After 5 years as the Bicycle Expert at the A2 Wind Tunnel working with tons of different brands and athletes Mike Giraud is going to work for Blue Competition Cycles as as the Product Development Specialist.
by Herbert Krabel, June 20, 2011
Brian Fleischmann has been racing as a professional for over a decade and raced the ITU WC Series, 70.3 Worlds, Rev3 events and the new 5150 series. Here he discusses his past, present and future.
Blue Competition Cycles went to the A2 Wind Tunnel with Ironman Champion Heather Wurtele, Indy Car driver Alex Lloyd and fast Belgian age grouper Pieter De Neve.
French Pro Bertrand Billard beat Stuart Hayes and Josh Amberger to the title of the inaugural 5150 Klagenfurt in Austria. Radka Vodickova held off Nikki Butterfield and a slightly less crowded women’s field for the win.
TJ Tollakson stormed to the win at the Subaru Ironman 70.3 Eagleman after a monster 2:03:41 bike split. Mirinda Carfrae crushed the competition on the run to take the women’s title.
Doug Martin is the North American Director of Marketing for Felt Bicycles and he is a very busy man. He doesn’t really like to be in the limelight but we cornered him and asked him a few questions.
Matty White took second place at Challenge Cairns and also earned the runner-up spot at 70.3 Busselton and Ironman Western Australia. But it appears that the blond Aussie firefighter is ready to move up one more step.
During the summer the Carolina Cycling Time Trial Association offers Time Trials at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and we were there to check it out.
A few days ago Brazilian race car driver Vitor Meira raced the Indy 500 and has quite a few other IndyCar races to tackle this season. But when Meira is not in a fast car he loves to swim, bike and run.
Lukas Verzbicas just ran a stunning 8:29:46 at the 2-mile distance at the Prefontane Classic, smashing the High School record. But before Verzbicas competes in college this fall he has some unfinished business in triathlon.
WTC today announced the 2012 Ironman US Championship in metropolitan New York City – New Jersey. Combined with yesterday’s unveiling of Ironman Mont-Tremblant in Canada there will be 2 new Ironman events in North America.
James Cunnama and Julie Dibens were the winners at the 2011 Rev3 Quassy Triathlon and took the lion share of the $150,000 purse. Enjoy this race gallery by Eric Wynn.
Andreas Raelert ran down Sebastian Kienle late in the race to win the Challenge Kraichgau. Yvonne Van Vlerken battled Rachel Joyce but at the end had to hold off Julia Wagner to take the women’s title.