Escape from Alcatraz 2.0
Is there any defensible explanation for Escape’s fee increase, beyond charging what the market will bear? Slowtwitch asked. Here’s what we found.
by Slowman, October 31, 2015
Is there any defensible explanation for Escape’s fee increase, beyond charging what the market will bear? Slowtwitch asked. Here’s what we found.
by Slowman, October 31, 2015
Mat Steinmetz of 51 SPEEDSHOP worked with Aussie Tim Van Berkel to dial him in on his new Giant Trinity Advanced Pro 0.
Rumors were plentiful, but now it is official: the 2016 IRONMAN Melbourne is cancelled and that means the hunt is on for a new Asia-Pacific Champs location.
This week we noticed an interesting tail light from NiteRider, a super expensive short course race, a bicycle first aid kit, Hell on Orange, a clever Halloween card, and more.
We bring you accounts of exciting triathlon action from Miami and Mexico in North America, Turkey in Europe and Penrith in Australia – three 70.3s and a short course classic.
Matthew Sharp of Great Britain and Yuka Sato of Japan won their first World Cup titles Saturday in the final race of the 2015 ITU World Cup series in Tongyeong.
Brit Susie Cheetham finished 6th in Kona and 7th in Zell am See this year, but as she is now fully devoted to triathlon we can expect to see even more from her.
Jason Gunter lost his right hand and left leg in a boating accident, and his first attempt to finish Kona fell short in 2009. But in 2015 he had a 2nd chance.
After a discouraging setback last year, Timothy O’Donnell hit the reset button and came up with a personal best, top American, 3rd-place finish in Kona.
Orca has a range of products that are great for open water swimming and training, and here we take a look at a few of those items including the wetsuit and dry bag.
German Malte Bruns was the top age grouper at the GoPro Ironman World Championships and here you can meet this young man who started triathlon in 2014.
On October 29th Zwift will begin a phased beta rollout of the Workout Mode they teased at the GoPro Ironman World Championships, and also start to charge.
A date change for the 2016 Formula 1 race in Melbourne, Australia could spell trouble for the Ironman Asia-Pacific Champs as these two events now collide.
Party Time! Forty shops in 32 cities will host a Slowtwitch Road Show in 2016. Here’s a list of metro areas and participating Road Show stores.
Robby MacBeath of Cloudberry Media captured the inaugural Loch Gu Loch SwimRun event in video so we can all experience it in cozy and dry comfort.
A week after Kona, we bring you accounts of a 70.3 and an ITU Duathlon World Championship in Australia, a Challenge half in Spain and, a World Cup in Turkey.
It was hot and the attrition rate was high and here now are running images from the pro men during the 2015 GoPro Ironman World Championships in Kona.
Heather Jackson finished 5th at the 2015 GoPro Ironman World Champs and we took a closer look at her unique custom painted Cannondale Slice.
Seven years after his brilliant stretch run to win Olympic gold, Jan Frodeno authored a carefully balanced swim, bike and run to win the Ironman World Championship.
After long swim and bike legs, the competitors at Kona find a fluid, graceful run form is the best weapon against exhaustion. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.
The run at the end of an Ironman race is always hard, but some athletes make it look effortless. Here now is a gallery of female pros during the IM Kona run.
An athlete may not subordinate his/her race ambitions solely for the benefit of another athletes race ambitions. (Ironman Elite rule Article 2.0.2)
German Maik Twelsiek had the race best 4:25:10 bike split in Kona aboard this black and yellow Dimond, plus we have his power file in our hands too.
While $120,000 is at stake for the men’s and women’s winners, whatever the result, the feeling of joy at the Kona finish line is often priceless.
Here now is the female bike gallery from the 2015 GoPro Ironman World Championships. A perfect perspective to see positions, gear and much more.