Great field, hot racing, the exultation, the struggle at Oceanside with Mirinda Carfrae and Andy Potts the 2011 champions. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
by Tim Carlson, April 3, 2011
Andrew Yoder blitzed the bike course Kemah, TX in 52:55 and grabbed the win at the 2011 Kemah Triathlon. Bike prowess also helped Angela Naeth on her way to the women’s title.
Andy Potts pulled away from Rasmus Henning late in the run to take the 2011 Rohto Ironman 70.3 California. Mirinda Carfrae overcame a 4:45 gap after the bike with a 1:18:25 half marathon to take her 3rd title in Oceanside.
We can quibble over the 20-year wait, or we can celebrate the fact that iconic component maker Campagnolo has at long last introduced the necessary elements of its gruppo specific to timed racing.
Commensurate with the launch of Campagnolo’s TT group, the Italian component maker announces, along with Felt, the launch of its triathlon-legal seat tube motor.
The Rohto Ironman 70.3 California pros stayed cool and calm on a sunny day on the eve of battle at Oceanside. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson
Gwen Jorgensen swam and ran for the University of Wisconsin and was introduced to triathlon by Barb Lindquist and USAT. Fast forward a year and Jorgensen is now racing ITU World Cup events.
American Matt Chrabot has positioned himself well for London 2012. He finished 2010 ranked 12th in the world and as the highest ranking American. More recently, Matt took the gold at the Miami International Triathlon.
The 2011 Rohto Ironman 70.3 California has one of the best early season fields in the sport. Michael Raelert isn’t defending so the men’s race is wide open for top talent.
Mirinda Carfrae is the prohibitive favorite to execute a three-peat at the 2011 Rohto Ironman 70.3 California women’s race this Saturday. But Kelly Williamson, Linsey Corbin, Kate Major and Magali Tisseyre will dispute.
In 1996, Cory Foulk finished Ironman Hawaii riding a 61-pound beach cruiser. Today, after a hip resurfacing operation, he’s totaled 47 Ironman and 21 Ultraman events and still thinks the hard way is more fun.
Ryan Giuliano won wire to wire with the three best splits, and Michelle Parsons sandwiched a race-best bike between third–best and second-best runs to triumph at Powerman Alabama.
Aussie Pro Courtney Atkinson had a video camera mounted under the handlebars during the ITU Mooloolaba World Cup to share an inside perspective of the bike segment of an ITU race.
New Zealand’s Nicky Samuels won her first ITU World Cup at Mooloolaba thanks to a bike breakaway, and held off World Champion Emma Moffatt’s 2nd-best run. Riveros-Diaz finished third.
Pavel Andreev and Borghild Lovset won elite titles at the ITU Winter Triathlon Worlds — the USA’s Brian Smith and Emma Garrard both finished 7th
Tereza Macel announced that she is stepping away from the professional triathlon racing circuit and the announcement came as quite a surprise. Tez talked with slowtwitch about the decision and what might be next.
Aussie Brad Kahlefeldt took the win at the 2011 season opening ITU Mooloolaba World Cup and repeated his title from 2010. Brendan Sexton grabbed second place and David Hauss took the final podium spot.
In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses the various pace displays on how elapsed time works, the Wahoo Fitness iPhone case, and the new Vector power-meter pedals.
Responding to a thread on slowtwitch about what Pros do on their off days, Randy Sadler decided to capture a mellow day in the life of his wife Amanda Stevens.
Kris Gemmell just recorded a nice win at the steamy Aviva 70.3 Singapore, but his focus is clearly on the ITU Dextro Energy WCS events and qualifying for the Olympics. We had a few words with the man.
We invite you to look closer at the Osymetric chainrings, the On Cloudsurfer running shoes, the Purple Harry Bike Floss and the Endurance Conspiracy bike slang t-shirt.
We have seen the dramatic footage from Japan over and over, but to some folks the images hit much closer to home. Mike Trees and his Japanese wife Rieko are really close to the situation and started Tri4Japan to help folks there.
If you want your legs to feel as fresh at 8, or 15, or 22 miles into your run as they feel during the first few miles, you need your shoe to reduce the accumulated damage done. This is that shoe.
My first run in this shoe was a 5k road race. I liked these shoes a lot right from the gun. But it wasn’t until about two miles into that race‚ on the descent‚ that I fell in love.
Matt Chrabot showed great early season form with a fine win at the Miami International Triathlon, the opening race for the new 5i50 Triathlon series. Jillian Petersen grabbed the women’s title.
