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Articles by Dan Empfield

Electronics Ecosystems

Imagine your cardiologist noting, from 3 months of your WKO files, that atrial fibrillation tracks with moments when you’re dehydrated or when you’re training too hard.

The Death of Guru

Going back a decade, GURU was making custom bikes out of all four frame materials. It did it all in 6-thousand feet of space that looked like Agent Q’s MI5 workshop.

Subversive Tri

What makes a race subversive? The refusal to play by the rules. Ironman was subversive in 1980 because it was outrageous and ungovernable.

Who is an Athlete?

When you read Clarence King’s Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, it feels like extreme and endurance sports undertaken on the boss’s dime.

Changes for Andy Potts

New bike (Cannondale) and apparel (Sugoi) sponsor, new amateur club-team… Andy Potts just turned 39 but he’s only warming up.

TBI Conference for 2016

Triathlon’s most skillful sausage makers headline TBI’s annual Conference upcoming, but the Conference’s freshest voice might be that of Norseman’s Dag Oliver.

Letters to a Friend

A man who’s been a member for about three years began a thread. He repented and quickly deleted this post, so only a few saw what he wrote. But I did.

No Skill for Living

My long tenure in endurance sport isn’t constancy unless a marooned sailor adrift at sea shows constancy by not quitting his lifeboat.

Smart Trainers

Unlike children where a precocious tendency might be a sign of intellect, there is no value in a sassy trainer.

Turbo Trainers

The ubiquitous product for indoor cycling. Attaches to the rear of the bike, suspends it just above the ground, exerts some form of resistance while you pedal.

Rollers

This month 3 in 10 Slowtwitchers said their year-end spend will be on stationary training, equal to all other sport spending combined. Here is one class of stationary trainer.

Wahoo KICKR SNAP

I thought the SNAP was a watered down version of the KICKR. After a couple months of heavy use, it’s much more than that.