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$63,100

 $63,100. That was the tally for the 9th Annual World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge, putting us right around $600,000 raised over the nine years of this endeavor.
Industry

The Magic 5

 The Magic 5, a small Danish company co-founded by a triathlete, his engineer uncle, and a national team swimmer, aims to use the availability of these tools to change the way swim goggles are made. They developed a proprietary face-scanning app which maps every contour of your face and - in particular - your eye sockets in three-dimensions. From there, they can create fully custom gaskets unique to each eye - and pair them with the exact right nose-bridge from their wide selection of pre-made widths to create a pair of goggles that matches perfectly to you.
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Splitting The Field In Chattanooga

 Before the race has even begun, the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga, TN is already a watershed moment in the history of Ironman racing. For the first time, men and women will compete on different days. Totally separate races have long been a fixture on the draft-legal ITU elite circuit, but never before has Ironman split the field at a world championship race.
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The Professor’s Take. Peak Performance Review Two.

 Gail Gottfried, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Pitzer College, reviews "Peak Performance" in the second of our crowdsourced reviews. Gottfried writes that the book is, "compelling and hard to put down," but that, "readability sometimes comes at the expense of precision."