South African Dan Hugo is best known for his XTERRA exploits, but he also has done a few road events. He is currently getting ready for XTERRA Richmond.

Bree Wee was leading her home town race, Ironman 70.3 Hawaii, by a defensible margin when she took a wrong turn off the run course, backtracked, and fell from 1st to 3rd in a heartbreaking twist of fate.

There’s a set of imperatives now for clip-ons. At least if I’m going to ride them. There are mandatory functions. Here are some clip-ons that hit the mark, or come darned close.

Hillary Biscay recently finished her 60th Ironman and she has been quite busy otherwise too with a new business venture and being relatively newly married.

Pennsylvania native Scott Zwizanski races for the Optum Pro Cycling team and we had the opportunity to check out his Orbea Ordu race bike.

Kevin and Nikki Garwood were inspired by Dick and Rick Hoyt and they recently finished the spec-savers Ironman South Africa together.

The much-loved Slowtwitch Mailbag has come back in a new revised and expanded version. Submit your questions, and we’ll do our best to find the answers for you.

Joe Gambles and Heather Wurtele took the wins at the 2013 Revolution3 Quassy Half. Here now is an image gallery from the racing action there.

At the 2013 US Pro Cycling TT Champs we managed to check out the SRAM & Zipp equipped Felt DA race bike of Alison Tetrick of team Exergy TWENTY16.

Greg and Laura Bennett dominated the men’s and women’s fields at Ironman 70.3 Raleigh; Greg used a dominant bike and run to win by 13 minutes 17 seconds and Laura won by 3:56 over Emma-Kate Lidbury.

Another brilliant performance by Jonathan Brownlee allowed him to take the win at the 2013 ITU World Triathlon Series event in Madrid, Spain. Javier Gomez finished second and Ivan Vasiliev finished third.

Joe Gambles took the win at the 2013 Revolution3 Quassy Triathlon with Richie Cunningham in second place and Bevan Docherty in third. Heather Wurtele bested Heather Jackson to take the women’s title.

Heavy rain and cold temperatures had changed the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland to a duathlon, but a landslide and a falling tree early on during the bike segment forced organizers to stop the race and abort the event.

Australians Clayton Fettell and Emma Moffatt won the men’s and women’s titles at the Coral Coast 5150 in Cairns; Fettell edged ITU star Brad Kahlefeldt by 1:10 while Moffatt dominated the women by a 14:12 margin.

The very talented Non Stanford stormed to her first ITU World Triathlon Series win in Madrid, Spain with German Anne Haug in second place and fellow Brit Jodie Stimpson on the final podium spot.

Bertrand Billard of France is the new ITU Long Distance World Champion and Melissa Hauschildt of Australia bested the women’s field in this 9.5km run, 87km bike, 20km run event that had to be changed to a duathlon because of unusually cold temps.

Three-time Ironman World Champion Craig Alexander crushed the bike and tied for fastest run to take the men’s title; Belinda Granger inherited the women’s win when Bree Wee ran off course at Ironman 70.3 Hawaii.

Enhanced race results are back for 2013! We start with IMTX and a special by-request IM Lanzarote. Welcome back to Craig Harris. Get your requests in for results!

Aussie Josh Amberger did a 1km hill repeat workout in Boulder Canyon, CO with Kiwi Martin Van Barneveld and here is a video of their efforts.

We managed to snap a few details of the Devinci Leo SL race bike of Nate English of the 5-hour ENERGY presented by Kenda team.

The French Canadian sports enclave Mont-Tremblant has landed the 2014 70.3 World Championship. The 2015 race will take place in Europe, the precise destination as of yet unknown.

Matthew Busche of Team Radioshack Leopard Trek was the only representative of his squad at the US Pro Cycling Championships and we looked closer at his Trek Speed Concept.

The Rev3 Quassy event features a big purse and has thus attracted a very strong field. Among the favorites are Richie Cunningham, Bevan Docherty Andrew Starykowicz, Mirinda Carfrae, Heather Jackson and Annabel Luxford.

We had a closer look at the Giant Trinity Advanced SL of Mountain View, Ca resident Megan Guarnier who rides for the Dutch Rabobank squad.