Extender: one of the few words rhyming with “ender” that is not in Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender”. This winds Kopecky’s how-to into a race-prep chapter in “Things that Roll”.

We review the 50mm-deep, 23mm-wide Bontrager Aura 5 TLR. With aluminum brake tracks and tubeless compatibility, they aim to bring aero and reliability to the masses.

Jessica Broderick showed a lot of promise by winning the 2009 USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals; after a tough 2013, she broke through to a World Cup podium guided by renowned coach Darren Smith.

In a week-long series we’ll talk about wheels, tubes, tires, how to choose them, prepare them, acclimate yourself to them, and get the most out of them during the race. We begin with a discussion of wheel depth.

Josh Poertner is best known for his work at Zipp where he worked a long time, but 8 months ago he left and invested into the venerable Silca brand.

The World Anti-Doping Agency banned the inhalation of xenon and argon gases, used for a decade by Russian Olympic teams, because they instigated the production of the performance enhancing drug EPO

We cover Ironman Lanzarote, 70.3 Barcelona, XTERRA Southeast, the Memphis in May mud fest and much more in this Weekend Box of May 18, 2014.

Brit Tim Don and Czech Radka Vodickova captured the final Rev3 Pro purses at the popular Rev3 Knoxville event today, but Rev3 is not planning to go away.

Kiwi Bevan Docherty unleashed a run of fury to capture the 2014 Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas in 8:09:37. Texan Kelly Williamson took the women’s title and possibly her finest win in 8:54:42.

After her first clean swim and ride at a World Triathlon Series event this year, Gwen Jorgensen laid down the law on the run to dominate the third WTS round at Yokohama Saturday.

During the Waldo County YMCA Tri in Maine, a triathlete crashed hard because of a car who pulled into the road, and fellow competitor Roberto Lopez-Anido stopped to assist and direct traffic.

Defending World Triathlon Series champion Javier Gomez dropped Jonny Brownlee, Alistair Brownlee, Richard Murray and outsprinted fellow Spaniard Mario Mola to win Yokohama – his 3rd straight WTS in 2014.

Alicia Kaye had a great 2013 season with big wins at St. Anthony’s, Cap Tex and Oceanside and is about to defend that Lifetime Cap Tex title in Austin again. We checked in with her to see what else she is up to.

Joe Anderson was passing another triathlete during the bike segment of the Waldo County YMCA triathlon when according to the Bangor Daily News a car pulled out of a driveway and caused a collision.

This time we noticed the ultra light Hanseeno cycling shoes, the b70 core shorts, the Almanzo 100 gravel race, a nifty cycling accessible coffee shop and more.

The Weekend Box brings you two half Iron distance races from beautiful European resorts, a stirring first World Cup in Chengdu, China, and more

Aussie age grouper Katey Gibb started triathlon recently but she is already tearing it up. At 70.3 Busselton she won her age group and finished 4th overall.

The Challenge Family announced a new half distance race in Bahrain with a very impressive $500,000 prize purse for Pros – eclipsing money offered at all other races of that distance by a massive margin.

Slowtwitch forum member Luis Infante recently shared pics of his very smartly built Felt AR aero race bike and we now have a detailed gallery of it.

Nils Nilsen is one of the finest shooters in triathlon and he is also a super nice guy who is highly respected by other industry folks and media people alike.

We looked closer at the fastest bike splits of triathletes at Challenge Roth over the years compared to those who rode the 112 miles as part of a relay.

The Spy Belgian Waffle Ride is a tough event in SoCal that challenges even seasoned Pros with a distance of 134.5 miles and 10,276 feet of elevation gain.

Lowes motto is “Let’s build something together.” The Slowtwitch DIY training expert, Gloria Liu, is back with how to be your own coach. With Gloria’s tips, let’s build some fitness together.

In our final installment on the “state of tri” we see that youth us up in the U.S., the adult market is flat, as many in industry can attest, but triathlon around the world is booming like never before.