In barely a month USA Cycling joins the UCI in legislating the Randy Newman ethic: “Don’t want no short people round here.” Fortunately, there is a deceptively easy alternative for both of cycling’s governing bodies.

We have followed the 2007 Ironman World Championships via the internet on race day, discussed it feverishly in the forum and checked out all kinds of websites and magazines since. Now we’ll get to see the NBC coverage on Saturday.

Several people had thrown around the idea of a Triathlon specific festival / trade show, but to this day this has not really happened. It now appears that Trifest 2008 in Tucson, Arizona will step up to the plate.

XTERRA just announced their 2008 America Tour schedule.

This year’s Ultraman Hawaii winner Jonas Colting, tells what the race was like, how he prepared and shares some of the thoughts that went through his head. Part 1 of 2.

Michael Lovato had a great 2007 season with 3rd places at IMAZ and IMCDA and a top 10 finish at the Ironman Worlds in Kona. We had a chance to talk with this Boulder, Colorado transplant.

Floyd Landis, Fabian Cancellara, Dave Zabriskie, Levi Leipheimer have all raced with the “hands in face” position. John Cobb pulls out of his wind tunnel archives an analysis of hand heights.

Jonas Colting won the 2007 Ultraman Triathlon World Championships, and Shanna Armstrong earned her 4th title of this 6.2 mile swim, 261.4 mile bike and 52.4 mile run event. Top 5 results.

Aussie Luke Bell is an amazingly talented triathlete who has been the runner up at several Ironman races and finished as high as 5th place at the Ironman World Championships in Kona. We had a few words with him.

The St. Pete Mad Dogs are one of larger and better known triathlon clubs in the country. Their president Tim Hudson talked to us about the club with the distinctive bark.

The Eastern Ontario based Cornwall Multisport is fairly new, but grew fairly quick because of a few unique initiatives and programs. We spoke with their president Rob Allen.

As part of a new series called “the bikes of the pros” we will be looking a bit closer at the race machines of several pro athletes. We start the series here with the bike of Torbjorn Sindballe.

Courting triathletes from college football rival states Michigan and Ohio, Team Toledo currently has more than 300 members. We had a chance to chat with their president Khalil Raffoul.

Tri bike fitters using the F.I.S.T. system often find they need a size bigger bike for their customers versus what the fit session indicates. Here’s why.

The New Mexico Outlaws are a triathlon racing team with a great attitude and some fun nicknames. We talked to their president Brian “Baboo” Pilgrim.

Bryan Rhodes and Bjorn Andersson announced that they would hold their first Power Camp for triathletes in Taupo, New Zealand.

Big Estonian Ain-Alar Juhanson is known as a fast and powerful cyclist, but he has shown at Ironman Lanzarote and the shortened Ironman New Zealand that he can run too. We recently interviewed him.

We have seen quite a bit of interest in Quarq and Quarq Technology on our forum and decided to ask Jim Meyer the man behind Quarq a few questions.

Australian Craig Alexander had an amazing 2007 season and is now finally able to relax with his wife Neri and daughter Lucy. Craig and Neri were kind enough though to give Slowtwitch a few minutes.

Alex Mroszczyk-McDonald was the top amateur at the 2007 Ford Ironman Word Championships in Kona and we wanted to know a bit more about this athlete and med student from Vermont.

Our “Eight days of Florida” are behind us. Lessons are there to be learned.

Hunter Kemper combined a fast bike split and a great second run to secure his win, while Julie Ertel ran away from the competition during the second run.

Andy Potts (USA) outsprinted Oscar Galindez in the last few hundred yards to earn his first World Championship title and in the women’s race Mirinda Carfrae (AUS) outran her competition en route to her big win.

3 big triathlon events this weekend will unofficially close out the 2007 North American triathlon season. Here is what is coming.