Jessie Donavan is in Kona to race the Ironman World Championships for the first time. The 2013 Ironman South Africa champion though appears to be calm and collected and has her family with her for support.
by Herbert Krabel, October 4, 2013
Czech Pro Radka Vodičková has spent most of the summer in North America and has now quite a few titles to her name. Slowtwitch.com checked in with this nomadic traveling Pro to see what she is up to.
Guy Crawford is about to head to Kona where he will be busy with various promotional activities, including but not limited to the Coffees of Hawaii boat blueseventy representation. We checked in with the man who is known as Captain Awesome.
We finally have another edition of the popular Pros with their dogs feature. So meet now the very diverse collection of Pro pooches from around the world.
In early September of this year TriDubai founder Roy Nasr was killed by an admitted drunk driver and that 24-year old male has now been sentenced to a month in jail. This is unbelievably sad and makes this editor’s blood boil.
In addition to the big race in Kona there are also several must-do other events going on. New this year is a 2.4 mile open water swim on October 5th, but there is plenty more.
Tony Martin won the men’s individual TT World Championship today and we have a nice selection of images from the start to allow us closer inspect the setups.
It had been discussed in our forum about 2 weeks ago and today it became official that a second Ironman event will take place in Brazil, this one in Fortaleza, a beach community in Northeastern Brazil.
In this edition of What We Have Noticed we look at the K-Edge TT mount, the RIDEYe black box, the WD40 foaming bike wash, FlapJacked protein pancakes, Chamois Butt’r, the Oktoberfest and the NFL.
About a month ago Felt launched the new IA bike and they quickly made sure that Mirinda Carfrae had one in her hands. We now look at the bike fit of this new bike.
At the inaugural Rev3 Branson Ben Hoffman and Radka Vodickova came out as the champions. For Hoffman this was his first Rev3 start but his 3rd title in Branson.
Beautiful Ogden, Utah hosted the XTERRA USA event again and Leonardo Chacon and Lesley Paterson were quickest to the finish.
Under the bright lights of Las Vegas Elite men and women battled for a $30,000 purse in the Aussie inspired Super Sprint Tri Grand Prix.