Articles by Jordan Rapp

News

Alexander and Carfrae run away with Rev3 Quassy

Craig Alexander broke Matt Reed's 2009 course record - and his hopes of a $125,000 Rev3 sweep - as he ran to victory in Middlebury. Mirinda Carfrae erased a 7-minute deficit to out of T2 to repeat, and erase Julie Dibens' hopes of a $125,000 bonus as well.

by Jordan Rapp, June 6, 2010

News

Roller Coaster Rev3

The 2nd Annual Rev3 Quassy featured a roller coaster bike ride for participants and real rollers coasters for spectators and family. A photo gallery by Jordan Rapp.

Cycling

Trek’s White Paper 2.0 – The Speed Concept (2010)

Trek released their SpeedConcept to the public on May 22nd at the Tour of California time trial. This white paper from Trek tells their story of the bike before that grand unveiling.

News

Thinkers & Tinkers: TJ Tollakson of Ruster Sports

Thinkers and Tinkers heads to Tucson, AZ (by way of Des Moines, IA) for a visit with TJ Tollakson, the founder of Ruster Sports. An engineer by training, TJ wasn't content to turn off his brain when he made the commitment to leaving job with ALCOA behind to focus on instead on winning races as a professional triathlete.

News

Thinkers & Tinkers: Robert Kunz of 1st Endurance

The next stop on the Thinkers and Tinkers express is in Salt Lake City, UT for a chat with First Endurance co-founder Robert Kunz. Robert shares what led him to leave the world of weight lifting muscles heads to create a company for folks like himself - scrawny pencilnecks who like to swim laps, ride bikes, and run for hours.

News

Thinkers and Tinkers: Jasper Blake and 7Systems

In a continuation of series on "Thinkers & Tinkers" in the sport, we look at Ironman winner Jasper Blake and the company he helped found - Aspire Sports Supplements, makers of 7Systems vitamins.

News

Rappstar’s Ironman Arizona Charity Challenge: Part Deux

Updates to Jordan Rapp's Ironman Arizona Charity Challenge including more prizes, an anonymous donor matching $1,000,000 in gifts, and a one week extension to reach a new target goal.

News

Back to BASEics

In the first article in a new series on "Thinkers & Tinkers" in the sport, we look at Chris Lieto and his sports nutrition company BASE Performance.

News

Rappstar’s Ironman Arizona Charity Challenge

$134 buys a bicycle for a child in Africa. We're trying to send 100 of them. What's in it for you? Some pretty sweet prizes from SRAM, Zipp, and more...

Industry

Open Up and Say “Ah(mazing)”: Oakley JAWBONE

Oakley’s new Jawbone sunglasses set a new benchmark for sport sunglasses. With the customarily outstanding optics and fit that Oakley is known for, it is the ease of changing lenses that really puts these new shades a cut above.

News

Talking ‘Bout A Revolution(3)

Pro triathlete Heather Gollnick sits down with Slowtwitch to talk about what lead her to step out of her racing flats and into the shoes of a race organizer as part of the brand new Rev3 triathlon.

News

Lance Armstrong: Training in Kona, Thinking of Ironman

Chris Carmichael gives Slowtwitch readers insight into Lance Armstrong, his Ironman plans, and his fitness as we watch the triathlete turned 7-time TdF winner train in Kona, just before his return to cycling action in Australia.

Training

Slowtwitch.com’s training log goes live

After a long period of beta testing, kicking tires, taking pulses, and consulting entrails, we are proud to announce the newest addition to the Slowtwitch family, our workout training log at training.slowtwitch.com.