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Articles by Dan Empfield

2XU V:2 Velocity

I believe this suit every bit as fast as the TYR Hurricane. However, it’s better for the right swimmer, and I’m not him. I’m slightly long in the torso, and this company’s ideal morphology is average to leggy.

Olympic Dreams In Peril

Breakdowns in communication and planning have imperiled the Olympic dreams of several of USAT’s elite athletes. As USAT prepares to host a WTS race doubling as an Olympic Trials, few American athletes are set to compete.

Lake TX312

This is one hell of a shoe, created with passion for the sport, and it will definitely be my shoe for the coming season. Still, distribution and customer service will be this shoe company’s challenge.

Aquaman ART

If I was to pull a suit out for a leisurely open water workout with the posse, it’s very likely this is a suit I’d consider, because it’s so comfortable and easy to get on.

TYR Hurricane 5

This TYR Hurricane 5 has pluses and minuses, and usually the pluses cause the minuses. I swam in this suit, juxtaposing it with a De Soto T1 Concept 5. Here are the results.

Daniel Vertiz Emerges

The Lukas Verzbicas phenomenon is no one-off. It’s sky is raining elite prep runners who are triathletes first and runners second. The latest is track speedster Daniel Vertiz, and we had a few words with him.

Livestrong

I traveled to Austin to kick the tires of a foundation championing awareness, and to judge whether this an efficient use of money. Here’s what I saw.

blueseventy Helix (2012)

Sit back in your easy chair and curl up with The Tale of Two Torsos, featuring slices and grafts down the chest, and the question of whether or not to sever arms. Sounds like Poe short story.

What Happens in Vegas

The cards came up 21 two years in a row for Angela Naeth, and Maik Twelsiek hit the jackpot himself at the 2012 Life Time Fitness Leadman 125 Triathlon in Las Vegas.

Optimizing all Road Riding Positions

Seated, hands-on-hoods is one of five. If you’ve been fitted only to this position, you bought one-fifth of a proper fit session. All five postures inform both bike and handlebar geometries.

Felix Walchshofer on Cairns

The CEO of the Challenge Family of triathlons, Felix Walchshofer, talks to Slowtwitch about events surrounding the purchase by WTC of one of its licensees, impacting a popular race in Cairns, Australia.