Perhaps (I thought as I ran) it would be good to write about the technical side of running.

I got a letter yesterday from Clifton May, a Slowtwitch reader. He listed three problems, all of which seem to be common to new triathletes.

One would be hard-pressed to come up with an industry, activity or economy in which one single trademark is more powerful or over-arching than in triathlon, and the trade name is Ironman.

Every once in awhile there will be a good running coach who will have some success. This will seem like the way to do things, until the next System is discovered.

While most of the articles featured in Swim Center are penned by extremely accomplished swimmers, it’s almost counterproductive to have a swimmer like that write about tactics. How would they know? They don’t need tactics. They have talent.

Races are hard to produce. The bigger the race, the bigger the headache; the greater the expense; the more hand-wringing the stress; the more sleep-depriving the risk.

Yet again (as happens about every 18-months) someone asks about the beginnings of the bike technology that has make our sport unique. I thought I’d answer the question here, and with some photo representation.

If I had to choose, I’d say becoming a member of a masters swim team is even more important than being part of a tri club.

On the same day the men’s Olympic triathlon was contested a group of fifteen or so cyclists started up San Diego’s Palomar Mountain.

Over 16 years ago, Dan Empfield interviewed then-Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico. With Johnson once again in the political spotlight, we decided to reprint that interview.

New triathletes—or triathletes new to the ocean—are quite often scared to death of negotiating waves during an open-ocean swim. Wouldn’t you like to be able to go through the waves without giving them a second thought?

The issue of proper wetsuit care — notwithstanding the fluidic medium in which a wetsuit is used– is rather concrete, and not subject to the changing tides of theory.

How on earth do you put this wetsuit on and take it off?!

When you’ve got no feed in the stable you can’t ride your horse to town.

Give Scott Tinley the task of beating up on a gaggle of pro triathletes on the race course and he’s more than capable. Ask him to organize those same professionals into a union that will represent their best interests and you might as well ask him to raise the dead.

The amount of 19-norandrosterone present in Smith’s urine, reportedly calculated by UCLA’s drug lab at an estimated 11 nanograms per milliliter, is above, according to most involved in the drug testing milieu, any amount which might naturally occur in one’s system.