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.

Brit Tim Don and Czech Radka Vodickova captured the final Rev3 Pro purses at the popular Rev3 Knoxville event today, but Rev3 is not planning to go away.

Kiwi Bevan Docherty unleashed a run of fury to capture the 2014 Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas in 8:09:37. Texan Kelly Williamson took the women’s title and possibly her finest win in 8:54:42.

After her first clean swim and ride at a World Triathlon Series event this year, Gwen Jorgensen laid down the law on the run to dominate the third WTS round at Yokohama Saturday.

During the Waldo County YMCA Tri in Maine, a triathlete crashed hard because of a car who pulled into the road, and fellow competitor Roberto Lopez-Anido stopped to assist and direct traffic.

Defending World Triathlon Series champion Javier Gomez dropped Jonny Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Richard Murray and outsprinted fellow Spaniard Mario Mola to win Yokohama – his 3rd straight WTS in 2014.

Alicia Kaye had a great 2013 season with big wins at St. Anthony’s, Cap Tex and Oceanside and is about to defend that Lifetime Cap Tex title in Austin again. We checked in with her to see what else she is up to.

Joe Anderson was passing another triathlete during the bike segment of the Waldo County YMCA triathlon when according to the Bangor Daily News a car pulled out of a driveway and caused a collision.

This time we noticed the ultra light Hanseeno cycling shoes, the b70 core shorts, the Almanzo 100 gravel race, a nifty cycling accessible coffee shop and more.

The Weekend Box brings you two half Iron distance races from beautiful European resorts, a stirring first World Cup in Chengdu, China, and more