Jason West won it on the runs and Alicia Kaye won it on the bike and final run in the swim-canceled Philadelphia Escape Triathlon.

Haley Chura outran Jen Annett and Matt Hanson outran Tim Reed to take close victories at Ironman 70.3 Coeur d’Alene.

Laura Lindemann of Germany out sprinted Jolanda Annen and Vendula Frintova to win the ETU Sprint European Championship.

Lionel Sanders and Holly Lawrence blitzed their rivals on the bike and defended their titles at Mont-Tremblant 70.3.

Arthur Forissier of France and Michelle Flipo of Mexico won the 8th XTERRA Switzerland

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.”

The first of three reviews of Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness’s new book, “Peak Performance” crowdsourced from our user forum. Here Dan Kennison, founder of Premier Bike, brings his perspective as an entrepreneur and amateur athlete to bear. Also includes an intro to the book and the three reviewers.

Kristen Johnson writes there “is no excuse” though also cites her inability to “make good decisions” on illness or medical issues.

In 36 years of adult-onset pool training, I was never a user of earplugs, either in the open water or in the pool. Until this year.

Canadian age grouper Kristen Johnson was disqualified at IRONMAN 70.3 Syracuse after a man said he noticed her tampering with his wife’s bike.

Profile Design has just come out with new, and industry leading, front-end products for tri. This is important!

The Occidental Lanzarote Mar hotel has built facilities to attract the growing athletic market.

Leanda Cave and Kevin Collington outran their rivals to prevail at Ironman 70.3 Costa Rica.

Michael Raelert of Germany and Annabel Luxford of Australia won the IM 70.3 European Championship at Elsinore, Denmark.

Joao Pereira of Portugal edged Raphael Montoya of France at ETU European Championship at Kitzbühel.

Alexandra Tondeur and Kenneth Vandendriessche earn a Belgian sweep at Ironman 70.3 Luxembourg.

Boris Stein topped Trevor Wurtele by 4:33 and Daniela Sämmler edged Heather Wurtele by 1:08 at the Challenge Heilbronn Half.

Giulio Molinari won it on the run and Lucy Gossage did the same to rule Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire.

Records were broken and new champions emerged at the 2017 ÖtillÖ Swimrun Isles of Scilly and here are some amazing images by Jakob Edholm.

Jessica Learmonth of Great Britain topped fellow Brit Sophie Coldwell to win the ETU European Championship at Kitzbühel.

High winds led to cancellation of the swim as Ben Kanute and Lauren Goss won the Escape From Alcatraz duathlon. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.

Ben Kanute blitzed the hilly Alcatraz bike and run courses on Sunday to win one of triathlon’s classic races, contested without a swim leg.

After 3 months of testing, here is the question I pledged to answer at the beginning: Does it work?

Alistair Brownlee rebounded from a meltdown in a half-distance to win the Columbia Threadneedle World Leeds Triathlon. Jonny 2nd, Alarza 3rd.