For those who think anything over 300 word is tl;dr: It’ll be up in the aggregate, but the median race will be flat or down.

For the Butterfields, John Denver is on the iPod. Horses, llamas, goats, chickens, guinea fowl, and a peacock. But Bermuda is not forgotten.

A terrible accident a few days before the 2017 IRONMAN World Championships took Brit Tim Don out of the race. The Halo finally came off, but he is still a long way from being fully recovered.

For your consideration, Timothy Carlson presents his some of his favorite triathlon photographs of the 2017 season.

Slowtwitch is lucky to have superswimmers in the community. One is Tim Liebhold, and he shares his tips for Adult Onset Swimmers

Are you able to perform one-arm pulls as described? If so, you are swimming hip-driven freestyle! Now let’s begin to focus on how you pull.

With all the visual excitement of triathlon, sometimes the well spoken word can have a lasting impact worth a thousand pictures.

The power of the training enclave is huge; it’s how most of the world’s best athletes got to be good, and remain good.

Genetics wins when you’re 11. But the older you get the more genetics falls to the point of being an inconsequential factor.

I tend to travelogue our family Slowcations here, and here is our latest: open water swimming in Bermuda.

From the sublime to the absurd in 2017, records were set, hopes dashed, some arrived and others bade farewell.

You retain the vestigial behaviors from the time you were still struggling with learning to breathe to the side. Let’s deal with those.

It’s not just about learning good technique. A lot of late-onset triathletes quit because they never understand the Big Idea.

We’re in the home stretch. Only a few more days to go. But lots of amazing offerings in this year’s Annual Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief!

I have less confidence in today’s installment than any I’ve already written, or any that I’m going to write. But I rank this rather high.

When you have a hard time doing these drills you should rejoice! They expose problems, and we can’t cure what we can’t identify.

No more KPR and PR 70.3 pro points in 2019 – Kona and 70.3 Worlds will return to slot qualifying.

Neutral, Stability and Motion Control, run shoe tech’s onetime Holy Trinity, have also caught the last train for the coast. (Pardon us, Don McLean.)

Two men. Two contrasting talents. Two strategies. Three days. 321 miles. For an Ultra, razor thin margin.

There are more important elements to success than this one, but a mediocre understanding of sport usually begets mediocre finishes.

Improving your hull is an exercise in 2 planes: feet on the surface (vertical plane); and feet moving forward, not side to side (horizontal plane).

Frequency of run sessions, not bulk miles, is the metric. Exit the Challenge in time to enter the season a stronger runner.

German Pro Andi Böcherer spent two weeks in a winter training camp on Fuerteventura and here are impressions and details from those two weeks.

When Tyler Butterfield placed 7th at the Ironman in 2013, he only tied for the highest ever finish in Kona. Here’s a Butterfield you don’t know.