News & Racing World 100km Treadmill Record Falls in Sydney for the KIDS Foundation A team of some of our best athletes took to the treadmill today in Bondi to attempt to break the world 100km treadmill record. The previous record of 5 hr 42 min 32 sec and was set by Jack Anderson, John Anderson, Brant Armentrout, Nate Ayers, James Banner, Tim Doran, Bill Gibbs, Garick Hill, Alan [ By Karl Hayes • 15 years ago
Craig ‘Crowie’ Alexander to race in Ironman Melbourne 2012 Current World Ironman Champion Craig Alexander has announced that he will be racing at Ironman Melbourne in March this year. Racing in the inaugural Melbourne Ironman seems to have a lot of pulling power with many of Australia's leading iron men and women signing up to take take part. In addit
Feb 3, 2012 World 100km Treadmill Record Falls in Sydney for the KIDS Foundation A team of some of our best athletes took to the treadmill today in Bondi to attempt to break the world 100km treadmill record. The previous record of 5 hr 42 min 32 sec and was set by Jack Anderson, John Anderson, Brant Armentrout, Nate Ayers, James Banner, Tim Doran, Bill Gibbs, Garick Hill, Alan [
Feb 3, 2012 Craig ‘Crowie’ Alexander to race in Ironman Melbourne 2012 Current World Ironman Champion Craig Alexander has announced that he will be racing at Ironman Melbourne in March this year. Racing in the inaugural Melbourne Ironman seems to have a lot of pulling power with many of Australia's leading iron men and women signing up to take take part. In addit
Feb 2, 2012 Richard Thompson to Defend Hell of the West Title against some Tough Opposition Reigning champion Richard Thompson faces a tough field including Tim Berkel and Ollie Whistler at this weekend's Hell of the West triathlon, where he'll look to defend his title despite carrying a foot injury.
Jan 31, 2012 Olympic hopeful Emma Jackson to Kick off her 2012 Season at the Seven Sunshine Coast Enduro Triathlon 2012 Olympic hopeful Emma Jackson will make her race debut for the year at the Seven Sunshine Coast Enduro Triathlon on Sunday February 5, in what is shaping up as the biggest year of her young career as she embarks on her path to securing a place in the Australian team to contest the London Games in August. 20-year old Jackson finished the 2011 season as our highest ranked female, finishing fourth in the World Series. “This will be a great event to kick start my 2012 racing season, I am doing
Jan 28, 2012 30 Kona Slots up for Grabs at Lixil Ironman 70.3 Centrair Tokoname Japan World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) has announced that general entry registration for the third annual Ironman 70.3 Centrair Tokoname Japan will open on Jan. 31, 2012. With this being the only Ironman World Championship qualifier in the region, race organisers have added additional entries; how
Jan 27, 2012 Aaron Royle Defends Aquathon Title in a Sprint to the Finish Aaron Royal, on his 22nd birthday, was able to defend his Australia Day Aquathon title after winning today's event, a 900mtr swim/7km run in a time of 36.52. It came down to a sprint finish with Royle narrowly crossing the line ahead of NSWIS team mate Shane Barrie who returns to the racing sc
Jan 26, 2012 Challenge Wanaka in the Athletes Words The race has been run, and won. Trizone caught up with some of the top athletes post race to get the inside story on the challenge in Wanaka. Winner of the men's event Aaron Farlow was very happy to have to come away with a good result after what he felt was a pretty poor […]
Jan 26, 2012 Swimming Training for Triathlon: Is it That important? Triathlon is a sum of three component parts. The swim leg, generally speaking, comprises the least of the 3 time components that make up the sport. A swim leg can range from the 750 metres of a sprint distance race, to the 3.8 km Ironman event. Many variables come into play in a Triathlon swim leg; water temperature, body of water (seawater/ocean, lake, river), and conditions (smooth, choppy, current affected etc). The majority of triathletes are professional people with a generous amount of di
Jan 25, 2012 WTC Makes Changes to 5150 Triathlon Series Qualifying Opportunities The WTC has revamped the Hy-Vee Triathlon 5150 US Championship qualifying process, now featuring expanded automatic qualifications and a prize pool of $1.1 million, attracting top athletes globally.
Jan 24, 2012 Giant Bicycles signs Ironman WA second placed Clayton Fettell Australia's Clayton Fettell has signed with the world's most innovative brands, bicycle manufacturer Giant Bicycles. Clayton caught the eye of Giant after taking his first Ironman 70.3 title at Port Macquarie in November 2011 and then backing up to just miss out on a win at Ironman WA in
Jan 23, 2012 Ollie Whistler and Sarah Fletcher win triseries Nowra Olympic Distance Triathlon In what turned out to be a very close race Ollie Whistler just managed to hold out a very fast finishing David Mainwaring. After coming out of the water almost a minute down Whistler proceeded to put over four minutes on Mainwaring on the bike. Even a puncture (holted with Stans Notubes) which he ma