Swimming in close quarters can be intimidating to many triathletes, who often struggle to get through the first few minutes so they can settle down and just swim. With a little preparation, however, you can make those first few minutes work to your advantage.

In order to make sport a fair playing field, those that cheat the rules need to be dealt with and appropriately punished. They steal more than podium positions and glory from other athletes, they steal from the integrity of sport.

It’s fine that they don’t have electricity or running water, but it’s not good that women were discovered living and training with men.

Swim time-trial workouts look more like a real triathlon swim leg than a set of 50-meter sprints and can enhance your performance come race day.

6-time Ironman World Champion Dave Scott explains the benefits training for triathlons on a road bike can provide.

Masters swimming offers some wonderful benefits such has the social and motivational aspects of a group, and a coach to give you structured workouts and occassional feedback. However, masters workouts have their downside for many swimmers!

Only in women’s hockey…. Boozing Olympic Hockey Team in Hot Water – Cigars, champagne and joy after Canadian women’s hockey team delivers gold.

Check out Kara Goucher on the cover of the March issue of Runner’s World.  The article is pretty good too.

After challenging each other to a time trial through twitter while the two were training separately in Kona, Lance Armstrong and Chris Lieto finally met up today on Lieto’s last day on the island. The pair named it the “Twitter Time Trial” and according to Armstrong he beat Lieto by 15 seconds. Armstrong also joked… [Continue Reading]

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