Ben Hoffman dominated the field at the 2012 Ironman Wisconsin in a course record time of 8:32:51. Elizabeth Lyles grabbed the women’s title, but her margin over runner-up Beth Walsh was much tighter.

Nico Lebrun and Helena Erbenova grabbed the wins at the 2012 XTERRA Switzerland Championships. Lebrun took charge of the race during the run and Erbenova moved to the front of the race with a race best bike split.

This year there were two female Norseman champions and Julia Nikolopoulos won the Saturday edition of this stunning event. She even broke the course record in 13:00:40, but that only lasted about 24 hours.

With the Cervelo R3 105 edition you can indeed have your cake and eat it, or maybe better said, the MSRP of $2,600 brings it within reach of quite a few folks.

We have an in-depth chat with nutrition expert, Dr. Allen Lim. Topics include long-course racing, real food, and how a nutrition label may not be telling you the entire story of a food’s value.

Swiss Pro Nicola Spirig captured the Olympic Gold medal in a photo finish over Lisa Norden, and today we look closer at her BH G5 race bike.

The 2013 Trinity Composite 2 helps Giant to establish itself in the sub $2,500 market with a very legitimate entry, and here are a few details.

We look at more new 2013 goodies from the Orbea and Shimano product launch at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Denver, Colorado.

A stunning black and white gallery of the 2012 Hy-Vee 5i50 Championship from photographer Eric Wynn.

Brian Duffy Jr. has been knocking at the door of an amateur national championship for several years. He finally took the crown this year on his fifth attempt. Sal Farrugga had a few words with him.

Lisa Norden follows Olympic silver with her second straight $151,500-plus Hy-Vee gold as the Swedish champion tops runner-up Sarah Haskins by 51 seconds in the richest race in the sport.

Like his fellow Olympic silver medalist Lisa Norden in the women’s race, Javier Gomez took control of the Hy-Vee Elite Cup men’s race with a run that brought him a 38 seconds margin over runner-up Hunter Kemper.

Joerie Vansteelant of Belgium won his third Powerman Zofingen title, one more than his late brother Benny: Eva Nyström of Sweden narrowly missed Karin Thürig’s 2002 course record at the ITU long course du Worlds

Andreas Raelert topped fellow German Timo Bracht by 4:02 and Gina Crawford of New Zealand edged Mary Beth Ellis of the United States by 1:04 to win the Challenge Walchsee-Kaiserwinkl half distance.

Toumy Degham of France topped Stanislav Krylov of Russia by 1:30 and Delphine Pelletier of France beat two-time defending champion Caroline Steffen of Switzerland by 3:26 to win Triathlon Gerardmer XL

We review an all-new lineup of wheels, tires, and tire sealant from Bontrager. We’re impressed by their remarkably simple design and reasonably priced options… and the possibility for some exciting future development.

Today was the last industry day of the 2012 Eurobike show and we had to get done with our work, because tomorrow the halls will be filled with thousands of consumers.

Cube is quite a popular brand in Germany and they just launched the 2013 Aerium SHPC triathlon bike. The SLT featured here is the creme of the crop.

We spent another day cruising through the Eurobike halls to see what is new, exciting, different or just happened to catch our attention.

Allen Lim takes us through the process of making real food for training and racing. His assignment? Make food for an entire cycling stage race in Colorado. Enjoy this inside look at the process.

A few days ago we noticed the BMC timemachine TMR01 at Eurobike’s Demo Day and today we looked closer at this stunning aero road bike.

Bree Wee made a big splash at the 2007 Ironman World Championship breaking Kate Major’s overall age group record and finished 13th overall in a time of 9:47:40. Five years later, the popular Kona mom made a dream come true at IM Louisville.

Join us in watching three amazing stories as regular people take on the the 2012 LifeTime Fitness Chicago Triathlon.

Today the 2012 Eurobike show opened its 13 major halls and several appendixes to a flood of trade visitors and media and it was on like Donkey Kong.