Articles by Dan Empfield

How has the age and gender makeup of both Slowtwitch and USAT changed over the years?

Will the 60 who races the long course Ugly Dog look back and say, yes, I was there at the beginning?

Rummaging through storage I came across some old pics.

Risk is part of our sport. What we have never talked about, to my recollection, is the risk of not being a triathlete.

Don’t let “no” stop you. And, don’t say “no” to your customer.

Triathlon’s first movie airs Wednesday in movie screens around the world. Theaters in Boston, Chicago, Dallas are sold out.

I left bike manufacturing in 1999, not a moment too soon. When I started it was hobby-plus. When I exited, it was an industry.

I bought my ticket this morning for the first-ever so-described gravel bike triathlon, the Ugly Dog, outside of Ann Arbor.

Here’s a limited edition production of Slowtwitch race apparel, from De Soto.

What to call it? The Zanzibar? the Abdul-Jabbar? The Threeguyswalkintoabar? It’s my new aerobar standard.

Shimano improves the electronic 1x it’s not making. Sort of a double negative.

See this bike? That was the state of the art if you were racing more than a quarter-century ago. We’ve come a long way since.