With so many races out there it is getting harder for athletes to pick where to go and tough for races to survive. Here is why I signed up for the Gulf Coast Tri in May.

Here is your opportunity to read Jordan Rapp’s closing remarks from 2014 Ironman Arizona’s opening ceremony. Maybe his best since, “When the Shite Gets Brown.”

It makes a lot of sense that being in the drops on your road bike is more aero than being on the hoods. But is that also true when riding in the draft?

If you want to know why this lawsuit was brought, read here. There’s a more robust, historic argument the suit omits, but which morally bolster’s Shoemaker’s case.

Part 2 of USAT’s board war. Ten years ago, to the month, USAT faced the same board crisis it’s facing now: an expensive and exhausting coexistence between elite and general directors.

Men Of Triathlon are raising Movember money again for testicular and prostate cancer and other men’s heath issues. You can join the team too and or donate money.

Since October, 2012, USA Triathlon has been an organization at war with itself. In this 2-part series Slowtwitch explains the war, which has cost the federation in time and treasure.

It’s that time of the year again! For the sixth year in a row, it is time for the annual WBR fundraiser that puts bikes into the hands of MANY well-deserving folks around the world.

Flora Duffy reflects on the road she traveled to get from 3rd in 2013 to 1st in 2014 at the XTERRA World Championship in Maui – and how off road triathlon can coexist with and improve her ITU career

31-year old Tabatha Hamilton was disqualified from the Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon when officials noticed that chip data did not support the 2:55:39 finish time.

This week we noticed a world record bike ride, the Lexxi AeroSmartSuit, the Roka SIM shorts, delicious wafers, a boss of a pencil and more.

Tim Reed was second at Ironman 70.3 Mandurah, but this fast Aussie budgy smuggler had one of the fastest bike split on his Shimano equipped Felt IA FRD.

We present a Challenge in Oz, an Olympic and an engagement in the Bahamas, a Brazilian Ironman, a beautiful Indian Ocean race, a half in Kiwiland and a Colorado wedding.

Michael Raelert stormed to the win at Ironman 70.3 Mandurah with a superbly fast 3:35:55. Annabel Luxford had to run down Anja Beranek to take the women’s title.

We noticed Aussie Isaac Tonello when he checked his bike in for the GoPro Ironman World Championships and followed up with him now to learn more about this man.

Dan Empfield had Litespeed make him a gravel bike and he dubbed that bike Freedom. Litespeed has pushed it even further and offers it as the T5 gravel.

Learn what the top 15 male Pros in Kona used in terms of bikes, components and other gear, plus lots of numbers of these super fast Ironman athletes.

Aussie Levi Maxwell won the M25-29 category in Kona with a 8:52:14 time but it was not an easy path to the Big Island for this talented young athlete.

We noticed aero shoe covers from Orca, fancy new aero shoes from Mavic, mustached men in triathlon, a Kona viewing party in Denver and more.

Kevin Pauwels and Sanne Cant won the 2014 Super Prestige cross race in Zonhoven, but the amazing part of this event is the massive amount of spectators.

Following a report that an officer in California might be misinterpreting the state’s new 3-foot law, we interviewed the dean of bicycle attorneys, former Olympic cyclist Bob Mionske.

Are laws designed to protect cyclists being used against them by officers who don’t like cyclists? This might have happened last week, and we interviewed the California Highway Patrol.

24-year old Austrian Pro Matthias Brändle scorched the Swiss Aigle track with a record breaking 1-hour performance aboard a Scott Plasma with a 51.852 km distance.

Jackie Fairweather, 1996 ITU Triathlon and Duathlon World champion, 2:32:40 marathoner, inaugural coach of the Australian Institute of Sport Triathlon program, died at the age of 46.