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The Death of Guru

Going back a decade, GURU was making custom bikes out of all four frame materials. It did it all in 6-thousand feet of space that looked like Agent Q's MI5 workshop.

by Slowman, January 8, 2016

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Subversive Tri

What makes a race subversive? The refusal to play by the rules. Ironman was subversive in 1980 because it was outrageous and ungovernable.

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Who is an Athlete?

When you read Clarence King's Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, it feels like extreme and endurance sports undertaken on the boss's dime.

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Letters to a Friend

A man who's been a member for about three years began a thread. He repented and quickly deleted this post, so only a few saw what he wrote. But I did.

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No Skill for Living

My long tenure in endurance sport isn't constancy unless a marooned sailor adrift at sea shows constancy by not quitting his lifeboat.

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TBI Conference for 2016

Triathlon's most skillful sausage makers headline TBI's annual Conference upcoming, but the Conference's freshest voice might be that of Norseman's Dag Oliver.

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Changes for Andy Potts

New bike (Cannondale) and apparel (Sugoi) sponsor, new amateur club-team... Andy Potts just turned 39 but he's only warming up.

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Rev3 careful with pro money

The Rev3 is back as Rev3, out from under the Challenge banner, announcing a careful, and carefully scaled, approach to its pro purse for 2016 and beyond.

Swimming

Crossing the Sun’s Anvil

There is a long, straight, dry stretch in front of me. Almost 2 months mostly out of the pool. Can I keep my swim fitness?

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Starykowicz in full

Andrew did not engage in any warm up for this interview. The fastest bike rider in Ironman racing was vintage himself from the first question.

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She Rides in the Middle East

Wajeeha Al-Husseini is a Palestinian by birth, Jordanian by nationality, raised in Saudi Arabia, educated in the West. She'll sell you a P5 or a Shiv, but you have to come to Qatar to get it.