A very strong field lined up for the 2011 Rev3 Knoxville triathlon and Matty Reed and Leanda Cave took the titles. Enjoy this race day gallery.

After he won the the Leadman Life Time Epic 250 he said it was the “toughest” race of his career. Afterwards, he had a few fine-tuned distinctions to make about the experience.

Conrad Stoltz takes his second straight XTERRA U.S. Pro Series win; Lesley Paterson wins her first at the XTERRA Pacific Championship at Santa Cruz, California

Matt Reed passed Cameron Dye in the last mile to win by 9 seconds and defend his Rev3 Knoxville title. Leanda Cave held off defending champ and fellow Brit Julie Dibens by 1:09.

Andy Potts’s race-best swim and bike provide his margin of victory over Maxim Kriat; Caitlin Snow’s race-best run gives her a 6:05 margin over Nina Kraft at Florida 70.3.

The 2011 Rev3 Triathlon in Knoxville is almost upon us and we spent a day filled with sunshine and a few showers checking out the venue.

In boiling heat and wicked winds that overcame many, Jordan Rapp won the men;s title at Leadman Lifetime Epic 250; Angela Naeth of Canada was the women’s champion.

Andreas Raelert came back on the run to win the inaugural Thomas Cook Ironman 70.3 Mallorca by just over 3 minutes. Emma-Kate Lidbury held off Erika Csomor and Silvia Felt for the women’s title.

The 28-year-old South African had a breakthrough year in 2010 with wins at Rev3 Cedar Point, Ironman Florida, Alpe d’Huez – and narrowly escaped getting chicked in his 6th place finish at Challenge Roth.

Balázs Csőke is a young Hungarian Pro who is currently getting ready for the Memorial Hermann Ironman Texas. He is already in Texas and had a few words with slowtwitch about his goals and plans in general.

This week we look closer at the Lazer Helium helmet, the Bex Runner core cooling device, the book Not Dead Yet and a sunscreen from Soléo.

Let’s wrap up the past week’s look at age-group drug testing. Maybe we can see a way forward and, perhaps, prevail upon those charged with keeping our sport clean to consider some ideas not currently on their radar.

Sebastian Kienle showed that he isn’t just a strong cyclist with his win at the 25th edition of the Buschhuetten Triathlon and Brit Jodie Stimpson bested all the Germans to take the women’s title.

Sarah Haskins broke away on the bike and held on during the run to take the win at the ITU World Cup in Monterrey, Mexico. Ai Ueda takes second place and Anne Haug 3rd.

Aussie Brendan Sexton stormed to the win at the 2011 Monterrey ITU World Cup and held of French Pro Frederic Belaubre and American Hunter Kemper. After a runner-up spot in Mooloolaba, Sexton now stepped up to the very top spot.

In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray covers using multiple ANT+ devices at the same time, how to connect a magnet to a HED3 wheel and Forerunner screen protectors.

Mathias Hecht won his first ever Ironman by 1:43 over Maik Twelsiek of Germany; Heather Wurtele of Canada repeats as early leader Jodie Swallow of Great Britain DNFs with foot injury.

Tim Berkel took the win at 70.3 Busselton just 6 days after finishing second to Joe Gambles at 70.3 Port Macquarie. Jo Lawn had won the women’s race in Port Macquarie and added another fine win to her impressive resume.

The bike segment at Wildflower is quite tough and slowtwitch shooter Timothy Carlson captured images of the Pros out on course.

Imagine a famous athlete accused of drugs: Howard Jacobs was probably that athlete’s lawyer. We’ve heard from USADA’s CEO, and WTC’s anti-doping director. Here’s a look from a different vantage point.

Jesse Thomas surprised quite a few folks with his recent win at the 2011 Avia Wildflower triathlon and to some degree he also surprised himself. Slowtwitch had a few words with the fast running triathlete.

Imagine the surprise when the general mailbox of a brand contains an email from the UCI with the note that one of their products is illegal. That happened to Bont Cycling and we had a few words with their CEO Steven Nemeth.

What’s the drug testing at Ironman all about? We interviewed the director of its anti-doping program, Kate Mittelstadt.

2007 ITU World Champion Daniel Unger just concluded his training camp in Cervia, Italy and is now ready for the World Cup race in Mexico.