Luke Bell topped fellow Aussie (and fellow Luke) McKenzie by 2:44 at the 2010 Ironman 70.3 Cancun. In the women’s race Dr. Amanda Stevens edged Michellie Jones by 1:17 on a very hot day.

Cameron Brown wins a Hawaii tune-up by 6:36 over Sweden’s Fredrik Croneborg; Michelle Wu tops fellow Aussie Rachael Paxton by 2 minutes at Ironman 70.3 Centrair Tokoname Japan

Paul Matthews used a scalding hot 2:08:35 bike split to provide all of his 8:12 winning margin over Maxim Kriat while Samantha McGlone topped Rachel Challis on the run to win Syracuse 70.3

This bike is further evidence that the most hotly contested price category in tri bike land is the $3300 to $3700 range. The big boys—Trek, Cervelo, Felt, Cannondale, Scott—have gone all-in here. How does the Transition Comp fair?

A week after becoming the ITU World Champion in Budapest, Hungary, Javier Gomez grabbed the French Grand Prix win in La Baule. Jodie Swallow got away on the bike and held off Andrea Hewitt and Emma Moffatt for the win.

This is the final part of the “Its not so easy” chapter from the “17 Hours to Glory” book. We had selected this specific chapter as a lead up to the 2010 Ford Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Enjoy part 3 of Paula Newby-Fraser’s story in the “17 Hours to Glory” book. Here we find out why the chapter is called “It’s not so easy” and get further proof that she was one of the most amazing Ironman athletes.

This week we noticed a soothing creme from Sixtus, cleaning product from Grease Monkey Wipes, a Pro baby with an early start and another Pro giving back.

“Life moves pretty fast,” noted Ferris Bueller. ” If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” You could miss the new swim skins legally usable in Kona, Cancun, Cozumel, and elsewhere.

In part 2 of Paula Newby-Fraser’s amazing Ironman career “It’s not so easy” chapter of Timothy Carlson’s story in the “17 Hours to Glory” book we learn about her relationship with Erin Baker and much more.

The second installment of our new weekly Q&A column focusing on personal sports electronics with Ray Maker of DCRainmaker.com covers a question about the Vector from Metrigear and various other items.

We spent a day with German rising talent Sebastian Kienle while he was in the Freiburg area for a training block with his coach.

Baseball has Fenway Park. Auto racing has Monaco. Triathlon’s similar jewel is the Triathlon at Pacific Grove. Photo gallery by Timothy Carlson.

Over the next 4 days we’ll publish 1 of the 17 chapters of “17 hours to Glory.” “It’s not so easy” is chronicling Paula Newby-Fraser’s amazing Ironman career and was written by Timothy Carlson, and today you get to enjoy part 1 of that chapter.

Bahram Akradi pioneered a revolution in big prize money triathlon which rewarded Olympic distance triathletes with big league dough. Now he, Toyota and partners fight a down economy to keep the series self sustaining success

Trek has finally come out to play in the sport of triathlon. They engage in every price range with a bike that’s imaginative and well conceived. The Speed Concept 7.5 is a strong entry in the mid-$3000 category.

The Plasma 2 frame was unobtainable during 2010 for a price below $5000. For 2011, this high quality frameset can be had in a bike selling complete, with a very nice gruppo, for $3300. Today we take a look at that bike.

The industry has chosen pitched battle at a price range between $3300 and $3700. The Slice 3 sits right in the middle, and it holds its own admirably. Plasmas, Transitions, Speed Concepts, this is your worthy competitor.

The Aussie Emmas ruled the day in Budapest, with Emma Snowsill taking the Grand Final win and Emma Moffat the World Championship title.

Emma Snowsill came back from injury to win the Dextro Energy-ITU Grand Final , Emma Moffatt took second in the Grand Final in Budapest, but won her second World Championship Series title.

The Rev3Tri season finale, a full ultra distance race, was won by South African James Cunnama and America’s Amy Marsh. The season series championships were taken by David Thompson and Sam Warriner

Aussie Joe Gambles had a nice Ironman debut with a win at the 2010 Ford Ironman Wisconsin, but he had to chase down a few folks to get it done. Kiwi Gina Crawford broke her own course record from 2007 and won the women’s race with a superb performance.

In this gallery from the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary we mostly have U23 athletes, but a few age groupers made it too.

Alistair Brownlee won the final of the 2010 WCS in Budapest, but Javier Gomez became the World Champion.