As the summer training season heats up, a wealth management pro and age group IRONMAN explains how he stays present for work, training and family.

Overwhelmed by 140.6 miles? Here are three essential workouts that will get you to your first start line in race-ready shape.

This weekend, 2,500 athletes will enjoy the longest day of the year at one of the sport's most pristine race venues.

The life of an IRONMAN isn't all mud and machismo. Annie Clements Beaty on what it's like to trade leg-shaving tips with her husband.

You’ll run faster and injury-free if you can master these simple exercises from Newton Running’s director of research.

When the second edition of the MetaMan splashes off on August 31st, both defending champions will be among the starters on the beach in Bintan, Indonesia, but Brett Carter and Candice Hammond will have their work cut out to repeat...

Ben Allen (28, North Wollongong, Australia) and Helena Erbenova (34, Balatkova, Czech Republic) won the inaugural 2013 XTERRA Greece at Lake Plastira. It is Allen's sixth XTERRA World Tour win of the season (to go with a pair of runner-ups)...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation® (CAF), a world leader in helping individuals with physical challenges get involved and stay involved in sports, announced today they will auction a coveted slot to the Ironman World Championship at their seventh a…

Quite and exciting weekend of racing took place as 6 Ironman 70.3 Series races on 4 continents were on the schedule. From Japan to Kansas and places in-between, the pros and age groupers were out giving it their all....

Boris Stein (GER) and Yvonne van Vlerken (NED were today crowned the champions of 2013 Sparkasse Challenge Kraichgau presented by KraichgauEnergie with Stein also taking out the German National Half Distance Championship title. The day started with a…

2013 Ironman Coeur d'Alene race preview and Pro List and How the 70.3 World Championship will begin rotating globally in 2014.

Endurance Hour Podcast Episode #73 (6.12.13):  Exclusive Interviews with 2013 Ironman 70.3 Kansas Winners, Craig Alexander and Emma-Kate Lidbury plus Super Bowl MVP and first time Ironman 70.3 finisher, Hines Ward. We also recap the other races over…

One of my most recent projects for Ironman is called "Age Group Stories". Basically I set up my video camera somewhere in or around the Ironman Expo of a particular race and randomly pick age group athletes to join me for a sit down interview.

Dave Erickson Reports from Ironman 70.3 KansasIn the midst of the busiest weekend of the year on the IRONMAN 70.3 circuit, the community of Lawrence will host the sixth running of the IRONMAN 70.3 Kansas on Sunday.

Last weekend I was pulling double duty on the Big Island. I was providing pre-race and post race coverage of Ironman 70.3 Hawaii but this time I was also suiting up on race day and competing.

If someone had said “You should do a triathlon,” last September, Bernie Neighbor would have laughed at them. At the time, she was significantly overweight and exercise was not a part of her life.That was until one morning whenâ�¦

Brian Duffy, Jr., 25, of West Chester, Penn. won the overall amateur races at Rev3 Quassy and Knoxville. New to Rev3, he certainly proved he can out pace even the more experienced racers.Duffy, a 2010 Duke University graduate, currently�

So the 2013 edition of Rev3 Quassy is in the books and it was another phenomenal race!Rather than the boring old play-by-play this race report is going to be a little session of fact vs. fiction. I did the�

A top age grouper, Amy Krakauer, 27, placed second in the Knoxville Half this year. She’s got her swim technique down to perfection and fills her life with sport. We delve a little more into this competitive racer.Hailingâ�¦

I always enjoy coming back to race Quassy. It is such a fantastic venue for a triathlon and the course is like no other I have ever raced! The bike and run are relentless with hills that never seem to�

Let’s face it....an open water triathlon swim can be a bit uncomfortable. Whether it’s the large crowds of people pushing or elbowing on the beach or in the water for precious space, the physical adrenaline rush of the race start,...

June 9, 2013, was the 6th running of the Ironman 70.3 Kansas Triathlon. They have had their ups and downs as a race. The heat, wind, humidity and severe weather has played havoc with triathletes in the past, but in...

Madrid, Spain (7 June 2013) - The International Triathlon Union (ITU) today named Chicago as the host city for the 27th edition of the 2015 World Triathlon Grand Final. In preparation for the Grand Final, Chicago will also host a...

Where do you stuff your hydration on the bike? There are hydration belts, which most triathletes are going to use on the run, and not the bike. There are the single and double seatpost mounts. There are the frame mounted...

DALLAS – June 4, 2013 – Available today, the Ben Greenfield Fitness App gives smartphone and tablet users one access point for all of Ben's podcasts, seminars, and fitness guides. Any person looking to improve their health, decrease their waist..…

We look closer at the Giant TCR Advanced SL race bike of Team Rabobank - Liv/Giant Pro Megan Guarnier, the 2012 US Pro road champion.

This is our third and final article in our educational Power Meter series. We look at a few final graphs and attempt to distill all of the nonsense into a few succinct messages.

Kevin Metcalfe has been trying to go sub-50 for a 40k TT for more than 20 years now, and finally at age 52 he stormed to a record breaking 49:29 in the Northern California / Nevada TT Championships.

Felt has a guerrilla house brand division. It does not wage conventional war. Rather than making a full suite of saddles, handlebars stems, wheels, it picks off an occasional project and usually nails it.

Ritchie Nicholls outran fellow Great Briton Tim Don and Ireland's Eimear Mullan's better bike and run trumped Holly Lawrence's swim to take the men's and women's titles at Ironman 70.3 UK

Luke McKenzie is a five time Ironman winner with some stunning efforts on his resume including that magical 8:07 in Brazil and a 9th in Kona in 2011. A talented athlete, McKenzie has not fired in the same way this season. We chatted to him about the…

As we countdown towards the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, firstoffthebike.com’s Tim Bradley will be taking an in-depth look at who we think will shape this year’s race. In this edition, Sebastian Kienle from Germany goes under the m…

Boomtown, welcome to October! The biggest month in Triathlon! You can almost smell the Kona air! We will be on the ground during race week to give you all the latest.

The 41-year-old former professional cyclist Lance Armstrong dominated the 34th annual SuperFrog Triathlon in San Diego, California, with Australia’s Leon Griffin and Bermuda’s Tyler Butterfield rounding out the podium.

Australia’s Melissa Hauschildt finally to bed an injury-lade season with a convincing win, while Ukraine’s Maxim Kriat was strong all day to take out the men’s Ironman 70.3 Augusta title.

Photo: Delly CarrCorinne Abraham did her first Ironman in Regensburg 2010 where she was the fastest female age grouper and third overall female athlete. It

Photo: Frederic CourbetConsider, if you will, the following illustration of deductive reasoning: Great runners often make very good triathletes. Kenya is a nation

The process of tapering, or lowering training volume, in the lead-up to competition was developed by swimmers and track athletes looking

Knowing how to ride a bike is one thing, but having the ability to comfortably and safely share the road with other cyclists at a race like

Enve's SES aero bar brings adjustability and clean lines to the time trial bar market. Photo: Logan VonBokel | VeloNews.comEnve Composites announced on Tuesday that it will be adding a time trial bar system to its component range. Similar to its SES…

For the second straight year, the DC Triathlon Club of Washington, D.C., was victorious in the 2012-2013 USA Triathlon National Challenge Competition, logging more than 164,500 weighted training miles between Dec. 1, 2012, and Feb. 28, 2013.

USA Triathlon, in conjunction with KANGA Productions, is pleased to announce it will host the second installment of the 2013 USA Triathlon Super Sprint Series on Thursday, Sept. 19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Catch up on all the weekend races you might have missed, including a trio of Ironman 70.3 events and the XTERRA East Championships.

The International Triathlon Union (ITU) today announced that it has selected USA Triathlon and the City of Chicago to host events as part of the 2014 and 2015 ITU World Triathlon Series (WTS), including the 2015 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final. Begin…

The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) honored triathlete Gwen Jorgensen as its female Athlete of the Month for May following a gold-medal performance at the 2013 World Triathlon Yokohama last month.

2008 Olympic triathlon silver medallist Vanessa Fernandes will miss thissummer's London Games, the Portuguese athlete was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

New Zealand's Bevan Docherty and Canadian Angela Naeth took the titles at the inaugural Ironman 70.3 Panama. Docherty, a two-time Olympic medalist, was second out of the water and seventh off the bike, and cameacross the finish line at 3:50:13, le…

Sometimes in life, a triathlete doesn't want to go to swim practice. Andlast week, Samantha McGlone was not afraid to take an immature measure to make sure she avoided it.

Timo Bracht from Germany took today's SunSmart Ironman Western Australiatitle, showing great form on the run. Bracht was followed by NSW youngster Clayton Fettell, who led for much of the race, while third place went to course record holder Jason…

At the Ford Ironman Arizona, Great Britain's Leanda Cave had to overcomea number of obstacles before her superb performance ended with her first Ironman title.[BOX align="right"]

News: Virginia Berasategui has tested positive for drugs, IM CDA and IM France are coming out, results from some 70.3. This Weeks Discussion: Who would be the best non endurance sport athlete (like runners and cyclist) if they were to do an Ironman…

News: Results from IM Cairns, Someone is doing 30 IMs in 30 days, Rachel Joyce and Leanda Cave are injured and out of Roth, ITU update, Lots of 70.3 results. This Weeks Discussion: Dave Heywood sent through this weeks discussion. He did a race wher…

Like last weeks show we have a different kind of show this week. We have some news and then John talks through is 70.3 and does a wrap up of Epic Camp Lite. John has an interview with 2012 Ironman World Champ Pete Jacobs. We also have some interviews…

This weeks show is a little different as John is on Epic Camp Lite in Hawaii. We have interviews with people who are participating on the camp. Interview: We also have an interview with Nathan Johnson. Nathan is a blind athlete who completed IM Por…