Challenge Family announced a Triple Crown series and very impressive $1,000,000 prize purse during the awards ceremony of the inaugural Challenge Bahrein.

As in past years, the first 100 donors to Jordan Rapp’s World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge will get a special prize. This year, it’s a limited edition World Bicycle Relief trucker hat from BOCO Gear.

The original überbiker had found a home as the Senior Triathlon Coach at the extraordinary sports facilities of the Thanyapura Phuket triathlon academy in Laguna Phuket, Thailand.

Are these the most advanced cycling metrics produced by a power meter? This crank-based unit measures power every 30 degrees during a complete pedal rotation on both the left and right side.

German age grouper Lukas Krämer won the M30-34 age group at the 2014 GoPro Ironman Worlds and he surely had the coolest race kit on the Big Island.

Catching images of the brave souls who competed in 107 degrees heat and survived the rugged hills at Challenge Laguna Phuket. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.

Throughout November around 40 men of triathlon grew mustaches to raise awareness and money for Movember. Here now are the top 23 fundraisers of the bunch.

Aero. Is. Everything. So goes the mantra for Specialized’s aerodynamic product development engineering team. They believe in it so much they built their own wind tunnel. Now you can win a once-in-a-lifetime chance to spend a day with them seeing just how much faster they can make you.

This review was almost a year in the making, but for a shoe of this price I thought it prudent to make sure it would stand up to everything I could throw at it.

In 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit heat and over 90 percent humidity, riding a bike course with viciously steep hills, Ruedi Wild and Melissa Hauschildt won Challenge Laguna Phuket.

A race dominated by Josh Amberger and Anja Beranek in Australia, a Challenge event in Brazil, and Ironman Cozumel filled our Weekend Box.

Challenge Laguna Phuket contenders, a camera crew and director Peter Henning, and a few tri journos take a trip to a farm on a small island in nearby Phangnga Bay

For the sixth consecutive year, First Endurance comes on board in a big way to help fuel the 6th Annual Rappstar Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief. Get a chance to win one of two $600 gift certificates.

The jewel of Thailand’s southern coast welcomes the second edition of Challenge Laguna Phuket with a select field of pros who will be greeted by an elephant at the finish.

The next awesome prize up in the 6th Annual Rappstar Charity Challenge is the top-of-the-line Compex Sport Elite muscle stimulator. Simply put, it’s the best training and recovery tool on the market. Get a chance to win one while making a difference with World Bicycle Relief

Steve Hed eagerly shared time with the geeks, the bicycle engineers, executives heading other brands; and a steady stream of pros. But it was the geeks and engineers he most loved.

Steve Hed collapsed from unknown causes, and is dead at the age of 59. He was the manufacturing entrepreneur with the longest pedigree in the sport, his company the first-ever triathlon brand.

This week we are thankful to have noticed the Kask Infinity helmet, the TrainingMask, the 3T Illumina line, the Fontus water system, MOs and gators and more.

Some Pros manage themselves while many use an agent or manager to sort through the business end so they can focus on racing and training. But what makes an agent an asset?

Italians Massimo Casadei and Alberto Casadei decided it was too darn hot to race to the finish and finished together as Laguna Phuket Triathlon dual winners; Parys Edwards won the women’s title.

We bumped into Glenn Cook at an event with Hunter Kemper and Glenn was a super chatty Cathy. But it all changed when the spotlight of an interview was on him.

The legendary Michellie Jones talks about her continued support of World Bicycle Relief, where she’s been a great supporter of both the organization on its own and Jordan Rapp’s annual fundraiser.

You have been waiting for it all year and you can now pre-order the 2015 Men Of Triathlon calendar, and best of all – you could actually be in it too.

Slowtwitch.com also had Kerry Yndestad on the ground in Tempe and here are his fine colorful impressions from the 2014 Ironman Arizona Pro race.