The former publisher of Competitor.com’s print titles is now Ironman’s manager of content. How will Triathlete Magazine’s longtime publisher impact Ironman’s message?
by Slowman, January 29, 201050,000 Euro pro purse for 2009 Challenge Barcelona held up as Felix Walchshofer’s Roth-based Team Challenge takes Evolution Sport to Spanish court to force payment and stop advertising 2010 races.
In a continuation of series on “Thinkers & Tinkers” in the sport, we look at Ironman winner Jasper Blake and the company he helped found – Aspire Sports Supplements, makers of 7Systems vitamins.
Today we noticed a hydration belt from Fuelbelt, goggles from Barracuda, a pump from Lezyne, the Reed / Potts charity challenge, a George Hincapie DVD, the Indoor Rider workout series and a book filled with secrets.
Brad Culp just left Competitor Group’s Triathlete Magazine and will be moving North to take on a new role as the ITU Media Manager. He checked in with slowtwitch to share some thoughts about the past and future.
Pics from the A2 Wind Tunnel in Mooresville, NC where the Kelly Benefit Strategies team spent a few days to get aero.
At Ironman Hawaii, XTERRA Maui and various other events around the globe people quickly notice the dancing, screaming, jumping and entertaining announcer Whit Raymond. He checked in with slowtwitch.
It’s a bit of inside baseball, only for hard core bike fitters and those who follow the process as a hobby. The Exit fit bike – the standard for tri bike fitting pros – undergoes a protocol change.
There should be a practicality to things that trumps even what the designer or seller intended for his product. Filling the gap between products-as-intended and products-as-needed is the tinkerer’s raison d’être.
Reinaldo Colucci beat Daniel Fontana by 1:48 to capture the 2010 Ironman 70.3 Pucon. Amanda Lovato topped two-time winner Heather Gollnick by over 5 minutes to start her 2010 season with a bang.
Longshot Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown comes from way behind to score a huge upset win for the late Edward Kennedy’s US Senate seat. He says he’s also an All-American 50-54 age group triathlete.
Joanna Zeiger, the 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Champion, 2000 Olympian, PhD in genetic epidemiology, and survivor of countless medical setbacks answers a few existential questions posed by Timothy Carlson.
Reviewed is this mid-priced Trek through the prism of a “Have It Your Way” Project One purchase which is, in our view, the best way to buy any Trek at this price or above.
On this fine day we introduce you to a variety of things we noticed recently. Prototype shoes from Bontrager, brake levers from SRAM, a TT saddle from Visiontech, the Handmade Bicycle Show and a cool t-shirt from Endurance Conspiracy.
For fitters and fittees alike, here’s a question you might be asking: What premium does a Retul deliver to the fit process over other measuring devices?
Looking for a new bike, and find you’re in between sizes? Your LBS owner will tell you to choose the smaller size, and he’s been saying that since, well, forever. But it’s the wrong answer, at least nowadays, at least in tri.
Enjoy the second part of the interview with John Duke, the man who brought back Triathlete Magazine from the verge of bankruptcy. The outspoken Duke recently left Competitor Group when his role there was changed.
We recently learned that Matt Dixon of Purple Patch Fitness has been selected to be the new coach of Linsey Corbin and we wanted to find out more about this decision and her process of selecting a coach.
Great Britain’s Fraser Cartmell edges James Cunnama, while South African Rhodes Scholar Mari Rabe breaks course record, tops Sandra Wallenhorst at Buffalo City.
Richard Ussher, former Olympic mogul skier, adventure racer and 2009 Quelle Challenge Roth podium finisher beats Justin Daerr and Gina Crawford outduels Rebekah Keat for third straight Challenge Wanaka win.
For our final cross-country, marathon, XTERRA bike segment we look at sub $2,000 bikes. We present the Scott Spark 50, Giant XTC 29er, Felt Nine Comp, Rocky Mountain Element 30 and Specialized Stumpjumper Comp.
John Duke, publisher of Triathlete Magazine since 1997, resigned last month after he was removed him from control of the Competitor Group magazines. Part 1 of a 2 part interview with the man who nicknamed himself The Devil.
These days we are confronted by all kinds of charges in our life, including having to pay for air at a gas station. But now it seems that some bike shops have stepped up to the plate to also charge for air.
From DC to LA, from Boulder to Kona, from Chicago to Clearwater, the Best Running Images of 2009 in a photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.
