Articles by Dan Empfield

If you’re a Newton fan, but, feel more like an ice skater than a runner when you contact wet or icy surfaces, there’s good news for you: The Newton Running All Weather shoe.

Jeff Henderson, RD of the Musselman Tri, authored an insightful newbie race director’s diary in 2003. He begins a new set of installments: A chronicle of what he’s learned in the intervening 7 years.

It’s Chrissie’s bike, and Mirinda’s, and it can be yours too for a paltry sum, as bikes go. Among those selling complete all-carbon tri bikes, Cannondale joins Felt and QR in the circa-$2000 club.

Performance increases are not straight-line, rather, they’re like the stock market: lots of ups, a fair share of downs, but up over the long haul Well, maybe that’s a bad analogy considering the past decade.

You’re nearing the end. You’re probably ready to race now. So, it’s mostly a case of hitting your taper, not getting injured, improving here and there, and staying enthused.

I’m always drawn to that place in a company’s lineup where the company’s bean counters wince as they look at how much money they’re not making. Here’s the bean-counter’s nightmare.

Saturday the race site needs to rise from the earth, and each athlete has approximately thirty questions they would like to ask, preferably now. But as my wife often tells me, I signed up for the job.

This 2010 Seduza is a singular example of this American company with a Mexican name’s resurgence. It’s a full-carbon monocoque chassis with all the sex features.

Your long swim week under your best (you did do this, didn’t you?), how ’bout let’s try switching to another event, and we’ll try to make some progress on the bike?

Attention budding race directors: Here’s yet another attempt at quantifying how much it costs to put on a triathlon, and what it breaks down to by line item.

Aid stations can be cost centers, profit centers, or neutral centers. No matter of the size of your race, they can be done well, and cheaply. I like to think of them as stationary parade floats.

Have you ever considered where bike racks come from? I hadn’t, until I decided to run a triathlon. Now I suddenly need a million of them, and sadly they don’t show up in the Sears catalog.