurtele chatted with us about a variety of topics including the race in Campeche, the upcoming season and sponsor woes and love.
A great, Kona-winning tri bike not as popular with consumers as with pros. Why? The lack of a pathway to purchase? That objection is now gone.
Week three of the Slowtwitch Road Show Tour took the ice cream truck to Texas for a stop at Tri Shop.
Jodie Stimpson is glad that 2016 is over and this gritty Brit has her focus now set on 2017 and beyond. She started her season in Abu Dhabi and was narrowly beaten by Andrea Hewitt. But there are no regrets.
Affordable Tire is a business that sits on a side street on a small-to-mid-sized American town. And just creams it. Metaphors abound.
Michellie Jones, Lesley Paterson, John Cobb and others made appearances at Road Shows over the weekend.
A snapshot look at how endurance sports changed my life for the better.
Here are some examples of the Express Fits in San Diego and Dallas (this past weekend) as a guide to what Bay Area folks can expect this weekend.
Staffan Björkland is very close to nature as an avid and accomplished climber, skier, adventure racer and Swimrun athlete. He won the ÖTILLÖ Swimrun World Championships in the mixed division with Marika Wagner in 2015 but he is not simply defined by that result. He will soon race an XTERRA triathlon and who knows what will be next after that.
Jake Birtwhistle won Day 3, Richard Murray placed 3rd on the final day and earned $100,000 for the Super League Triathlon overall title.
Taylor Reid outran Andy Potts and Alicia Kaye’s fended off a women’s-best run by Stephanie Roy to win Puerto Rico 70.3.
Richard Murray won the Day 2 Equalizer format stage of the Super League Triathlon, increasing his overall lead with one day to go.
Ruedi Wild outdueled Timothy O’Donnell and Barbara Riveros ran away from Radka Kahlefeldt to win the elite titles at Taiwan 70.3.
Richard Murray of South Africa took the Day 1 lead of the $206,800 Super League Triathlon sprint series in Hamilton Island.
Find out how Eric Lagerstrom reacted when a chain jam threatened his race.
Here are some images from a Road Show just ended (in metro Detroit) with a preview of what’s upcoming this weekend and next.
2016 Olympian Joe Maloy recently decided to walk away from professional triathlon instead of trying to battle for another Olympic start and he talked openly about this decision and much more.
Linda Lines was the significant other invited to a training vacation, except now it’s her training vacation. Non-swimmer to this in 3 weeks.