Meb Keflezighi (2:09:08) and Shalane Flanagan (2:25:38) won and triathletes Tyler Stewart (2:44) and Joanna Zeiger (DNF) also ran in the US Olympic Marathon Trials

In this issue we have noticed the Saucony Amp PRO2 recovery suit, Panache G.S. Panache jersey, EvenOdd Creative messenger bag, Matuse Premium Tuna t-shirt and the Ai Weiwei Forever Bicycles exhibit.

Edward Dudlik III is another athlete who just recently fell hard for the sport of triathlon. Currently in law school in Washington, DC, this Willow Grove, PA resident is this week’s random age grouper.

With the Cervelo P5 launch only a few days away we noticed a strange new sponsor on the Garmin Barracuda team kit. Will that mean that the new P5 will feature a hydraulic brake from Magura?

Aussie Nikki Butterfield won 70.3 Syracuse and also added a 4th place at the HyVee 5i50 Championships to her resume in 2011. The recent mom, whose husband Tyler also races, shared with slowtwitch how she juggles it all.

Last weekend Jeremy Powers and Katie Compton stormed to the 2011 USA Cycling Cyclocross Championship titles and Ali Engin took some amazing photos of the event.

It’s an integrated aerobar system with pursuits 30cm apart on center, rather than the typical 40cm or 42cm. This bar is crazy narrow. The importance of the Brezza Nano is less what it is than the paradigm it represents.

Mathias Hecht will be starting in new colors in 2012. The very friendly and fast Swiss Pro had been on Team Commerzbank until it ended in 2011, and will now be racing for Team TBB moving forward.

Cameron Brown prevailed in a tough duel with Callum Millward to win his 9th crown and Joanna Lawn handily won her 4th Port of Tauranga Half Ironman title Saturday in New Zealand

Kate Coleman from Denver, Colorado is our random age grouper this week. The lawyer and mother of 5 has quite a story to tell in terms of what got her inspired to train harder and run longer.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed the appeal by British triathlete Harry Wiltshire to overturn his 6-month suspension for unsportsmanlike conduct

Upcoming Aussie Pro Tim Reed took the win at Canberra 70.3 and had a very solid 2011 season. He talked to slowtwitch about racing, the love of his life, why he isn’t racing ITU and elaborated on being a budgie smuggler.

Timothy Carlson’s favorite snaps of triathlon’s headliners and wonderful supporting cast. Some were set up with lights, others were glances of unguarded moments.

The Running Event awards the top running specialty stores in the USA with 50 Best distinctions and we were at the adjacent expo to grab a few images.

Sorry if the name is confusing, but this feature is about our favorite images submitted by our readers in 2011 to our wenoticed.slowtwitch.com sub site.

I got the GC Aero as a bare frame, building it up with a mix of parts that I wanted to test. This bike shares something very appealing in common with certain other bikes that I particularly like.

Houston, Texas resident Sean Schnur closed out his 2011 season at Ironman Arizona with another Kona ticket. Considering his recent bad taste non racing experience there we would have understood if he had passed on that slot.

Chrissie Wellington and Mirinda Carfrae raised the bar for the women’s Ironman marathon and many men also ran like the wind. Timothy Carlson’s favorite run shots.

From Maui to Copenhagen, Boise to London, San Luis Obispo to Tempe, triathletes cycled with fierce abandon. Here is a selection of some of Timothy Carlson’s best shots.

Split nose saddles: I separate these into two categories, those that appear like standard saddles, creating a fjord out of what in other saddles is a lake; versus wide split-nosed saddles like the ISM.

After perusing all of this year’s What We have Noticed features, our editor selected his favorite ten items of 2011. It was not an easy decision to make, but someone had to do it.

From Oceanside to Copenhagen, London to Maui, Pacific Grove to Kona, the best shots of triathlon swimmers in 2011 by Timothy Carlson.

Are there differences between how you sit, and what you do, aboard a saddle on a road bike versus a tri bike? Yes. Two differences, and they’re big. What makes this possible? Handlebar design.

Arild Tveiten is a fast age grouper from Norway who has been doing this triathlon stuff for quite some time. But like the interviewer, this Norseman bound athlete just recently became father of twins. A random coincidence indeed.