In this 2010 gallery Timothy Carlson is focusing on some of triathlon’s most striking personalities in a variety of settings around the world.

We recently came across the Biestmilch chewy tablets, the new fi’zi:k Arione Tri 2 Carbon Braided option, the Trix Phoenix hoodie, a great New Year’s greeting from Fred Belaubre, a Terenzo Bozzone commercial and the Yurbuds earphones.

In the next edition of our series on bike lights for safety & Visibility on the road, we look at the Vis360 and Vis180 from Light & Motion. L & M lists these lights under the "Commuter" section of their website with the tagline, "Be safe. Be seen." I swear I did not plagiarize them, but I’m happy to take their good advice, and their visibility-focused and USB-rechargeable lights make it easy to do so.

USA Triathlon’s recent board meeting minutes relate extraordinary, and unprecedented in their aggegate sums, resolutions approved for Olympic development – line items that bespeak an evolving mission.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, triathlon’s 36th year of existence had many moments to remember. Timothy Carlson recalls the finest performances and a few oddities of the triathlon year 2010.

2010 Ironman World Champion Mirinda Carfrae 2011 has a new partnership with Felt bicycles through the year 2014 and she had a few words with slowtwitch about the changes.

This is the sweet spot in the Specialized Transition line-up. Were I a dealer selling Specialized, I’ve had ordered pallet after pallet of this model. If a Transition is in your future, get it soon, while the getting’s good.

Here are selected results of a year’s worth of Slowtwitch polling of our readers, on lifestyle, equipment preferences, race distance preferences, athletic strengths and weaknesses, and more.

With the year 2010 coming to an end Timothy Carlson picks his favorite rants, ripostes, bon mots, disses, one liners and extended ruminations about the nature of the sport of triathlon.

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers five questions on the favorite accessory of every gear geek stuck inside during the winter – the speed and distance footpod.

This last issue of 2010 features Manzella gloves, Labello lip balm, Macca Wheaties, the wedding of Richie Cunningham and Melissa Sherman, the wedding of Brian Fleischmann and Andrea Owen and the Beloved Cycles t-shirt.

Maik Twelsiek has been one of the fastest cyclists at Ironman Hawaii the last few years. But while he loves to ride his bike hard, he wants to close out that big race and other ones like it equally fast.

Today we present a few interesting cyclo-cross options above $2,500. Featured on slowtwitch are bikes from Felt, Scott, Stevens, Giant, Cannondale, Vanilla, Ridley and Seven.

Charlie Patten started the Rev3 series full time in 2010 with a larger total purse than Lifetime Fitness and a bigger payout for his Quassy half than the WTC’s Ironman 70.3 Worlds. He says he’s on track to profits by 2012.

Bicycles are constructs of assemblies. Of course you know this already! But I’m talking strictly about how bikes fit. The notion that a frame alone determines fit is entirely wrong.

The defining fit characteristics of bikes are no longer solely contained in the frame. Or even the aerobars. Today’s superbikes focus on the sins of the stem and anything round sitting above the frame.

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on color options for Garmin’s Forerunner 210, high-end scales from Withings and Tanita, and the difficulties with getting raw heart rate data for analysis.

Our look at bike lights for safety & visibility continues. In the second article of this new series, we test the 550 lumen, German-made Lupine Piko 3 on a helmet and on a custom-made, but simple, aerobar mount.

The cyclo-cross season for 2010 is pretty much over, but it is not too late to ride one of these very versatile bikes. We looked at the Fisher Presidio, Blue Norcross EX, Specialized CruX Elite, Focus Mares AX1, Cannondale CAADX SRAM Rival and Ridley X-Ride.

The holidays are almost here and we have a few gift ideas for you. We noticed Justin’s Nut Butter, the Knog Hot Dog bag, the Rocky Stories book, the Betty Designs ISM Adamo saddle and the Mavic Tri Helium shoes.

Welcome to our new series on bike lights for safety & visibility. In the first article of this new series, we take a look at Orange County, CA’s Cygolite MityCross 400.

The current bike build project is the highly anticipated Scott Plasma 3 and the initial setup of this bike is done. Enjoy this Scott Plasma 3 gallery.

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers questions on Garmin footpod orientation, and suggestions for waterproof watches and HR monitors for women.

Triathlon Team Foxcatcher millionaire sponsor John du Pont, whose mental health deteriorated into murderous delusion, died in a Pennsylvania prison.