Virginia Berasategui, the 2009 Ironman Hawaii third place finisher and Wildflower champion had three teeth knocked when hit by a car while cycling in Mallorca.
by Tim Carlson, February 16, 2010
USAT inducted Paula Newby-Fraser and Barb Lindquist, pioneer race organizers Valerie Silk, Jim Curl and Carl Thomas.
Rebecca Dussault, Emma Garrand and Heather Best of the USA dominate women’s ITU Winter Triathlon world championship team gold; Norway takes the men’s title, US men 7th.
Rebecca Dussault of Gunnison Colorado won gold at the ITU Winter World Championship Saturday at Eidsvoll, Norway – the first US woman to win the title. Andreas Svanebo of Sweden took the men’s title.
ITU President Marisol Casado was formally elected as one of six new members of the International Olympic Committee in a meeting prior to the Vancouver Winter Games.
At the 2009 Ford Ironman Word Championships a female Brit rocked into the top ten of whom many folks had not heard of before. She has now joined Team Abu Dhabi and is ready to show that the performance in Kona wasn’t a fluke.
The 2009 ITU long course world champion and multiple Ironman 70.3 winner Timothy O’Donnell during February training in Boulder.
The next stop on the Thinkers and Tinkers express is in Salt Lake City, UT for a chat with First Endurance co-founder Robert Kunz. Robert shares what led him to leave the world of weight lifting muscles heads to create a company for folks like himself – scrawny pencilnecks who like to swim laps, ride bikes, and run for hours.
Ironman announced and retracted a set of swim apparel rule changes over a 24 hour period, reminiscent of a compression sock incident during 2009.
Last week we chatted with Funky Dude Bob Babbitt right after a very busy weekend in San Diego, and today we are continuing our interview with the man of many talents and passions. Enjoy part 2 of the conversation with Bob.
We stumbled across a new GPS watch from Timex, an aero helmet from Lazer, socks from Swobo, a Powerman weekend, a Haiti endurance fundraiser and some deadly weapons for your fridge.
Where do you think most American triathletes live? In which states? Cities? Metro areas? If your best guesses are based on what you thought a decade, or even five years, ago, you’ll be surprised.
The Slowtwitch publisher was asked to write the feature article in the 2009 Interbike Show Guide. Interbike, the bike industry’s premier trade show, allowed us to reprint the feature here.