Dan Hugo of South Africa dominated the men’s contest, with a 5:43 margin of victory over Ryan Ignatz; Lesley Paterson had a tougher time dispatching Shonny Vanlandingham by 2:43 at XTERRA East.

New Zealander Bevan Docherty topped Canadian Brent McMahon by 1:41 and super-runner Liz Lyles of Reno, Nevada topped Heather Jackson by 7:23 to win Ironman 70.3 Boise Saturday.

British Pro Rich Allen resides in Statesville, NC with his family and we checked out his Shimano Di2 equipped Boardman AiR TT 9.8 race bike.

We continue our series on power meters; this time hitting sophomore level 201. We do some detailed file analysis, and see if different head units affect your data.

Chicago will be the site of the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series Grand Final, following Orlando in 1990 and Cleveland in 1996 as the third U.S. city to host the ITU‘s elite World Championship Olympic distance season finale.

Axel Merckx recently competed in the Oliver Half triathlon and finished 4th overall in 4:28:33. For a man who is busy with many other obligations that is not shabby considering this was his first and possibly only triathlon attempt.

Evelyn Stevens of Team Specialized-Lululemon won the 2013 Amgen Tour of California TT on an S-Works Shiv TT and we took a closer look at her bike.

South African Dan Hugo is best known for his XTERRA exploits, but he also has done a few road events. He is currently getting ready for XTERRA Richmond.

Bree Wee was leading her home town race, Ironman 70.3 Hawaii, by a defensible margin when she took a wrong turn off the run course, backtracked, and fell from 1st to 3rd in a heartbreaking twist of fate.

There’s a set of imperatives now for clip-ons. At least if I’m going to ride them. There are mandatory functions. Here are some clip-ons that hit the mark, or come darned close.

Hillary Biscay recently finished her 60th Ironman and she has been quite busy otherwise too with a new business venture and being relatively newly married.

Pennsylvania native Scott Zwizanski races for the Optum Pro Cycling team and we had the opportunity to check out his Orbea Ordu race bike.

Kevin and Nikki Garwood were inspired by Dick and Rick Hoyt and they recently finished the spec-savers Ironman South Africa together.

The much-loved Slowtwitch Mailbag has come back in a new revised and expanded version. Submit your questions, and we’ll do our best to find the answers for you.

Joe Gambles and Heather Wurtele took the wins at the 2013 Revolution3 Quassy Half. Here now is an image gallery from the racing action there.

At the 2013 US Pro Cycling TT Champs we managed to check out the SRAM & Zipp equipped Felt DA race bike of Alison Tetrick of team Exergy TWENTY16.

Greg and Laura Bennett dominated the men’s and women’s fields at Ironman 70.3 Raleigh; Greg used a dominant bike and run to win by 13 minutes 17 seconds and Laura won by 3:56 over Emma-Kate Lidbury.

Another brilliant performance by Jonathan Brownlee allowed him to take the win at the 2013 ITU World Triathlon Series event in Madrid, Spain. Javier Gomez finished second and Ivan Vasiliev finished third.

Joe Gambles took the win at the 2013 Revolution3 Quassy Triathlon with Richie Cunningham in second place and Bevan Docherty in third. Heather Wurtele bested Heather Jackson to take the women’s title.

Heavy rain and cold temperatures had changed the Ironman 70.3 Switzerland to a duathlon, but a landslide and a falling tree early on during the bike segment forced organizers to stop the race and abort the event.

Australians Clayton Fettell and Emma Moffatt won the men’s and women’s titles at the Coral Coast 5150 in Cairns; Fettell edged ITU star Brad Kahlefeldt by 1:10 while Moffatt dominated the women by a 14:12 margin.

The very talented Non Stanford stormed to her first ITU World Triathlon Series win in Madrid, Spain with German Anne Haug in second place and fellow Brit Jodie Stimpson on the final podium spot.

Bertrand Billard of France is the new ITU Long Distance World Champion and Melissa Hauschildt of Australia bested the women’s field in this 9.5km run, 87km bike, 20km run event that had to be changed to a duathlon because of unusually cold temps.

Three-time Ironman World Champion Craig Alexander crushed the bike and tied for fastest run to take the men’s title; Belinda Granger inherited the women’s win when Bree Wee ran off course at Ironman 70.3 Hawaii.