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Industry

In between bike sizes?

 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.
Triathlon

Slice 5

 It's Chrissie's bike, and Mirinda's, and it can be yours too for a paltry sum, as bikes go. Among those selling complete all-carbon tri bikes, Cannondale joins Felt and QR in the circa-$2000 club.
Training

Beginners: Week 19

 Performance increases are not straight-line, rather, they're like the stock market: lots of ups, a fair share of downs, but up over the long haul Well, maybe that's a bad analogy considering the past decade.
Training

Beginners: Week 18

 You're nearing the end. You're probably ready to race now. So, it's mostly a case of hitting your taper, not getting injured, improving here and there, and staying enthused.
Triathlon

Felt B16 for 2010

 I'm always drawn to that place in a company's lineup where the company's bean counters wince as they look at how much money they're not making. Here's the bean-counter's nightmare.
Triathlon

Quintana Roo Seduza

 This 2010 Seduza is a singular example of this American company with a Mexican name's resurgence. It's a full-carbon monocoque chassis with all the sex features.
Training

Beginners: Week 17

 Your long swim week under your best (you did do this, didn't you?), how 'bout let's try switching to another event, and we'll try to make some progress on the bike?
Industry

Aid stations

 Aid stations can be cost centers, profit centers, or neutral centers. No matter of the size of your race, they can be done well, and cheaply. I like to think of them as stationary parade floats.
Industry

Traffic plan

 Want to be a race director? Here's the skill of it: mapping out your traffic plan. Regrettably, even the casual racer discerns when an RD gave his traffic plan short shrift.
News

Careers in triathlon

 As an intellectual exercise I asked myself who, over the course of their lives, have made the most money in, or from, the sport of triathlon. It's not who you probably think.
Training

Beginners: Week 16

 Swimming is a big fat hassle, until you're good in the pool, and then swimming is the easiest leg of the triathlon, and when I say easy, I mean by far it's the easiest.
Industry

Blame China if your rack wobbles

 Have you ever considered where bike racks come from? I hadn't, until I decided to run a triathlon. Now I suddenly need a million of them, and sadly they don't show up in the Sears catalog.