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$72,124

Wrapping up the 7th annual Rappstar Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief. In 2015, we raised $72,124, enough to put 491 bicycles into the field. Thank you to everyone who supported another incredible year. In seven years, we’ve raised over $450,000.

Who is an Athlete?

When you read Clarence King’s Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, it feels like extreme and endurance sports undertaken on the boss’s dime.

Schnell und Sicher in Germany

A proposed 100km bike path in the heart of Germany has cyclists around the world excited and envious about this “Fahrrad-Autobahn”, but it is not so simple.

Garmin announces Varia Vision

Garmin joins the heads-up display race with the Varia Vision, and this CES-launched offering promises to be compatible with most sports glasses on the market.

The Triathlete’s How-To Guide To Skate Skiing

Our winter editor Jon ‘Fast Big Dog’ Schafer is back with his next video-rich installment on nordic skiing. Everything you ever wanted to know about skate skiing and more is contained in this next drop. So get your waxing iron ready and check it out.

Changes for Andy Potts

New bike (Cannondale) and apparel (Sugoi) sponsor, new amateur club-team… Andy Potts just turned 39 but he’s only warming up.

TBI Conference for 2016

Triathlon’s most skillful sausage makers headline TBI’s annual Conference upcoming, but the Conference’s freshest voice might be that of Norseman’s Dag Oliver.

No Skill for Living

My long tenure in endurance sport isn’t constancy unless a marooned sailor adrift at sea shows constancy by not quitting his lifeboat.

Letters to a Friend

A man who’s been a member for about three years began a thread. He repented and quickly deleted this post, so only a few saw what he wrote. But I did.

Smart Trainers

Unlike children where a precocious tendency might be a sign of intellect, there is no value in a sassy trainer.

Eric Lagerstrom night running

A compilation of night running video clips by Eric Lagerstrom featuring Magali Tisseyre, Chris Ganter and Derek Garcia. The joy of running at night.

Favorites of 2015 – The Run

Some favorite shots of runners in Caribbean heat, on off road trails in California, on training strides on Boulder, dueling along Oceanside’s run and Kona’s lava.4.

Linsey Corbin is ready for 2016

An endless string of injuries and problems meant only one race in 2015 for Linsey Corbin, but the Bend, OR resident is now embracing the lessons learned.

Turbo Trainers

The ubiquitous product for indoor cycling. Attaches to the rear of the bike, suspends it just above the ground, exerts some form of resistance while you pedal.

Rollers

This month 3 in 10 Slowtwitchers said their year-end spend will be on stationary training, equal to all other sport spending combined. Here is one class of stationary trainer.

Favorites of 2015 – The Bike

Injuries kept Timothy Carlson from several planned races, but he found shots to like from Oceanside 70.3, Wildflower, Boulder 70.3, Boulder Peak, Kona and Ultraman.

2015 personal athlete portraits

Triathletes supplied some creative and heartfelt personal photos to accompany their Slowtwitch interviews in 2015. Many mastered the selfie as their portrait of choice.

2015 race photos by contributors

The growing global reach of Multisport gives us new events in exotic places; Timothy Carlson picked his favorite shots seen in Slowtwitch from around the globe.

Frodeno – Athlete Of The Year

German Jan Frodeno had a stunning season with big wins in Kona, Zell am See and Frankfurt, and made history now in Germany as Athlete Of The Year 2015.