Danish pro triathlete Helle Frederiksen is now on the Trek Factory Racing team and thus races on a Trek Speed Concept with SRAM AXS components. We took a closer look at that ride.
by Herbert Krabel, April 9, 2019
127 teams started the 2019 ÖtillÖ Swimrun Hvar in Croatia but tough conditions forced organizers to change the course slightly and only 111 teams managed to reached the finish.
Frederik Van Lierde recently took delivery of a brand new Cervelo P5 with disc brakes. He then took it to Mexico to race the Campeche 70.3 and rode a superb 2:00:54 bike split and was first off the bike with a solid lead. He however then struggled during the run and fell back to 5th place. But let us now look at his new bike, and keep a drool bucket ready.
Dan Plews was the top age grouper at the 2018 Ironman World Championships in Kona and it looks like he might walk away – content with what he has achieved to date.
This 2019 Åsnes Expedition Amundsen is a very tough 100km skiing race over the Hardangervidda mountain plateau and about 200 folks from 9 different nations were at the start.
Ben Hoffman will soon be seen racing on this stunning Cervelo P5X and we had a closer look at his new setup for the coming racing season.
Aussie Ben Larsson has been passionately working on his Dimond Marquise and had to deal with a few setbacks along the way. He crashed during a race in Phuket where he broke 14 bones and had an encounter with a car while getting ready for 70.3 Shanghai. But at the recent 70.3 Geelong he grabbed 2nd place in M40-44 aboard this bright neon Dimond Marquise.
Allan Hovda is a 3-time Norseman champion but he is not content to sit on his laurels. He has worked feverishly on his new QR PRsix Disc to make it as wind slippery as possible, and he is also looking to make himself the smallest target for the wind.
Jacqui Giuliano is a 7th grade math teacher and an amazingly fast triathlete who was just picked up by the Suunto Multisport Team.
South African Bradley Weiss was fully dedicated to XTERRA racing the last 5 years, but now he has his eyes on the 70.3 World Championships in France. But that will not mean completely walking away from XTERRA and similar events.
There are now 4 ÖtillÖ Swimrun Merit races in the USA and that makes it much easier for North American teams to qualify for the ÖtillÖ World Championships in Sweden.
Cam Dye retired from racing as a professional triathlete at the end of the 2018 season and we had a chat with him about what he is up to now.
Photography is not the day job of Eric Wynn but he is an amazing photographer and these selected images from the 2018 Amazon Ironman World Championships make this point very clear.