Discover Your Rooting Interest for Kona 2015
Fact: Watching sports is best when you feel emotionally invested in the outcome. There’s nothing worse than watching a sporting event where you can’t get…
Opinion
Forced Upgrades: Make the Best Amateur Triathletes Turn Pro
Next weekend the best Ironman triathletes will compete in Kona for the title of world champion (of various divisions). If past history is any indication,…
Are Antidepressants Performance-Enhancing Drugs?
Doping scandals continue to rock endurance athletics. Discoveries, admissions, or allegations of EPO microdosing, abuse of therapeutic use exemptions, and the use of other performance…
Bahrain Endurance 13: An Unfortunate Number
Some of Ironman’s greatest athletes raise the question: what’s in a name? Long distance triathlon had scarcely become a legitimate sport before it had its…
Pro Triathlon Union: 5 Problems & 5 Solutions
In an article on TRS a couple of months ago, I suggested one way that pro triathletes could start to control more of their future…
Pro Kona Slot Allocation Is Not Proportional
Andrew Messick and a couple of other industry insiders keep proclaiming that professional Kona slot allocation is based on the relative numbers of pro men and…
2015 Kona Odds
Kona is three months away, but that doesn’t prevent us from speculating about who will win, podium, flame out, or surprise at the big race. …
Grow the Sport by Cultivating Local Triathlon Heroes
In a recent TRS Triathlon post by James Doran, he proposed some Big Hairy Audacious Goals including getting Ironman into the Olympics, which while seeming…
5 Step Manifesto for Growing Ironman
Let us ignore the simple problems and continual PR nightmare that must be, and could easily be solved (#50womentokona, better live coverage, KPR) and focus…
Doping in Triathlon
The recent BBC Panorama program and David Epstein’s article on ProPublica has led many to ask, what about doping in triathlon? First off, no one involved in high level sport was…