Philip Graves won the 2010 TriStar111 Estonia after a battle on the bike with Bjorn Andersson. Desiree Ficker also found the 1k swim, 100k bike and 10k run event distances to her liking and dominated the women’s race.
by Herbert Krabel, August 7, 2010
Henrik Oftedal battled defending champion Tom Remman most of the day to win the 2010 edition of the Norseman Extreme Triathlon. Defending champion Susanne Buckenlei also had quite a tough challenge on her way to the women’s title.
Trek/K-Swiss Pro Matt Lieto has shown a few times that his older brother Chris isn’t the only Lieto who can go fast in a race. We cornered BigMatt Lieto in Bend, OR where he is currently preparing for Lake Stevens 70.3.
The crew at Screen Specialty Shop has created bike industry decals for almost 30 years now. We stopped by to take a tour.
We noticed the Cerevellum digital e-ink mirror, the More Than Sport organization, the wedding of Leanda Cave and Torsten Abel, the engagement of Hillary Biscay and Maik Twelsiek, and a shaving party.
As the managing director of The Bike Boutique, Alex Bok currently has a busy schedule with a very successful team, store openings in various locations around the world and a new partnership with the World Triathlon Corporation.
Kieran Doe’s 2:12:11 bike split helped propel him to win the 2010 Viterra Calgary 70.3. Mirinda Carfrae was in great position all day long and ran a 1:20:15 to take the women’s event.
After a few quiet years, Faris Al-Sultan wins the inaugural Ironman Regensburg in his home state of Bavaria. Sonja Tajsich grabs her second title of the year after an early season success in South Africa.
James Cotter scored his biggest career success to date with his win at the 2010 Whirlpool Steelhead 70.3. Kelly Williamson finally stepped up to the very top of the podium, after several recent narrow misses.
In late May we talked to John Carson about his wild and determined journey to recovery after a terrible accident with an SUV. He then revealed his plan to race Ford Ironman Lake Placid and a couple days ago he did exactly achieve that.
The last few days we stumbled upon the SLS3 recovery tights, the LeMond Revolution trainer, the Spider Tech pre-cut kinesiology tape, the New Balance RC769 racing flats and the EnviroKidz Panda Puffs cereal.
A few days back the World Triathlon Corporation released the 2011 Kona pro qualification policy.
2 weeks ago the Professional Triathlon Association (PROTA) sent a note to World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) with their feedback on the proposed Prize Money & Qualification Standards.
