Lessons in consistency – 100 runs in 100 days
As triathletes, we strive to be the best we can, but often life gets in the way. We have to change our plans. We have to compromise. Our potential gets buried beneath late nights at the office and even...
View Article4 Reasons we aren’t all duathletes … and why we should be
When our race season vanished last spring, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, multi-sport athletes faced an identity crisis. In Triathlon Magazine Canada, editor Kevin Mackinnon mused “are we triathletes if...
View ArticleOlympic dreams: Lucy Charles-Barclay isn’t ready to let them go
As she pointed out in a recent Youtube video, British Triathlon reached out to long-distance triathlon star Lucy Charles-Barclay last year to see if she had any interest in pursuing shorter-distance...
View ArticleWorld Triathlon Multisport Festival drops all but long-distance triathlon and...
The good news is that at least two of the world championship events that were to be part of the World Triathlon Multisport Championships in Almere-Amsterdam will still happen this year. The bad news is...
View ArticleGarmin adds LTE connnectivity to Forerunner 945
Garmin has added LTE connectivity to its premium triathlon smartwatch, the Forerunner 945, allowing triathletes to stay connected to their friends and family while they’re out on long training runs to...
View ArticleEdmonton cancels age-group worlds – Elite and U23 worlds to take place “as...
World Triathlon just announced that the age-group championship races at the 2021 World Triathlon Championship Finals in Edmonton will not take place this year. The event was scheduled to take place...
View ArticleIronman Canada-Penticton postponed … but is scheduled for 2021
Ironman has announced that its long-awaited return to Penticton, B.C. will (hopefully) still happen in 2021 – it will just be a month later. According to a release sent out by the company today: Based...
View ArticleShowdown at WTCS Leeds as Olympic qualifying hits final frenzy
Tomorrow’s World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) Leeds could end up being one of the biggest races of 2021 as athletes clamour for a final opportunity to earn themselves a chance to race at the...
View ArticleKingma sprints to WTCS Leeds title
Those of us who have followed Lucy Charles-Barclay’s amazing triathlon career were hardly surprised to see the British athlete serve as a monstrous game-changer, even as she made her draft-legal World...
View ArticleAlex Yee takes dramatic win at WTCS Leeds
Heading into today’s World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) Leeds all eyes were on the race between two-time Olympic gold medalist Alistair Brownlee and up-and-coming star Alex Yee. With Great...
View ArticleAlistair Brownlee disqualified at WTCS Leeds – could be his last short-course...
Alistair Brownlee’s run at a third straight Olympic gold medal appears to be over after a tough day at the World Triathlon Championship Series (WTCS) Leeds. The three-time Olympian and two-time...
View ArticleGarneau to kit Team Internationals at Collins Cup
The Professional Traithletes Organisation (PTO) has announced that Garneau will be the official Team Internationals outfitter for this year’s Collins Cup, which is scheduled for Aug. 28 at the...
View ArticleThe Iron Cowboy finishes 100 full-distance races in 100 days
James Lawrence, the Iron Cowboy has done it – a few minutes ago he ran around the track at Timpanogos High School in Orem, Utah, to finish his 100th full-distance effort in 100 straight days, the...
View ArticleLive Update: 2021 Race cancellations and postponements due to the COVID-19...
An update on races affected by the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. Photo: Super League Triathlon News for June 9. 2021 Ironman Canada moves to September As we reported, organizers have postponed...
View ArticleWho will represent Canada at the Olympics?
Most of the athletes in contention to represent Canada at this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan will be racing at the World Triathlon Cup Huatulco this weekend, the final chance for athletes to...
View ArticleSanders offers to pay for Frodeno’s expenses to come and race him at Ironman...
Earlier this week Germany’s three-time Ironman World Champion and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Jan Frodeno asked his fans on Instagram if they had any sporting challenges for him. “Kona is ages away long...
View ArticleC’mon … 100 full-distances in a row isn’t enough! The Iron Cowboy does one more
For a guy who said he was looking forward to a chance to sleep in, James Lawrence has a very different concept of a late morning than the rest of us. The day after the 45-year-old Canadian set a new...
View ArticleKretz keeps Olympic hopes alive with fifth-place finish in Huatulco
In the final women’s Olympic qualifying event for this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, Canadaa’s 2016 Rio competitor Amelie Kretz kept her hopes up for another Olympic appearance with a fifth-place finish at...
View ArticleMislawchuk shows he’s Tokyo ready with big win in Huatulco
The Canadian men’s strategy for Tokyo was tested today and the results were exactly what Triathlon Canada would have been looking for – with a team-mate making sure he got to the second transition in a...
View ArticleCharles-Barclay wins PTO-supported Dorney Lake Triathlon
Lucy Charles-Barclay continued her story-book 2021 race season with an impressive win today at the PTO-supported Dorney Lake Triathlon, holding off another swim specialist in Lucy Hall to take the win....
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