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Climbing in California

 John Summerson's new edition of Climbing by Bike in California adds color and depth to the lifestyle of a training cyclist and multisporter. It's both a field guide and a devotional.
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Gourmet Goggles

 Most of the time we're spending $20 or less on TYR, Speedo, Aqua Sphere and blueseventy goggles because they work. But here's 2 goggles you should know about, from Barracuda and Zoggs.
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Are your wheels ready to race?

 What length valve stem are you using? Removable cores? What kind of sealant? What kind of extender is on your wheels? And your spares? This and more in this installment of Things That Roll.
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Valve Stems and Extenders

 Extender: one of the few words rhyming with "ender" that is not in Jackson Browne's "The Pretender". This winds Kopecky's how-to into a race-prep chapter in "Things that Roll".
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Things that roll

 In a week-long series we'll talk about wheels, tubes, tires, how to choose them, prepare them, acclimate yourself to them, and get the most out of them during the race. We begin with a discussion of wheel depth.
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State of Tri Finale

 In our final installment on the "state of tri" we see that youth us up in the U.S., the adult market is flat, as many in industry can attest, but triathlon around the world is booming like never before.
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USA Triathlon

 This is the second installment in a series on the State of Triathlon in America. An entire series chapter just on this organization is warranted because its health is so critical to triathlon.
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Rev3 cuts, repurposes purse

 The popular Rev3 Tri will cease offering a pro prize purse after its Knoxville event in May, and establish a per-race and series purse open to all-comers in its place.
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Tahoe gets bigger, easier

 Ironman Lake Tahoe deftly solved a difficult problem, difficulty being the problem. Tahoe was too hard. Ironman introduced a 70.3 on the same day as the IM, and took the steep hills out.
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State of Tri

 A lot of those in our industry, manufacturers, retailers, RDs, have been asking me if the sport is flat, up or down. I began to gather stats on this last year, here's the fruit of my investigating.
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Run shoes in 5 years

 In the series wrap I'll predict what run shoes will be like in 5 years, features that will advance and recede, and possible changes in the trajectory of several leading companies.
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Run shoe levers and footbeds

 Running has never seen this kind of divergence in technologies and theories, from barefoot all the way to hyper-structure and custom footbeds. And everything in between.