Andy Potts won his sixth Escape From Alcatraz title by 38 seconds over Bevan Docherty of New Zealand and Sarah Haskins won her first Escape by a 23 seconds margin over Mirinda Carfrae of Australia

We bumped into Linsey Corbin in Cary, NC, where she is getting ready for Ironman 70.3 Raleigh and used that encounter to check out her Trek Speed Concept.

Mario Mola edged Richard Murray and Joao Pereira at the WTS London sprint; the Brownlee brothers took 4th and 5th while Javier Gomez’ 3-race win streak ended with a 6th place.

Gwen Jorgensen won her second WTS race in a row and vaulted to the top of the standings with a killer run and a dominating victory, and Sarah Groff made it a 1-2 U.S. sweep in London

Kiwi Pro Callum Millward will race the Ironman 70.3 Raleigh on the new Quintana Roo PR6 super bike and we managed to take a closer look before it went into battle.

Last weekends folks competed at the draft legal REV3 Rush super sprint race and we have images from this inaugural event on the Richmond International Raceway.

NASCAR racer #98 Josh Wise is also a fast and talented triathlete and we spent a day with this man who won the NASCAR Sprint Fan Vote.

Kevin McDowell’s roller coaster life includes bronze at 2010 ITU Junior Worlds, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a long recovery, then silver at the Chengdu World Cup.

Matt Hanson finished 6th at Ironman Texas despite 2 flat tires during the bike segment. But a 2:41:38 run helped this former wrestler and relatively new Pro.

Most of the time we’re spending $20 or less on TYR, Speedo, Aqua Sphere and blueseventy goggles because they work. But here’s 2 goggles you should know about, from Barracuda and Zoggs.

This weekend of big motor races at Monaco and Indy, we bring you triathlons long, middle and short, off and on road, from Spain and Ukraine, Mauritius and Texas, Austria and Dunkirk, and thrills from Brazil.

Aussie age grouper Clint Kimmins is well known for his surfing prowess, but he is all about triathlon now and stamped his ticket to Kona at Ironman Melbourne.

2 individuals have the opportunity to be in a relay with Timothy O’Donnell at Challenge Atlantic City, and all proceeds from the auction go to Team RWB.

Maddy Tormoen won $50,000 one day at Zofingen and won eight straight Powerman women’s races leading to that triumph; the price of her love of sport was dozens of operations and a scary case of ventricular tachycardia.

What length valve stem are you using? Removable cores? What kind of sealant? What kind of extender is on your wheels? And your spares? This and more in this installment of Things That Roll.

This week we noticed the Shimano CM-1000 camera, the hi-tech Skylock, the artistic Recycler, the custom Freddy Van Lierde bike, the Silca EOLO III and more.

There is a unique opportunity to enter certain sold out European Ironman events and help people who suffer from PAH or pulmonary arterial hypertension

Extender: one of the few words rhyming with “ender” that is not in Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender”. This winds Kopecky’s how-to into a race-prep chapter in “Things that Roll”.

We review the 50mm-deep, 23mm-wide Bontrager Aura 5 TLR. With aluminum brake tracks and tubeless compatibility, they aim to bring aero and reliability to the masses.

Jessica Broderick showed a lot of promise by winning the 2009 USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals; after a tough 2013, she broke through to a World Cup podium guided by renowned coach Darren Smith.

In a week-long series we’ll talk about wheels, tubes, tires, how to choose them, prepare them, acclimate yourself to them, and get the most out of them during the race. We begin with a discussion of wheel depth.

Josh Poertner is best known for his work at Zipp where he worked a long time, but 8 months ago he left and invested into the venerable Silca brand.

The World Anti-Doping Agency banned the inhalation of xenon and argon gases, used for a decade by Russian Olympic teams, because they instigated the production of the performance enhancing drug EPO

We cover Ironman Lanzarote, 70.3 Barcelona, XTERRA Southeast, the Memphis in May mud fest and much more in this Weekend Box of May 18, 2014.