It is the time of the year when we think about gifts for loved ones or ourselves and our editor-in-chief has a few thoughts along those lines.
by Herbert Krabel, December 16, 2014
Cecil Wheeler’s distinctive bib number in Kona caught our eye and we thus selected him for a random age grouper interview. Meet the man who resides in Switzerland.
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The hardness difference between concrete and asphalt is insignificant when running in shoes, because the cushioning afforded by shoes far exceeds any cushioning provided by those surfaces.
Today is the day we begin crowd-pressuring you into running as close as practicable to 100 times in 100 days. It’s the 9th year of the “100/100,” our most popular Slowtwitch Challenge.
Sebastian Kienle made many people happy when he won Kona this year, but likely non more than his family and friends from Tri-Team Heuchelberg.
After a near-perfect 2013 season and a strong 2014, Melissa Hauschildt was primed for a third Ironman 70.3 title at Mt. Tremblant and a strong Kona debut. But a very bad massage derailed her.
For André Kajlich the world changed when he lost his legs in a terrible accident, but it has not stopped him. He just conquered the 2014 Ultraman.
What can $134 do? It can change the world for someone in Africa by giving them a Buffalo bicycle from World Bicycle Relief. And it can earn you a chance to get one of these amazing prizes donated by some of the biggest and best companies in the industry. Check it out and donate now!
New Zealand Pros Mark Bowstead and Ashleigh Williams took home country elite overall titles at the Kellogg Nutri-Grain Taupo Half by comfortable margins.
Peter Henning, one of the greatest sports documentarians and an award-winning Ironman cameraman and producer, has taken on the reins at Challenge as their TV consultant.
Tobias Winnemöller has qualified for the Ironman World Championships in Kona several times, but tried his luck at Ultraman instead this year – and won.
The teams at SRAM, Zipp, & Quarq have come together in a big way to support the 6th annual Rappstar Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief. Get dirty with a CX1 groupset. Own the road with RED22. Power up with an Elsa power meter. Or fly on Zipp Firecrest.
American mile record holder Alan Webb has found triathlon as his new love and passion and now has spent about a year in the sport and we talked to him.
Denis Chevrot of France and New Zealand resident Britta Martin won the elite titles by comfortable margins on a hot day at Ironman Western Australia in Busselton.
Michael Raelert captured the inaugural Challenge Bahrain and hefty part of the $500,000 purse with a time of 3:36:04. Helle Frederiksen took the women’s title in 3:55:50.
Challenge Family announced a Triple Crown series and very impressive $1,000,000 prize purse during the awards ceremony of the inaugural Challenge Bahrein.
As in past years, the first 100 donors to Jordan Rapp’s World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge will get a special prize. This year, it’s a limited edition World Bicycle Relief trucker hat from BOCO Gear.
The original überbiker had found a home as the Senior Triathlon Coach at the extraordinary sports facilities of the Thanyapura Phuket triathlon academy in Laguna Phuket, Thailand.
Are these the most advanced cycling metrics produced by a power meter? This crank-based unit measures power every 30 degrees during a complete pedal rotation on both the left and right side.
German age grouper Lukas Krämer won the M30-34 age group at the 2014 GoPro Ironman Worlds and he surely had the coolest race kit on the Big Island.
Catching images of the brave souls who competed in 107 degrees heat and survived the rugged hills at Challenge Laguna Phuket. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.
Throughout November around 40 men of triathlon grew mustaches to raise awareness and money for Movember. Here now are the top 23 fundraisers of the bunch.
Aero. Is. Everything. So goes the mantra for Specialized’s aerodynamic product development engineering team. They believe in it so much they built their own wind tunnel. Now you can win a once-in-a-lifetime chance to spend a day with them seeing just how much faster they can make you.
This review was almost a year in the making, but for a shoe of this price I thought it prudent to make sure it would stand up to everything I could throw at it.
