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by Alan Couzens, MS (Sports Science)

In the last article on getting to "Know Your Enemy" we took a look at how athletes can best make use of the new mapping technology available to all of us via the internet. In that piece I suggested that it’s very much "worth the trouble" to download the elevation data to a spreadsheet so that you can see what sort of grades you’re dealing with over the course of your A race. So you’ve got lots of nice little numbers in front of you right now. The next questi…

Thanks to Universal Sports’ coverage of the 2010 Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series, American multisport enthusiasts will have the chance to follow the top U.S. triathletes after each race of the seven-stop WCS.

After debuting coverage of the Sydney opener in April, Universal Sports…

Ironman Japan has been officially cancelled. Due to foot and mouth disease the race has been called off. For more details, click here.

Professional triathlete and former Ironman World Champion, Chris McCormack, invited us along for a training day in Auburn, Alabama. This is real Macca—insightful, honest, and outspoken

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Daily Triathlon will be taking on a new look. The changes will include a new logo (above) and a new site. We hope the new format will help readability of the stories. We will also be featuring original content by Daily Triathlon staff, contributors, guest authors, and visitors to the site. As always, we will…

There are certain runs that you tell yourself you absolutely have to do sometime. There’s the Boston Marathon, there’s Big Sur, and then there’s the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim. Today on Endurance Planet we hear from veteran runner John Schultz of Scottsdale, Arizona who is quite familiar with running th…

Time again for a Week in Multisport edition of Endurance Planet with Barry Siff of Daily Triathlon. This week Barry discusses the amazing story of a Florida age-group triathlete who ended up fighting with an alligator during an open water swim workout. Barry also shares the story of a pro triathlete who en…

The inaugural TriGrandPrix (www.trigrandprix.com) event, the Outrageous Half took place this past weekend, and boasted an exceptionally strong professional field battling for a rather tasty £40,000 in prize money - a very attractive offer, especially for…

As a professional athlete I feel the need to voice my opinion on the new policy changes that have recently been instigated by the company with the monopoly over long-distance triathlon – the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC). While the new policies are focused on professional athletes I think it’s…

They are known most often by their nicknames "Snowy," "Moffy" and "Jacko" which could make it slightly less confusing if these three Australian Emmas make it to the start line of the women's triathlon at the London 2012 Olympics.

Snowy is Beijing Olympic gold medalist Emma Snowsill. Moffy is world champion and…

What an exciting day of racing here in Florianopolis. Both the men and women's races were hotly contested and resulted in champions that are both in the midst of career-making winning streaks.

Cool Hand Luke
In the men’s race, Australia’s Luke McKenzie took out the race in his typical fashion: all out. He…

Up-and-coming triathletes Gwen Jorgensen and Gregory Billington led the way for Team USA Sunday with top-five finishes at the 10th FISU World University Championships.

Jorgensen (Milwaukee, Wis.), who has only held her elite license since March, made a strong surge at the end to finish second in one hour, 55 minutes, 26 seconds, just seven seconds behind the female winner. A 2008 FISU competitior and member of Project 2016, Billington (Spokane, Wash.) crossed the line in 1:44:33 in fifth place.…

Frenchman Franky Batelier was just 15 seconds faster than Olivier Marceau, but that was all he needed to to keep his six-race winning streak alive at the Xterra European Championship in Italy today. In the women’s race, Canadian Melanie McQuaid picked up her first win of season, and her second i…

Cyclingnews.com spotted a Kestrel 4000 under a Footon-Servetto team member in the Giro TTT. It was disguised with a Fuji badge, as Advanced Sports owns both Fuji and Kestrel. Brand Manager Steve Harad has said all along that the 4000 was meant to be UCI-legal and I would say this confirms it. I am expecting to…

About four months ago, we did a lengthy series on barefoot running, which began with this post on the latest research from the Harvard lab looking at how habitual barefoot runners' mechanics different from shod runners'. That was followed up by a six-part series, done in Q & A format, where we looked at the evidence for barefoot running as a means to prevent injury.

In that very first post, looking at the Harvard study, we made mention of barefoot running being a "stimulus plan for physical…

Austria was the scene this weekend of some super quick running. Forget the rest of the race for the men the real story here was the speed out of T2. The world of 70.3 racing has become so competitive that any pro who wants success at this really needs to have a sub 1:11 half marathon packed away with them.

This point was empahsised emphatically this weekend in Austria at their 70.3. The field was red hot and contained some of the best runners in the business and they provided a show that might…

A new line of Ironman-branded premium sports drinks developed by the sports nutrition experts at PowerBar® is being launched today. Ironman® PERFORM™ sports drink features PowerBar's state-of-the-art C2MAX carbohydrate blend, found to deliver 20 to 50 percent more energy to muscles and improve endurance per…

It was pointed out by my father that many of my posts deal with injury and illness. I explained that the original intention of this blog was to chronicle my story of healing from the crash in November. My purpose was two-fold; writing about the aftermath of a serious incident would serve as an outlet for me as…

Although I can’t definitively comment on the aerodynamics of the D-6, the headtube, seat tube and chainstays follow design convention with a narrow and deep profile. The bike strays from traditional aerodynamic design with wide fork blades and an enormous cluster of carbon at the junction of the seat and…

For years, well intentioned coaches and exercise physiologists have given endurance athletes very strong recommendations to ensure high carbohydrate intake during training and racing to optimize performance. Some recent experimental evidence and the actual practice of some very successful athletes has many…