Ironman announced today that selected North American Ironman and Ironman 70.3 races will feature split professional start fields starting in 2016.

The Weekend Box offers accounts of a hard fought 70.3 in Calgary, a rugged XTERRA, Ironman Lake Placid and the finish of a 50 Ironmans in 50 days quest.

Bart Aernouts won the inaugural Enea Challenge Poznan ahead of James Cunnama. Diana Riesler grabbed the women’s title over Radka Vodickova.

Viktor Zyemtsev made a late race pass on Kyle Buckingham and Danielle Mack overtook home country favorite Melanie McQuaid late in the run to win IM Canada.

At the 2015 Ironman European Championships in Frankfurt, Germany our man Karsten Täschner noticed a custom painted Hawaiian themed Specialized Transition.

Swiss long course star Ronnie Schildknecht just bagged his 8th victory at Ironman Switzerland; now he is focused on finally cracking the podium at the Ironman World Championship in Kona.

During the 2015 Datev Challenge Roth we captured slow motion bike videos of male pros Andrew Starykowicz, Nils Frommhold, Timo Bracht, Per Bittner and Chris Bagg.

Experience the 2015 WTS Hamburg race from the bike and mind of American Eric Lagerstrom with a great inside video. Thanks to Pioneer you can also see his power.

Challenge Roth had about 6,000 volunteers this year and these fans are fully involved. The Challenge family thanks the volunteers with a big shindig called Helferfest.

Ben True is America’s top 5k road runner with a 13:22 PR and is a strong 5,000-meter Olympic candidate. Sarah True’s husband talks about sport, drug testing, and fair play.

ÖtillÖ started the SwimRun movement, and now the Rockman event in Norway draws inspiration from the Norseman Extreme Triathlon.

Jackson Dovey came to Ironman Texas with high hopes but they quickly were deflated, and he then shifted his focus to Coeur D’Alene where he grabbed the golden ticket.

Here are some stunning impressions by Jakob Edholm from the 2015 Engadin SwimRun event in the Swiss Alps with 53k of trail running and open water swimming

We collected several slow motion bike studies of top females at the 2015 Datev Challenge Roth, and here is your chance to view them.

When I started cycling frame builders did not make frames to destroy them. Today they do. Your frame has a lot of dead cousins or, if not, it should.

An Ironman in Merry Olde England, an XTERRA in the Rocky Mountains, a 70.3 hosted in Wisconsin and a Big Apple Olympic distance.

Ronnie Schildknecht won a record 8th Ironman Switzerland title with a come-from-behind marathon and Beth Gerdes passed Mary Beth Ellis on the run to win Zurich.

Vicky Holland pushed Gwen Jorgensen harder than any time during her unbeaten streak, but the American surged to a 5-seconds margin for her 11th straight WTS victory.

With the Brownlee brothers taking the weekend off, Vincent Luis of France out-dueled defending world champion Javier Gomez of Spain to win the sprint distance WTS Hamburg.

Diego Paredes and Brooke Brown won the 2015 Triathlon Vitoria-Gasteiz long course event and here are images from that stunning area in Spain.

The Midwesterner and former wrestler is a strong contender in half Ironman distance events and with coach Michael Lovato has set his sights high.

Felt has compelling models at the top (IA) and at entry level (B Series). It just announced a new IA that slots nicely in between.

Two frames pop out of the same mold. One is twice as expensive as the other. What justifies the big price variance? Is it all just marketing?

Callum Millward talks with Angela Naeth about Texas, Kona, equality, feuds, triathlon couples and more on the second Cupcakes with Cal episode of 2015.