“Life moves pretty fast,” noted Ferris Bueller. ” If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” You could miss the new swim skins legally usable in Kona, Cancun, Cozumel, and elsewhere.

In part 2 of Paula Newby-Fraser’s amazing Ironman career “It’s not so easy” chapter of Timothy Carlson’s story in the “17 Hours to Glory” book we learn about her relationship with Erin Baker and much more.

The second installment of our new weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics with Ray Maker of DCRainmaker.com covers a question about the Vector from Metrigear and various other items.

We spent a day with German rising talent Sebastian Kienle while he was in the Freiburg area for a training block with his coach.

Baseball has Fenway Park. Auto racing has Monaco. Triathlon’s similar jewel is the Triathlon at Pacific Grove. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.

Over the next 4 days we’ll publish 1 of the 17 chapters of “17 hours to Glory.” “It’s not so easy” is chronicling Paula Newby-Fraser’s amazing Ironman career and was written by Timothy Carlson, and today you get to enjoy part 1 of that chapter.

Bahram Akradi pioneered a revolution in big prize money triathlon which rewarded Olympic distance triathletes with big league dough. Now he, Toyota and partners fight a down economy to keep the series self sustaining success

Trek has finally come out to play in the sport of triathlon. They engage in every price range with a bike that’s imaginative and well conceived. The Speed Concept 7.5 is a strong entry in the mid-$3000 category.

The Plasma 2 frame was unobtainable during 2010 for a price below $5000. For 2011, this high quality frameset can be had in a bike selling complete, with a very nice gruppo, for $3300. Today we take a look at that bike.

The industry has chosen pitched battle at a price range between $3300 and $3700. The Slice 3 sits right in the middle, and it holds its own admirably. Plasmas, Transitions, Speed Concepts, this is your worthy competitor.

The Aussie Emmas ruled the day in Budapest, with Emma Snowsill taking the Grand Final win and Emma Moffat the World Championship title.

Emma Snowsill came back from injury to win the Dextro Energy-ITU Grand Final , Emma Moffatt took second in the Grand Final in Budapest, but won her second World Championship Series title.

The Rev3Tri season finale, a full ultra distance race, was won by South African James Cunnama and America’s Amy Marsh. The season series championships were taken by David Thompson and Sam Warriner

Aussie Joe Gambles had a nice Ironman debut with a win at the 2010 Ford Ironman Wisconsin, but he had to chase down a few folks to get it done. Kiwi Gina Crawford broke her own course record from 2007 and won the women’s race with a superb performance.

In this gallery from the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary we mostly have U23 athletes, but a few age groupers made it too.

Alistair Brownlee won the final of the 2010 WCS in Budapest, but Javier Gomez became the World Champion.

Jonathan Brownlee made it a perfect weekend for British Triathlon and the Brownlee family with his win in the U23 category after his brother Alistair won the Elite on the same day. Aussie Emma Jackson took charge very early and held on to win in the female U23 event.

Alistair Brownlee edged Javier Gomez by four seconds for the World Championship Series Grand Final; but Gomez grabbed the WCS points title despite an incident during the bike segment.

The 2010 Dextro Energy ITU WCS Finals are almost upon us and we are in Budapest to cover the event. We captured a few impressions from the days leading up to the big event in Budapest, Hungary.

Jan Frodeno favored to win World Championship Series points title, but Javier Gomez should win the Grand Final at Budapest. Timothy Carlson offers the odds and urges offended competitors to prove him wrong.

With Emma Snowsill still fighting lingering physical woes, sensational newcomer Paula Findlay of Canada is favored for the Grand Final at Budapest; Moffatt, Norden, Hewitt, Jenkins, Riveros-Diaz and Spirig fight it out for the WCS title.

Welcome to our new weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics with Ray Maker of DCRainmaker.com. Read, learn, enjoy, and send in your questions for next week!

A few weeks ago Julie Dibens and Mirinda Carfrae had fun with a little online swimming trash talk on twitter and facebook and the Ironman 70.3 World Champions then decided to have a swim off challenge.

We noticed the fast Continental Podium TT tire, the Kona legal blueseventy PZ3 TX, the passionate Rafael Hoffleit, interesting patches from Knog and the unique Fahrstil magazine.