South Africa’s Raynard Tissink ran past Switzerland’s Mathias Hecht for another home country Ironman victory; Sonia Tajsich of Germany overcame Caroline Steffen’s lead with race-best bike and run.
by Tim Carlson, April 25, 2010Terenzo Bozzone took down Chris Lieto’s lead at mile 11 and held off Timothy O’Donnell’s charge by 29 seconds to win the Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas. Samantha McGlone took the women’s title.
Cameron Dye beat out a stellar field to take the win at the 2010 St. Anthony’s Triathlon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Sarah Haskins led from start to finish and grabbed the women’s title.
Valentin Meshcheryakov of Russia outsprinted Japan’s Yuichi Hosoda to win the Ishigaki ITU World Cup and earn his first podium finish. Early leader Clayton Fettell from Australia fell to 5th on the run.
Three-time Olympian Kiyomi Niwata of Japan outran Liz Blatchford of Great Britain to take an 11-second margin of victory at the Ishigaki ITU World Cup. Japan’s Tomoko Sakimoto rounded out the podium.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again seems to be the motto of Collegiate National Champion Chris Stehula. The tall Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo student actually has been attempting for quite a while to take this title.
This Plasma is the longest in the tooth of the three Plasma framesets. It’s still got plenty of life and relevance. Even so, it would benefit from a couple of design and spec upgrades.
Is this bike the last of an era? The bike aboard which Levi, Lance and Alberto won so many grand tour TTs prepares, perhaps, to slide off into history. The Equinox TTX 9.0 is part of that lineage.
The 22-year-old scored an impressive upset at the ITU World Championship Series opener in Sydney, taking down the 1-2-3 ranked women in the world. Meet the most impressive Chilean triathlete since Cristian Bustos.
209 athletes who planned to race Ironman South Africa on Sunday April 25th, are feeling the effects of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano and won’t be able to get to the start line of the event, but all is not lost and an alternative is offered.
After 20 years of ambivalence toward tri bikes and the tri market, Specialized has finally made a world class timed race bike. The Transition is, with some exceptions, a bike worthy of its headbadge.
Laurel Wassner is currently getting ready for the 2010 St. Anthony’s Triathlon and is hoping to be in the mix despite what appears to be a very tough field. But after battling Hodgkin’s Disease, other challenges seem less daunting.
Despite very hot conditions, Andy Potts led from start to finish as he won the 2010 Ochsner Ironman 70.3 New Orleans in a time of 3:43:44. Sam Warriner captured the women’s title in a time of 4:16:44.
Portugal’s Joao Silva grabbed the 2010 ITU Monterrey World Cup in Monterrey, Mexico. Paula Findlay of Canada won the women’s race with a dominating performance and thus earned her first Word Cup title.
Chris Stehula, age 26, a professional triathlete racing for Cal Poly SLO, and Nicole Kelleher, 28, a medical student in emergency medicine at the University of Virginia, were the upset winners at the shivering cold Collegiate Nationals in Lubbock
CU Boulder dominated the USAT Collegiate Nationals team competition with wins in the men’s and coed teams category and placed a close second to the West Point women’s team
With the Sea Otter Classic in full flight we have noticed the Mission Skincare Anti Sting sunscreen, the Bontrager R4 Aero tire, the Rocket Science 20BPM suit, the Ernest Lube and the TwinSix Cat 6 t-shirt.
Stuart Hayes grabbed the runner-up spot at the 2010 ITU Mooloolaba Triathlon and is currently focused on gaining a spot on the British team for the 2012 Olympic Games. He had a few words with us.
Thinkers and Tinkers heads to Tucson, AZ (by way of Des Moines, IA) for a visit with TJ Tollakson, the founder of Ruster Sports. An engineer by training, TJ wasn’t content to turn off his brain when he made the commitment to leaving job with ALCOA behind to focus on instead on winning races as a professional triathlete.
Timothy Carlson’s thoughts about the USAT Collegiate Nationals – CU’s Jessica Broderick over West Point’s Ashley Morgan and CU’s Cedric Wane over UC Berkeley’s Kenneth Rakestraw at Lubbock, Texas.
Over the past decade Cervelo simplified cable routing, added a chain stay adjustment screw, then came the move to carbon. Since then it’s been pretty clear sailing.
The Felt B12 is a worthy competitor to C’dale’s Slice 4 and Cervelo’s category killing P2, as well as the entry level Equinox TTX and Specialized Transition. But the closest rivel to the B12 isn’t Cervelo, it’s Felt’s own B14.
Cervelo’s juggernaut P2 moved out of the $2500 neighborhood, selling this year for $280. Felt’s B14 nicely slotted into the P2’s hand-me-down $2500 category; it’s a great value for the money.
The Commerzbank Triathlon Team just wrapped up their camp in Mallorca and Swiss Pro Mathias Hecht chatted with slowtwitch about this annual gathering for training, team building and public relation items.
After some recent heated discussions about what appeared to be a new coach in Matty Reed’s life, the Boulder, CO resident cleared the air about that topic. He also talked about other current activities.
