Victory in Singapore!

Crowie started his '09 season with a BANG with dominating 70.3 wins in Geelong, Australia and in yesterday's supposed showdown with Macca. Crowie left no doubt about his early season fitness with a nearly four-minute victory in the searing heat and humidity in Singapore.

Why Aussie's move to Boulder

Over the last few summers, Boulder is becoming home to a growing number of Australian triathletes. Most claim it's because of our mountains, training at altitude, proximity to an international airport, and abundance of running trails, but we've discovered the real reason. They can't even escape sharks during an ocean swim race!

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-GB&vid=50acdbeb-b61a-460f-9c01-6596a442b37c

New Ironman race heading to Utah in 2010

http://www.examiner.com/x-2490-Denver-Endurance-Sports-Examiner~y2009m2d6-St-George-Utah-to-host-new-Ironman-race-in-May-of-2010

Don't Mess with Lance on the Media stand

Paul Kimmage is pretty brave. Taking on Lance in front of the Media. Brave or Stupid?

FIt Institute of Slow Twitch

The man has spoken...using his Retul system to validate his theories. Another fine bike fit article written by Dan Empfield

"....What both Jordan Rapp (my F.I.S.T. workshop "lieutenant" and one of triathlon's top cyclists) and I, in our n=2 experiment, have discovered is that we pair of 6'2" riders have found that 172.5mm cranks seem most appropriate for our own timed racing efforts. What I don't know is what my best crank arm length is for road riding. I rather think it depends on the specialty. For example, criterium riding is a lot more like timed racing than like, say, long ascents. My flat-back, on-the-rivet, hands-in-the-drops try like hell to keep the elastic from snapping seated sprint out of a corner is pretty much identical to my TT position, just that I don't have amrests under my elbows. Indeed, my closed hip angle in this position is 48°, identical to this angle in my TT position, as determined by a Retul motion capture analysis."

READ ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE

Pearl is Cool

The Retul team met with Pearl Izumi today re some potential co-operative projects and for most of us, it was the first time in their new(er) building. Exciting Stuff. All I have to say is....that company iiis cool and mucho generoso as well. Saw a sneak peak at the new Garmin team getups - and it looks like triathlon will see be seeing a newly signed familiar face wearing Pearl this year. Retul Training Date tomorrow

Earmarks

Now that's an Earmark

I'm annoyed as hell by all the promises made in the recent US Presidential campaign about "going line by line to eliminate unnecessary earmarks", introduced by tainted politicians. I mean millions of dollars for the Utah Mormon Cricket problem? Come on! If the Bicycle Industry got a few million for the purposes of promoting fat Americans to ride their bikes to work, wouldn't that be better than promoting "astronomy, irradiating Utah crickets, and funding pork research?" This is ridiculous - 9000 earmarks??

Are the people running this country smoking the Phelps? Why is like half of Obama's staff getting caught cheating on their taxes? Apparently these senators don't feel like they have to pay Uncle Sam....and are they volunteering these "supposed" oversights before they get caught?? Of course not. The White House needs to get a clue and realize that if the American people can't trust them, then there are far worse problems than a few crickets crawling on Salt Lake City's temples.

The photo above is the type of earmark I would like to give to those who are proposing such fiscal irresponsibility. And finally to end my rant....Bernie Madoff should be put in Gitanamo Bay