Mac Brown was the top age grouper in St. Croix and Ironman Coeur D’Alene and closed out the 2007 season as the 4th OA age grouper at Ironman Hawaii. He is turning Pro in 2008 and talked with Slowtwitch about that and more.
by Herbert Krabel, December 11, 2007
Tim DeBoom won the Ironman World Championships in 2001 and 2002 and after a few tough years he came back to finish in the top 5 in 2007. He sat down to chat with Slowtwitch.
With global domination in mind, the LA Tri club has grown quite nicely over the last few years. We talked to their president Paul Hekimian.
27 year Bree Wee from Kailua-Kona Hawaii was the top age grouper and 13th overall female at the 2007 Ford Ironman World Champions in Hawaii. Slowtwitch had a chance to find out more about this Hawaii resident.
For our series “Profile of an age grouper”, we talk to Andy Meyer from Cohutta, GA. Andy won his age group at Ironman Florida 2007 after mostly racing road bikes for the last 2 years.
Massimo Cigana and Liz Blatchford are the winners of the 2007 edition of the Laguna Phuket Triathlon in Thailand.
At the 2007 Ironman Western Australia, Patrick Vernay was on course to break 8 hours and Charlotte Paul smashed the old course record.
The season endening triathlon World Cup turned out to be historic, as Hirokatsu Tayama became the first Japanese athlete to win a Triathlon World Cup and Nicola Spirig of Switzerland grabbed her first World cup title.
Here is the second part of the conversation with Ultraman Hawaii winner Jonas Colting. He tells us what the race was like and how he prepared for this grueling event. Part 2 of 2.
We have followed the 2007 Ironman World Championships via the internet on race day, discussed it feverishly in the forum and checked out all kinds of websites and magazines since. Now we’ll get to see the NBC coverage on Saturday.
Montana resident Linsey Corbin won the 2007 Ironman 70.3 Baja in her first pro season. Ironman Hawaii though did not go as planned, she checks in with Slowtwitch.
Several people had thrown around the idea of a Triathlon specific festival / trade show, but to this day this has not really happened. It now appears that Trifest 2008 in Tucson, Arizona will step up to the plate.
This year’s Ultraman Hawaii winner Jonas Colting, tells what the race was like, how he prepared and shares some of the thoughts that went through his head. Part 1 of 2.