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Best of 2010 – Portraits

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

Photos of 2010 – the Swim

A 2010 gallery of Timothy Carlson’s favorite images of triathlon’s first leg – the swim action. Enjoy these very fine shots.

What We Have Noticed: Biestmilch, fi’zi:k, Trix …

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.

USAT’s evolving mission

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.

A new ride for Mirinda Carfrae

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.

2010 Tri Year in Review

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.

Who is a Slowtwitcher?

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.

2010 Tri Talk Of The Year

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.

What We Have Noticed: Manzella, Labello …

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.

Inside the mind of Maik Twelsiek

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.

2011 cyclo-cross bling bling

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.

The Rev3 Triathlon series

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.