Your building fitness and ability in all three sports now. Let’s talk about how swim, bike and run relate to each other in terms of time spent and fitness gained.

Enjoy this look at new jammers from TYR, an entry level wetsuit from Profile-Design, a cycling jacket by Rapha, a carbon armchair and casual sneakers from Chrome.

2007 70.3 World Champion Andy Potts captured the 2009 Ironman 70.3 Timberman event with a race best 1:16:20 run. 2-time Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington held off a hard charging Catriona Morrison to win the women’s race.

The 2003 Powerman Zofingen champion finishes 41st of 60 finishers with a personal best time of 2:40:18 in the IAAF World Championship women’s marathon in Berlin

2008 Olympic Champion Jan Frodeno finally awakens for his first win in 2009, unleashing a dominating run after breaking away on the bike to win the Yokohama World Championship Series Round 7

Two-time ITU Under-23 World Championship silver medalist Jasmine Oeinck added the USAT senior Elite Nationals crown to her record; Matt Chrabot outruns Tim O’Donnell and upsets defending champ Matt Reed.

2008 70.3 World Champion Terenzo Bozzone held off 2008 Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack to win the 2009 Cobra 70.3 Philippines in a time of 3:51:25. The women’s title was taken by Lisa Bentley in 4:24:29.

Joe Maloy of Brighton, Massachusetts wins USAT Nationals overall by 12 seconds over Sean Jefferson of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; Kaitlin Shiver of Satellite Beach, Florida dominates women’s field with 2:08:13 at Tuscaloosa

After seconds at Madrid, Hamburg and London, Sweden’s Lisa Norden outruns Andrea Hewitt to win the 7th round of the ITU World Championship series in Yokohama while series leader Emma Moffatt rests.

The 2007 U23 World Champion Lisa Norden has matured quite a bit and sits in second place in the Dextro Energy ITU World Championship Series. She is currently in Yokohama, Japan and had a few words with slowtwitch before the big race.

Pro and amateur triathletes will be competing in races around the globe this weekend, including but not limited to Malaysia 70.3, Timberman 70.3, Dextro Energy WCS Yokohama and the USAT Elite National Championships. We point out some of the folks to watch.

Today we are introducing you to a saddle from Fizik, a tool from Topeak, news from USAT, a seat post from Lynskey Performance, a cancer ride in Texas and an insane sandwich. Enjoy.

Part 2 of our 2009 Leadville 100 photo galleries features the race towards the finish line.

On an epic day, Eric Wynn represented slowtwitch.com at the Leadville 100 mountain bike event and captured stunning photos.

Up-and-comer Sebastian Kienle tops swift-running Michael Raelert by 51 seconds and breaks Al-Sultan’s course record by 5:52; Yvonne Van Vlerken’s course record 4:42:46 tops Finland’s Tiina Boman by 2:01

Tasmanian pro Joe Gambles follows up his Vineman 70.3 course record with a dominating win at Lake Stevens 70.3; Becky Lavelle outruns Heather Wurtele for a 68-second margin of victory

It seems that there is currently no stopping of Alistair Brownlee. On his home turf in London, UK, the 21-year old Brownlee won his fourth Dextro Energy ITU World Championship Series race in as many attempts.

Swiss athlete Nicola Spirig took the title at the London Dextro Energy Triathlon – ITU World Championship Series thanks to a very impressive performance on the bike. Emma Moffatt remains as the Dextro Energy series leader.

At age 31, with boyfriend Conrad Stoltz on her crew, Xterra veteran and full time nurse Amber Monforte smashed the Ultraman Canada women’s course record and went quicker than the best Ultraman women’s time set in Hawaii in 1989.

Charlotte Kolters finished right in between Chrissie Wellington and Yvonne Van Vlerken at the 2008 European Long Course Championships in Almere, and would be quite fine with a similar position in Kona later this year.

The heart of this 8-week Ironman campaign, weeks 3 thru 5, is not designed to get you ready for the race, rather for the ultimate “indicator” workouts prior to the taper.

This is the week you’re finally firing on all eight cylinders. By now you’ve got all the meaningful paraphernalia you need for all three sports, and you’re ready to start riding. Good, because your riding starts this week.

This week we have noticed an entry-level wetsuit from Aquaman, a handcrafted frame by Rafael, an interesting Performance music video, valve extenders from Sampson and a suncream from Blue Lizard.

Joanna Zeiger is her sport’s Job of elusive-to-diagnose and tough-to-treat maladies. After winning a four-year battle with back and leg woes, now her toughest opponent is a recurring case of the dizzies.