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Chrissie Wellington unplugged

When Chrissie Wellington stormed to her Ironman Hawaii World Championship title last year, many people were asking the question "Chrissie who?" This year she'll be surely on everybody's radar and she checked in with Slowtwitch pre Kona.

Moving on up – Justin Daerr

Justin Daerr finished the 2001 Ironman California in 12:55 and just 2 years later he recorded a 9:20 finish at Ironman Florida. A couple weeks ago he was 5th overall at Ironman Canada in a time of 8:37 and we had a talk with him.

WTC sold to private equity firm

After almost 20 years of ownership by the Gills family, World Triathlon Corporation, owner of the Ironman World Triathlon Championship, has been sold to the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners.

Blackwell Research on the brink

John Cobb's venture capital start-up, Blackwell Research, was a bold venture that's run out of capital. Absent a white knight riding in (in the aero position) Blackwell is destined to cease as a carbon-based life form.