She’s part of a wave of great British women long course triathletes. After winning the ITU Long Distance World Championship, Rachel Joyce is coming into her own. An interview by Timothy Carlson.
by Tim Carlson, November 11, 2011
Jordan Rapp talked with Timothy Carlson about winning his first world title, the 2011 ITU Long Distance World Championships, which occurred on Saturday in Henderson, Nevada.
He’s only been on the job four months, but Andrew Messick is stamping his imprimatur on triathlon’s marquis brand. Here he chats with us about Kona, Las Vegas, the pros, Tampa, and the new way the lottery works.
Nick Warren is another age grouper we recently met in a random manner. Like many others, he is very focused on family and job and works out when he finds time – but his day job is quite unique.
Greg Billington recently recorded a 4th place at the U23 World Championships in Beijing, China and the Wake Forest University grad has some other fine results on his resume. Sal Farruggia had a few words with him.
If Josiah Middaugh had not flatted and carried his bike some of the last mile at Ogden, he might have won XTERRA USA Nationals. His take on the strong men’s field at Kapalua.
Cody Westheimer is an age grouper who got to the Ironman World Championships with a lottery slot and his video diary of his day in Kona touched many of us. We had a few words with this very creative man.
We are starting a new interview series on slowtwitch where we chat with random age groupers and Bob Schloegel from Kansas City is our very first guest along those lines. Bob races in M45-49 and actually happens to be quite fast.
French age grouper Nicolas Hemet went 9:03:11 in Kona and was 45th overall, but in the strong M30-34 age group that meant 8th place. But Nicolas still seems to be in a content place.
European 70.3 Champion Andreas Böcherer came to Kona to get a feel for this famous event and returned to Europe with a very fine 8th place. He had a few words with slowtwitch about his experience there.
Approaching XTERRA Worlds in Maui, Lance Armstrong reflects on the motivation behind his return to tri, the mechanics of his triathlon ability, and the part he’s playing in bicycle safety and advocacy.
Belgian age grouper Sam Gyde has been racing Ironman events since 2007 and went sub-9 for the first time in Florida in 2010. In Kona this year he won his age group in 8:50:09 but surprisingly that might not be his trip highlight.
The 29-year-old Australian was an up-and-coming talent and actually had some fine results. Then he broke into the orbit of the greats with a 2nd at the 2011 Ford Ironman World Championships in Kona.