this is great news, we can see the technology center from the house. Pearl have some great cycling gear and i was disappointd to see them exit the running shoe market, we have a few pairs of their shoe.

I was howevee delighted to get a free pair from their demo pool at the last wednesday night fun run from Por wine on mainstreet.

Hopefully the USAT ( Read more... )

The Jackson Hole News & Guide (JHNG) has published a somewhat detailed article and interview on their local athlete and citizen, Holly Balogh, who has been banned by Ironman and thus from any WADA affiliated sport for the next 4-years.

As per my journal update the other day, Balogh was still in denial, and attempting to race in ultra races. After ( Read more... )

[Updated: 9PM, 2/23/17 to add Outside Online article with details on costs per positive test of  $320,404]

Another "internet storm" has blown-up over on slowtwitch after it was again announced an age-grouper, Holly Balogh, had tested positive for banned substances. You can read the details here.

Slowtwitch published a detailed write-up on the ( Read more... )

Triathlon in the USA is sold as a poor man's ironman, and ironman is hard and you should nearly die trying to finish, and it's for the tough people ( Read more... )

To be more precise, just 1% of USA Triathlon's claimed 500,000 members voted at all in the recent election, and of those 3,592 voted for the board submitted amendment to the bylaws ( Read more... )

A few weeks back I got a back door notification that there were some changes afoot at USA Triathlon. I talked with a couple of people who had inside knowledge, and one who had heard change was coming. The discussions didn't lead anywhere and I didn't get specifics ( Read more... )

It's happening more and more. You've been warned.


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I'm not going to decode Dan Empfields Triathlon America? oped from this morning on slowtwitch, I don't need to, just extract a few choice sentences, or should that be sentance? Selective quoting is what drives politics right ( Read more... )

Last week I competed in the series finale event of the Life Time Fitness Triathlon series, the Toyota Dallas Open(blog post follow).  The next day, or a couple of days later the World Triathlon Corporation announced its new Olympic distance race series, the 5i50. Later that day, which ever day it was, Dan Empfield publish a piece on Slowtwitch on ( Read more... )