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Cycling

Scott Plasma 20 (2011)

 The Plasma 2 frame was unobtainable during 2010 for a price below $5000. For 2011, this high quality frameset can be had in a bike selling complete, with a very nice gruppo, for $3300. Today we take a look at that bike.
Cycling

Trek Speed Concept 7.5 (2011)

 Trek has finally come out to play in the sport of triathlon. They engage in every price range with a bike that's imaginative and well conceived. The Speed Concept 7.5 is a strong entry in the mid-$3000 category.
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Rev3 Full goes to Cunnama, Marsh

 The Rev3Tri season finale, a full ultra distance race, was won by South African James Cunnama and America's Amy Marsh. The season series championships were taken by David Thompson and Sam Warriner
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Bill Logue’s bottled magic

 in the mid 1990s, Bill Logue's product shot to the top of the charts. He sold his company at its zenith. I got a call last month from Wendy Ingraham: "Bill Logue is back." Can Logue bottle magic a second time?
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Your bike flies assembled to Kona

 Tri Bike Transport, the company known for transporting bikes to races in trucks, is introducing a new twist: It'll fly your bike fully assembled to Kona for the Ironman.
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The Bib

 Americans aren't confused with connoisseurs. Not that we're neanderthals, just we exit the womb at full speed; we slow down long enough to enjoy, but not to savor. Time to up our game. Time to appreciate the bib.
Triathlon

Felt’s 2011 DA white paper

 It used to be that a brochure was enough. Not any more. A superbike without a white paper just doesn't seem that super. Here's the authoritative guide on the 2011 DA.
Triathlon

Felt’s 2011 DA

 It's been just 3.5 years since Felt remade its tri line-up, top to bottom. But you can't stand pat these days. Here's Felt's new mold, the DA for 2011. Felt's stab at a superbike hits its mark.
Running

Mating feet to shoes

 We're talking running footwear against the backdrop of an article in today's NYT that either misunderstands, or faithfully represents a misunderstanding, of how feet are best mated to running shoes.
Training

Junk miles

 There are no junk miles. Only junk theories. And one junk theory is the notion of junk miles. If you have unwanted miles you're preparing for the junk heap, just haul them over to my house, I'll take them off your hands.
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My relationship with food

 An incident last week occasioned an opportunity to rethink my historic relationship with food. The adjoining thumbnail says it all. Mine is the Great American eating disorder: overfull plates, overfull stomachs.