Recently I was lying on a table while a physio friend of mine inflicted the kind of pain on my buttocks you’d normally have to pay serious cash for in Soho. As I lay there squawking like a castrated parrot every time he elbowed me in the hamstrings, he engaged me in small talk about…
It looks like European nations delivered four of the five fastest average finish times at this year’s Ironman World Championship, with Spanish athletes delivering an impressive 10:19hrs average for the 140.6 miles. Advertisement That’s according to the latest round of analysis from tri statistician Raymond Britt, who says that the next four fastest average finish…
Want to experience what it’s like to ride in the pro peloton? Hurt specialists The Sufferfest have teamed up with Team Giant-Shimano to create a new training video that casts you, the viewer, as a rookie plucked from obscurity to join your heroes. Advertisement “When this amateur, this unknown Sufferlandrian came through, beating some of…
With this year’s Challenge Vichy done and dusted, the organisers have released the 2014 highlights, with a particular focus on the age-group races this year…. Advertisement Around 2,000 athletes took part in central France last August, with defending champion Andrej Vistica (CRO) winning the men’s race and Hungary’s Gabriella Zelinka overtaking 2012 winner Martina Dogana…
New on the scene in 2013, the Clumber Park Off-Road Duathlon is now in its 4th year and attracts competitors for an exhilarating combination of woodland biking and trail running. The 3,800-acre National Trust Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire is the setting, a beautiful parkland with vast areas of woodland. Advertisement The course’s two runs take…
Despite the promise of “rivers of mud” at the official course recce, this year’s Xterra Worlds in Hawaii delivered blue skies and slightly cooler temperatures for a stellar end to the 2014 off-road season. Click Here: gaa 2 stripe jersey Advertisement Bermuda’s Flora Duffy won her first Worlds title despite a hard crash on the…
The world of optical heart rate monitors for athletes is growing fast – Fitbit has just taken the wraps off its new Surge, a ‘Fitness Super Watch’ which combines eight (count ‘em) sensors including GPS and optical HRM. Advertisement Unveiled alongside the more affordable Charge (£99) and Charge HR (£119) models – which combine activity tracking,…
The dates are confirmed – triathlon’s test events for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held on 1-2 August next year, with qualification points up for grabs and huge crowds expected. Advertisement The routes will take athletes along Copacabana beach on the restaurant-lined Avenida Atlantica, with the Olympic course also…
Following this morning’s news that triathlon’s test events for the Rio 2016 Olympics will take place on 1-2 August next year, 220 columnist Tim Heming offers his thoughts… Click Here: Highlanders Jersey Advertisement It’s clearly not been easy to secure a date and fix the course for the necessary test event for Rio and the…
Eton Dorney – known as one of the flattest and fastest triathlon tracks in the UK – has been chosen to host a qualifying event for the 2015 ITU Sprint Distance Triathlon World Championships. Advertisement The Eton Sprints will take place on 23 May next year, sending athletes on a 750m swim in the famous…