With the accident of Sjaan Gerth on my mind, I found myself serendipitously coming across several quotes that struck a deep chord. For Sjaan, and for everyone else, I wanted to share them.

Challenge is a favorite of pro athletes, but took a hit last week when it dropped the money in 5 of its American races. Where does this place the popular race production brand?

Recent statements from Life Time and Challenge echo similar comments from RDs: Absent significant advance notice of who’s coming to our races, a pro purse is of limited use.

A U.S. breakthrough at the Chengdu World Cup, winners at Gulf Coast and Madrid, the full lineup of Bahrain Endurance Team, and a new coach for Verzbicas.

James Cunnama of South Africa and Caroline Steffen of Switzerland emerged winners of back and forth battles in the heat at Ironman 70.3 Vietnam in Danang.

Davide Giardini has a passion for fast sports – swimming, skiing, kite surfing and most recently triathlon. At 70.3 Texas he surprised many with a superb sub 2 hour bike split.

Andreas Dreitz defended his crown with a sizzling bike split and Daniela Ryf dominated the women with a wire-to-wire performance to win Ironman 70.3 Mallorca.

Sjaan Gerth was the top amateur at 70.3 New Orleans in his 4th triathlon, but a terrible hit and run accident likely ended the endurance sport aspirations of this fast Canadian.

Brad Williams left the military last summer and turned pro early this year. He talked to us about racing, training, marriage, the pro card, bike splits, rumor mongering and more.

Jodie Swallow is part of the Bahrain Endurance 13 team and we had a few words with her about Bahrain, racing, qualifying, equality and much more.

Norwegian triathlete Gudmund Snilstveit raced this very distinctive Swift Neurogen on the challenging course at Ironman 70.3 Pays D’Aix last weekend.

Danish CeramicSpeed announced today the acquisition of the UltraFast Optimization racing chains from the US based Friction Facts company.

At the 33rd Wildflower long course triathlon Jesse Thomas won his 5th straight men’s title, and Heather Jackson fell 200 yards short of a 4-peat thanks to Liz Lyles sprint finish.

Jesse Thomas topped Matt Lieto for a record-extending Wildflower 5-peat; Liz Lyles passed Heather Jackson with 200 meters to go to dash her bid for a 4-peat.

Tim Don ran down Brent McMahon to take the win at the 2015 Ironman 70.3 St. George. Heather Wurtele reeled in Meredith Kessler on the way to the women’s title.

The days before the 33rd Wildflower long course triathlon were filled with calm, chilled out triathletes and fans enjoying perfect sunny weather and a calm vibe at inland Monterey County.

It was late 2007 when we last interviewed Sergio Marques and much has changed for this Portuguese pro since then. Find out more about these changes within.

Chris Borden was the top age grouper at Ironman Chattanooga and his focus is now on Kona. But 5 years ago he was single, smoked and weighed 50 pounds more.

TriEqual, the movement advocating for 15 more pro female slots in Kona (to equal the men’s number) has taken on the issue of the pro women’s start.

New triathletes are ebullient, confident immigrants to new modes of endurance sport, dropping into activities like cycling with big engines but little appreciation for etiquette.

2015 has already been a bit of an emotional roller coaster season for Cam Dye. A nice win at St. Anthony’s Triathlon but also the demise of Life Time Fitness pro purse.

Kellen Hood is a Texas resident with a lot of moxie and during Movember he used it well to raise money, but now it is time to race, train and have a great time.

When Richie Cunningham and several other pros were misdirected on the run course at Ironman 70.3 Texas, they all faced DQs and abandoned the race.

Regard triathlon action of many varieties – draft-legal and non-drafting, pavement and off road, individual and teams – in Taiwan, Fuerteventura, South Carolina, Nevada and Florida.