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The Garmin Ecosystem

What Is An Ecosystem Company? Garmin acquired FirstBeat Analytics in June of 2020, the news made relatively little impact. I think most of that was timing, as it came during the peak of the pandemic lockdown. It also wasn’t much of a change for end users, as Garmin had already been using FirstBeat – as […]

IRONMAN World Championship Qualifying + Pro Series Update

With IRONMAN World Championship Qualification having wrapped up after Frankfurt, let’s dive into who made it to Nice and Kona. We will then also look at (& try to make sense of) the Pro Series standings. Both the men’s and women’s IRONMAN championship fields are roughly composed of the same number of athletes ranked within […]

5 Training Mistakes to Avoid

Even the most well-intentioned athlete can fall victim to some of the most common mistakes with their training. It’s all too easy to get caught up in the details and miss the forest for the trees. It’s important to take a step back, eliminate emotion and bias, and evaluate your training at face value every […]

Pohle Goes Back to Back, Noodt Dominates at 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun

The last Pro Series race before the women’s and men’s IRONMAN World Championships took place this morning in Austria. Athletes got to sleep in a little, with an 11:00am local start time for 70.3 Zell am See-Kaprun. Conditions, however, were not favorable. Temperatures hovered in the mid-seventies Fahrenheit, with a fair amount of humidity. The […]