Weeks after turning 18, this Mexico City talent was first overall amateur at XTERRA Worlds; he’s making pro podiums this year and coach Lesley Paterson predicts Mauricio Mendez will soon be XTERRA World Champion.

Polar’s got a lot riding on its new intro, the V800. There are pluses and minuses versus Garmin’s 910xt, but overall Polar establishes a mighty platform for now and the future.

This past weekend 1208 athletes jumped from a ferry near Cape May, NJ to challenge themselves in the Escape The Cape triathlon and we surely noticed.

Weekend events bring joyous accounts of the oldest men’s Ironman winner, more action in Cairns, Canadians atop the Idaho podium, excitement in Kansas and more

It wasn’t all about the bike, but that was the key ingredient in the hard-fought victories of Andrew Starykowicz and Heather Wurtele at Ironman 70.3 Eagleman.

A few days back we spent a day with NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Josh Wise and today we share a chat we had with this fast and passionate age group triathlete.

John Summerson’s new edition of Climbing by Bike in California adds color and depth to the lifestyle of a training cyclist and multisporter. It’s both a field guide and a devotional.

This week we stumbled upon the Zoot Solana running shoes, myFloat dry bag, Spurtreu alignment tool, WahooTickr heart rate monitor, bananas, accidents and thievery.

We update our big rim width database for 2014. New for this year – not only are outside rim widths listed, but also internal widths for clincher rims. Read on for all of the details.

We have spent time with the Thule RoundTrip Transition hard shell bike travel case and you can learn here how we felt about this impressive looking box.

Last summer Xiao Wang started a One Shot At Kona thread in our forum and he was mocked and encouraged, and at the recent Ironman Texas he used that single bullet.

Young Aussie Sam Douglas is spending a few months in the USA and when he raced the 70.3 Raleigh we looked closer at his Merida Time Warp race bike.

Andy Potts and Sarah Haskins escaped from Alcatraz with the titles and the bragging rights, but it surely wasn’t easy. Here are images from the dreary day.

Canadian Pro Sara Gross finally captured her first Ironman title in Brazil, but what should have been a happy memory turned out to be bittersweet indeed.

Austin, TX resident Amy Marsh captured the win at Ironman 70.3 Raleigh and we looked closer at her Shimano and Hed equipped Cervelo P5 race bike.

In addition to our featured race coverage, the Weekend Box brings you tales of races in Hawaii, Switzerland, Spain, Texas, North Carolina, Portugal …

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.