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Articles by Herbert Krabel

The first love of Lukas Verzbicas

An inspired Lukas Vercbicas stormed to the win at the 2011 Junior ITU World Championships before shipping off to Oregon to run track for said University. Now Verzbicas has announced that he is returning to his first love - triathlon.

What We Have Noticed: Brooks, GU, Trix …

After a small hiatus we are back with a new issue of What We Have Noticed. This week we look at the Brooks Pure Connect, GU Mint Chocolate gel, Trix baby bibs and hat set, the No Drop Zone book and our sub site We Noticed.

Schildknecht, Jacobs take IM Florida

Ronnie Schildknecht added another Ironman title to his resume with a convincing win in Panama City Beach in 7:59:42. Jessica Jacobs went sub-9 and repeated as the champion.

Random AG Nick Warren

Nick Warren is another age grouper we recently met in a random manner. Like many others, he is very focused on family and job and works out when he finds time - but his day job is quite unique.

Kona 2011 – Top 15 women on the bike

We present the top 15 female Ironman World Championship finishers on the bike and look closer at their gear. Fastest bike split this year belonged again to Karin Thuerig who cranked out a course record 4:44:20.

Colucci, Haskins take PanAm Gold

Reinaldo Colucci broke away late in the run to take the Gold for Brazil at the 2011 PanAm Games triathlon. American Sarah Haskins took charge during the swim and bike and earned the women's title.

Raelert, Meyers in Austin

Michael Raelert stormed to the title at Ironman 70.3 Austin with a 1:11:05 run and recorded a 3:47:48 winning time. Jessica Meyers took the win in the women's race in 4:29:15.

The creative Cody Westheimer

Cody Westheimer is an age grouper who got to the Ironman World Championships with a lottery slot and his video diary of his day in Kona touched many of us. We had a few words with this very creative man.

We Noticed

We have added a new sub website to slowtwitch called We Noticed and there you are actually able to directly contribute images and videos. Have a look.

Kona 2011 – Top 15 men on the run

We again present the top male 15 athletes overall finishers during the run and talk about their running shoes. Fastest runner again was Aussie Pete Jacobs who managed a marathon time of 2:42:29 and finished in 2nd place.

Random AG Bob Schloegel

We are starting a new interview series on slowtwitch where we chat with random age groupers and Bob Schloegel from Kansas City is our very first guest along those lines. Bob races in M45-49 and actually happens to be quite fast.