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Beginners: Week 21

This is your final week. Your race is upcoming, you're in the "taper" and the training is mostly done. Let's talk a little bit about where you go from here, shall we?

Elite Bicycles Singapore

So you think only the big boys can have a concept store? Not so. Elite Bicycles, that scrappy Philly bike maker, opens Elite Bicycles Singapore.

Ironman is wetsuit legal

Ironman announced and retracted a set of swim apparel rule changes over a 24 hour period, reminiscent of a compression sock incident during 2009.

Where do triathletes live?

Where do you think most American triathletes live? In which states? Cities? Metro areas? If your best guesses are based on what you thought a decade, or even five years, ago, you'll be surprised.

Tempted by Tri?

The Slowtwitch publisher was asked to write the feature article in the 2009 Interbike Show Guide. Interbike, the bike industry's premier trade show, allowed us to reprint the feature here.

Ridley Dean

The Dean is a tri bike, made by a Belgian company, that inhabits a niche all it's own - or, almost its own. Wonder what that niche is? Click and read.

Tech footwear demystifier

We write about running footwear here a lot. It seemed appropriate to tell you how to read and interpret these articles. What is a "pronator?" What is a "last?" What is an "outsole," and a "medial post?"

Beginners: Week 20

The hard part is the training, and you've done that. The easy part is sometimes the part athletes forget to do: Where is the race? How do you get there? Is your equipment in good working order?

John Duke lands at Ironman

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?

Year of the Contact Point

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.

Adjust your Exit bike

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.

Trek Equinox TTX 9.5 (2010)

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.