The opening salvo of a record breaking 26th year of the Ultraman World Championships. Day One’s 10K swim and 90 mile ride swim. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.

Felt correctly understands a trend and a truth the rest of the bike industry is slower to grasp: The more the price of a complete tri bike exceeds $5000, the more Di2 elbows its way to the forefront of the discussion.

We recently noticed the Oval Aero Cap, the new Peloton cycling magazine, an interesting triathlon pedal prototype, a cool bike shop business card and a long distance relationship t-shirt.

Mike LeRoux of Australia takes the double marathon in 6:31:45, leapfrogs past an ailing Jonas Colting for the win; Amber Monforte leads three other women who all smashed Tina Bischoff’s 21-year-old Ultraman Hawaii race record.

Andy Potts grabbed another Ironman title with his course record breaking win time of 8:16:14 at the 2010 Ford Ironman Cozumel. Yvonne Van Vlerken managed to defend her title in a time of 9:07:25.

Two-time Ultraman champ Jonas Colting leads Ultra rookie Slater Fletcher by 22:46; Amber Monforte shatters the Day 2 bike mark, on pace to smash 21-year-old women’s race record, leads Hillary Biscay by 25:36 and Shanna Armstrong by 35:08

Two-time Ultraman champ Jonas Colting of Sweden leads Aussie Mike LeRoux on day 1 of Ultraman 2010; Hillary Biscay leads Amber Monforte by 4:35 and 6-time champ Shanna Armstrong by 15:23

Eight months ago a hit and run driver almost killed him. Somehow Jordan Rapp pieced his shattered body together and his 4th at Ironman Arizona might have been his greatest day in the sport

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on the best computer software for Mac users, the new Garmin 210, and whether or not the Garmin 305 is going the way of the dodo.

Steve Blick experienced this summer how priorities can shift in an instant when he found out that his 4-year old son Tyler was diagnosed with ALL Leukemia. The Oakley marketing guy shared some of his thoughts about this journey.

Devastated when illness short circuited her attempt at a Kona four-peat; a smashing 8:36:13 Ironman Arizona win and 3rd place for boyfriend Tom Lowe offered sweet solace for Chrissie Wellington.

This was essentially Andreas Raelert’s bike for the 09 Ironman. Except for the aerobar and stem, this version of the EX has the best parts spec of any tri bike made by any company for 2011. And the aerobar is okay too.

The latest round of results in our series offering you an enhanced look at the data from key races around the globe. Featured in this issue are the 2010 editions of the Ironman World Championships 70.3 in its final year in Clearwater, FL and Ironman Arizona.

Chrissie Wellington smashed the IM world-best, Timo Bracht topped Rasmus Henning, and Jordan Rapp’s 4th was a great comeback. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson

We noticed the German Tri-Aktlon calendar and this is a product that is NSFW. Akt is actually the German word fort artistic nudity and that is exactly what is featured in this German triathlon calendar. So beware.

Timo Bracht weathered the specter of two speedsters in a heated footrace and held on to win the 2010 Ford Ironman Arizona. Chrissie Wellington put on a dominant performance to win the women’s title in 8:36:13 and finished 8th overall.

Jeff Jewell was a massage therapist for Team USA from 2001-2009 and he recently passed away after a 2 year fight with cancer. Tim Hola remembers his friend Jeff and shares his thoughts on slowtwitch.

Chris McCormack said Andreas Raelert will look back at their 2010 Kona duel as the one he let get away; the talented runner-up has a different take and talked to slowtwitch about it.

Portuguese triathlete Pedro Gomes is also known as Klep and Krepe, but recently he got in the news with his runner-up finish at the 2010 Ironman Florida. We had a few words with the very outgoing Pedro Gomes.

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers a question on the new LeMond Revolution trainer and shares a special tip on how to integrate your Road ID with your Garmin Forerunner.

Do you subscribe to the “natural” running philosophy, but need a bit more support? This shoe borrows from both the Kinvara and a regular training shoe. Saucony is about to score another hit in this architectural theme.

Raelert repeats, Swallow prevails in Clearwater at the Foster Grant Ironman 70.3 World Championships. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson

We noticed the Bont Vaypor cycling shoes, the Sugoi RSE Windblock jersey, the Triathlon 2010 WCS review book, the finished Iron Blazeman song, an interesting 686 tool belt and a jar of Karmic BS.

Michael Raelert repeated his Foster Grant Ironman 70.3 World Championship title with a superb performance. Jodie Swallow was first out of the water, extended her lead on the bike and then ran to her first 70.3 Worlds title.