How Important is a Sports Background?
It’s not just about learning good technique. A lot of late-onset triathletes quit because they never understand the Big Idea.
by Slowman, December 30, 2017
It’s not just about learning good technique. A lot of late-onset triathletes quit because they never understand the Big Idea.
by Slowman, December 30, 2017
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.
It’s that time of the year again! For the ninth year in a row, it is time for the annual WBR fundraiser that puts bikes into the hands of MANY well-deserving folks around the world.
The second installment of my Most Important Elements series. I don’t think I realized how broke I was. I had a lot of fun.
Masters teams are where you get faster. Here is a guide to Masters culture and behavior for the triathlete.
Last week 1,400 of you chose among 8 elements which determined ultimate athletic success. Here are your choices, and by contrast mine.
Let’s disagree on much. But those who traverse the land under human powered locomotion should be of one mind on our public lands.
It’s week-1 of the Guppy Challenge. Goal? Exit the swim with a faster class of athletes.
Phillips and Watkinson led a Kiwi sweep of Ironman 70.3 Taupo, turned into a duathlon due to potentially toxic algae.
All dumb trainers needed was a little remedial help. Now you can Zwift, TrainerRoad, PerfPro, FulGaz, for cheap, cheap, cheap.
Piampiano outruns Deckers, Chrabot tops Jozsef Major by 6:06 at Ironman Argentina.
After swim canceled due to a shark sighting, Terenzo Bozzone and Melissa Hauschildt win IM Western Australia.
Kevin Collington of the U.S. and Diana Castillo of Colombia win Ironman 70.3 Cartagena.
German Christian Haupt was the top age grouper in Kona in 2017 and he follows in the footsteps of many other Germans who have accomplished the same feat.
Our most popular swim-faster regimen begins on December 11, and will last 10 weeks. Lots of swimmers fix what ails them here!