Maxim Kriat beat Paul Ambrose by 7 seconds in a fierce duel to defend his title at the Ironman 70.3 Mooseman. Lesley Paterson’s bike speed edged Caitlin Snow’s run for the women’s title.

Andy Potts’ race-best swim and bike held off Bevan Docherty’s sizzling race-best run; Nicky Samuels’ killer bike and run topped Leanda Cave by 4:21 at Escape From Alcatraz

Andreas Raelert ran down Sebastian Kienle late in the race to win the Challenge Kraichgau. Yvonne Van Vlerken battled Rachel Joyce but at the end had to hold off Julia Wagner to take the women’s title.

Paula Findlay grabbed her second title of the 2011 Dextro Energy World Championship Series with a superb win in Madrid, Spain. Helen Jenkins finished second and Emmie Charayron rounded out the podium

Andreas Böcherer beat local favorites Ronnie Schildknecht and Mathias Hecht at 70.3 Switzerland by a good margin. Caroline Steffen defended her title and also took a reasonably comfortable win.

Ironman World Champion Chris McCormack and fellow Australian Rebekah Keat topped small but talented fields at the inaugural Challenge Cairns

Luke Bell’s race-best 1:18:58 run overcomes Chris Lieto’s race-best 2:07:56 bike; Kona pro Bree Wee tops age grouper Sheila Croft by 37 seconds at Honu 70.3

Alistair Brownlee took a superb win at the Dextro Energy WCS race in Madrid and his younger brother Jonathan grabbed second place after a successful break on the bike. Javier Gomez finished third.

Linsey Corbin with help from her sponsors donated a replica of her custom painted SCOTT Plasma 3 with SRAM, Zipp and Vision components for an auction in NYC to benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

Jimmy Riccitello, who heads up WTC’s officials program, and Charlie Crawford, longtime head of officiating at USA Triathlon, spoke to Slowtwitch about this past weekend’s rules questions.

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.

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.