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.
by Tim Carlson, May 14, 2011Andreas 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.
We recently visited Rafael Hoffleit in Germany to look closer at his bikes and understand a bit more about this designer whose bikes are hand crafted in Germany.
Joe Maloy, the 2009 USAT Age Group Champion, is quickly making his name known in triathlon circles. He already has three top 10 finishes this year on the Continental Cup circuit and is quickly ascending the ITU Points List.
Travis Tygart is America’s top cop in the fight against performance enhancing drugs. He’s USADA’s CEO, formerly its general counsel. I asked him questions about its drug testing program for age-group triathletes.
This is the latest on the topic of policies, practices and WADA list updates for 2011.
Dark horse Jesse Thomas shocked the field and Leanda Cave finished 5 seconds off Julie Dibens’ course record. Photo Gallery by Timothy Carlson
Jordan Rapp built up his Specialized Shiv just before the 2011 Avia Wildlower Triathlon and we had a closer look at his setup. As a bonus, Jordan also did a video walk-through.
Filip Ospaly is moving up – 3rd at Toyota Cup Miami to 1st here at St. Anthony’s – and Matt Reed seems to have finally raced himself back into shape. Meanwhile Sarah Haskins continues to cruise to wins.
