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Top-tier pros show their mettle with impressive wins at Ironman 70.3 St. George

With all the hype this year around the dueling pro triathlon series, fans have been blessed with a series of races featuring some of the sport’s biggest names. Both the PTO’s T100 series and the...

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Taylor Knibb to race T100 San Francisco seven weeks out from Olympics

While some might think focusing on a long-distance race less than two months out from one of the biggest draft-legal races in your career might not make a lot of sense, Taylor Knibb’s signing up for...

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Where did the koala cross the road? Ironman Australia, of course

Leave it to the koala to try and steal the show! With a new course record and a rookie win highlighting the pro races, a local koala bear managed to garner lots of attention at this weekend’s Ironman...

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Zwift is launching all kinds of updates for summer 2024

Gone are the days where Zwift was simply our saving grace for riding through the winter months. Past the point of being a winter sport, more and more people are using Zwift daily as a core element of...

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New World #1 Sam Long leads the men into T100 San Francisco

He’s either finished first (Ironman 70.3 Pucon and St. George) or second (T100 Miami, 70.3 Oceanside, T100 Singapore) at every race he’s done this year, so it’s hardly a surprise that American Sam Long...

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Olympics on the line in Yokohama this weekend

The World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) finally gets rolling this weekend in Yokohama, Japan, after the cancellation of the season opener in Abu Dhabi. With Olympic qualifying concluding at the...

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PTO athletes to be added to World Triathlon testing pool

After recent revelations that many of the athletes competing on the T100 events were not part of any random drug testing programs, World Triathlon and the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO)...

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There’s another new aero helmet and, yes, it’s weird

They are calling it “helmetgate” in the cycling world, but for us triathletes its just another potential time-saving piece of equipment we’re looking forward to seeing in transition soon. WHAT ARE...

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Is heart rate or power the best way to improve your bike performance?

Those of us who have been endurance junkies long enough can remember the first clunky heart rate monitors – big strap on devices that you could set ranges for to monitor your training. Around that same...

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New Olympic medal contenders surge into the picture with big wins in Yokohama

France’s Leonie Periault and America Morgan Pearson have put themselves into the Olympic triathlon medal picture thanks to huge wins at WTCS Yokohama. While Pearson was coming off an impressive 2023...

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Ironman Pro Series arrives in Europe with a bang – sprint finishes and (for...

Just 15 seconds separated two of the best runners in triathlon at Ironman 70.3 Alcudia-Mallorca as Great Britain’s Emma Pallant-Browne ran down one of the best runners in the sport – Germany’s Laura...

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Tamara Jewett wins one of Canada’s biggest 10K races

On Mother’s Day, 20,000 eager runners took to Toronto’s Yonge Street for the annual Sporting Life 10K. This year’s race saw the highest number of female participants in race history, with more than...

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3 snappy run interval sessions for unstoppable stamina

Becoming a strong runner means occasionally suffering through some discomfort, whether it’s during a long training run or a harder-than-anticipated race day. We all know how tough it can be to get your...

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Making the call – how the results from Yokohama will frame the American...

When it comes to making it to the Olympics as a women, it’s best not to be born in the United States or Great Britain. Both countries are jam-packed with talent, with a number of women capable of...

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Former Ironman world champion crashes into a car in first gravel race

It’s not exactly the way he envisioned his first gravel bike race to go, but the good news is that 2014 Ironman world champion Sebastian Kienle (pictured above at his last race in Kona in 2022) is OK...

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Triathlon star shocks cycling world with big win at US National Time Trial...

Taylor Knibb (pictured above at last year’s Ironman World Championship) won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the triathlon mixed relay, then earned her spot to the Paris Games last summer at the...

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Get your head in the game – make every day a good training day

One of the most frequent comments I hear from the triathletes I work with is: “I had a lousy day of training.” This statement is almost always accompanied by a variety of emotions that are neither...

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Normal limits do not apply. Welcome to the toughest Ironman in the world

“At least they didn’t say it was a ‘light breeze,'” my wife joked as we finished our ride. Our 41 km effort had taken about 20 minutes longer than it should have in the strong winds that we’ve...

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Canada’s first gravel tri – the Honeymoon Half

With the popularity of gravel riding growing by the day, it was only a matter of time before an innovative race organization would put together a gravel triathlon, right? Welcome to the Honeymoon Half...

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Ironman Lake Placid appears on track for three year extension and we get...

This year will be the 25th anniversary of Ironman Lake Placid. It was the first race that really started the Ironman expansion in North America – believe it or not, before the first race in the...

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