Emily Finanger turned Pro and got married in 2006 and spent part of her honeymoon racing and winning the 2007 Norseman Xtreme triathlon in Eidfjord, Norway. Meet this Boulder, CO transplant.
by Herbert Krabel, December 17, 2007
Until a few weeks ago, Charlotte Paul had raced 13 Ironman events and has finished as high as second place. Now she has won the 2007 Ironman Western Australia and she talked to Slowtwitch.
Amanda Lovato shares some of her thoughts about racing and training with us and reflects on a season she calls the worst year of racing in her Ironman career. Find out more about this pro triathlete / realtor.
Mac Brown was the top age grouper in St. Croix and Ironman Coeur D’Alene and closed out the 2007 season as the 4th OA age grouper at Ironman Hawaii. He is turning Pro in 2008 and talked with Slowtwitch about that and more.
Tim DeBoom won the Ironman World Championships in 2001 and 2002 and after a few tough years he came back to finish in the top 5 in 2007. He sat down to chat with Slowtwitch.
With global domination in mind, the LA Tri club has grown quite nicely over the last few years. We talked to their president Paul Hekimian.
27 year Bree Wee from Kailua-Kona Hawaii was the top age grouper and 13th overall female at the 2007 Ford Ironman World Champions in Hawaii. Slowtwitch had a chance to find out more about this Hawaii resident.
For our series “Profile of an age grouper”, we talk to Andy Meyer from Cohutta, GA. Andy won his age group at Ironman Florida 2007 after mostly racing road bikes for the last 2 years.
Massimo Cigana and Liz Blatchford are the winners of the 2007 edition of the Laguna Phuket Triathlon in Thailand.
At the 2007 Ironman Western Australia, Patrick Vernay was on course to break 8 hours and Charlotte Paul smashed the old course record.
The season endening triathlon World Cup turned out to be historic, as Hirokatsu Tayama became the first Japanese athlete to win a Triathlon World Cup and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland grabbed her first World cup title.
For the new series “the bikes of the pros” we want to know more about the Cucuma/Walser of Timo Bracht (GER). He won Ironman Europe in 2007 and he talks candidly to Slowtwitch about his ride.
Here is the second part of the conversation with Ultraman Hawaii winner Jonas Colting. He tells us what the race was like and how he prepared for this grueling event. Part 2 of 2.
