The common wisdom is that wheel mass, since it is rotating, counts "doubly bad" as compared to non-rotating mass. There’s a grain of truth to this common wisdom, but it doesn’t tell the entire story.
by Tom Anhalt, May 31, 2011
AS AEG’s Andrew Messick moves across to WTC, what is Providence Equity Partners’ strategy, and what does this mean for Ben Fertic? Here’s what Slowtwitch thinks of the recent hire.
Before finding the passion and speed in the triathlon world AJ Baucco was a drummer for a punk rock band. More recently he was the fastest amateur at 70.3 Florida and he had a few words with slowtwitch.
2003 Ironman World Championship runner-up Rutger Beke called a news conference today in his native Belgium and announced his retirement effective immediately.
The Amgen Tour of California was the dreamchild of Andrew Messick, who ran massive AEG’s sports division. He’ll try to leverage that success as Ironman’s new CEO
The 2011 CapTex Triathlon in Austin offered great performances, a mix up that scrambled the men’s swim, and a dismal dunking of yours truly. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson.
This week we again look at rules we’ve tried to parse before: What’s unauthorized assistance exactly; and what happens when an official’s commands collide with our own best sense?
In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray discusses using a Garmin Edge 500 with a PowerTap, using the Garmin FR310XT during the swim, and some heart-rate training resources.
Andy Potts is steered off-course twice, believing the course marshal only once and that, plus a strong race, netted him an easy win at Captex. Sarah Haskins wins as well in the popular, 3000-person downtown tri.
Argentina’s Eduardo Sturla took the win at the Ironman Brazil Florianopolis for the fourth time. Amy Marsh grabbed the win in the women’s race and that is her fourth Ironman title.
Sylvain Sudrie defended his title at the 2011 Half Challenge Barcelona-Maresme in fairly hot conditions and with strong performances in all disciplines. Eva Ledesma took the women’s title with a fine closing run.
The 7-time ITU World Championship medalist from Scotland just won 70.3s at Galveston and St Croix and took her second Ironman win at Texas. Now the fleet-footed 34-year-old is aiming at breaking her jinx at Kona.
Enhanced race results returns for 2011 with the inaugural Ironman Texas. Craig Harris once again fires up his Excel-fu to slice and dice the results.
Jared Woodford is not your typical athlete with an Elite license. When he isn’t racing or training, he is working full time as a commercial pilot. We talked to him about racing Pro, working full time and living his dream.
Sarah Haskins and Rebeccah Wassner lead the women’s field. Cam Dye, Andy Potts, Hunter Kemper, Matty Reed, Filip Ospaly top the men’s contenders at the Cap Tex Triathlon in Austin, Texas.
This week we noticed the Giro Selector TT helmet, a very cool Wouter Weylandt memorial t-shirt, the GU Roctane Chocolate Raspberry, the 2012 Norseman race(s) and an interesting way to protect your bike from rain.
Kris Gemmell overcame storms and tough competition to win the 5150 Memphis in May Triathlon by a minute. Amanda Stevens’ advantage was only a few seconds but that was all she needed to take the women’s crown.
Catriona Morrison broke 9 hours and Eneko Llanos eked out a 90-second win over Iron rookie Tim O’Donnell at Ironman Texas. Photos by Timothy Carlson.
In this week’s installment of our weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics, Ray compares the Garmin GTU to the Spot Tracker, discusses how to create CompuTrainer files from GPS files, and laments the lack of do-it-all HRM strap.
Defending champion Filip Ospaly ran down Michael Weiss to take the 2011 Ironman 70.3 Austria St. Pölten. In the women’s race the podium was reversed from the previous year with Karin Thürig victorious this time.
An angry Andrew Yoder blitzed the bike at the 2011 Columbia Triathlon in course record time and cruised to a comfortable win. Lindsey Jerdonek used a strong run to get away from Jasmine Oeinck to take the women’s title.
Eneko Llanos outdueled Ironman rookie Timothy O’Donnell by 90 seconds and Catriona Morrison ‘s 8:57:51 topped Kelly Williamson by 10 minutes at the inaugural Memorial Hermann Texas Ironman in The Woodlands
Timo Bracht grabbed the win and broke the course record at the Ironman Lanzarote Canarias in a time of 8:30:34. Rachel Joyce led from start to finish to take her first Ironman title.
The Memorial Hermann Ironman is the first full Ironman race in Texas history and its big points and $100,00 purse attracted a stellar field. Photos by Timothy Carlson
Angela Naeth had 6 second place finishes at Ironman 70.3 races last year. After two more 70.3 runners-up and a win at Leadman 250 this year, she wants a win to shed her rep as the Susan Lucci of 70.3s
