Every year we select a random age grouper on the return flight from Kona, and this year we bumped into Utah resident Dana Bullard with her family in tow.

Josiah Middaugh broke Ruben Ruzafa’s XTERRA domination with his first XTERRA Worlds win in 15 tries; Flora Duffy beat Lesley Paterson for her 3rd Maui title.

American Joe Maloy won the 2015 Noosa Triathlon, a race that has traditionally been dominated by Aussie men. Ashleigh Gentle from Australia defended her title.

Gina Crawford and Guy Crawford (not related) won Ironman 70.3 Taiwan; Kate Bevilaqua (Guy Crawford’s significant other) and Christian Kramer (unattached) placed 2nd.

Is there any defensible explanation for Escape’s fee increase, beyond charging what the market will bear? Slowtwitch asked. Here’s what we found.

Mat Steinmetz of 51 SPEEDSHOP worked with Aussie Tim Van Berkel to dial him in on his new Giant Trinity Advanced Pro 0.

Rumors were plentiful, but now it is official: the 2016 IRONMAN Melbourne is cancelled and that means the hunt is on for a new Asia-Pacific Champs location.

This week we noticed an interesting tail light from NiteRider, a super expensive short course race, a bicycle first aid kit, Hell on Orange, a clever Halloween card, and more.

We bring you accounts of exciting triathlon action from Miami and Mexico in North America, Turkey in Europe and Penrith in Australia – three 70.3s and a short course classic.

Matthew Sharp of Great Britain and Yuka Sato of Japan won their first World Cup titles Saturday in the final race of the 2015 ITU World Cup series in Tongyeong.

Brit Susie Cheetham finished 6th in Kona and 7th in Zell am See this year, but as she is now fully devoted to triathlon we can expect to see even more from her.

Jason Gunter lost his right hand and left leg in a boating accident, and his first attempt to finish Kona fell short in 2009. But in 2015 he had a 2nd chance.

After a discouraging setback last year, Timothy O’Donnell hit the reset button and came up with a personal best, top American, 3rd-place finish in Kona.

Orca has a range of products that are great for open water swimming and training, and here we take a look at a few of those items including the wetsuit and dry bag.

German Malte Bruns was the top age grouper at the GoPro Ironman World Championships and here you can meet this young man who started triathlon in 2014.

On October 29th Zwift will begin a phased beta rollout of the Workout Mode they teased at the GoPro Ironman World Championships, and also start to charge.

A date change for the 2016 Formula 1 race in Melbourne, Australia could spell trouble for the Ironman Asia-Pacific Champs as these two events now collide.

Party Time! Forty shops in 32 cities will host a Slowtwitch Road Show in 2016. Here’s a list of metro areas and participating Road Show stores.

Robby MacBeath of Cloudberry Media captured the inaugural Loch Gu Loch SwimRun event in video so we can all experience it in cozy and dry comfort.

A week after Kona, we bring you accounts of a 70.3 and an ITU Duathlon World Championship in Australia, a Challenge half in Spain and, a World Cup in Turkey.

It was hot and the attrition rate was high and here now are running images from the pro men during the 2015 GoPro Ironman World Championships in Kona.

Heather Jackson finished 5th at the 2015 GoPro Ironman World Champs and we took a closer look at her unique custom painted Cannondale Slice.

Seven years after his brilliant stretch run to win Olympic gold, Jan Frodeno authored a carefully balanced swim, bike and run to win the Ironman World Championship.

After long swim and bike legs, the competitors at Kona find a fluid, graceful run form is the best weapon against exhaustion. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.