by Rich Roll On the eve of his 40th birthday, Rich Roll was climbing a flight of stairs in his home and had to stop halfway to catch his breath. It was a pivotal moment in his life. While in college, Rich was an athletic swimmer who reached national status in the butterfly stroke and […]
After the string of bad luck I had this year with race cancellations, I was finally able to achieve my goal of completing a triathlon this year. Last weekend my wife and I participated in a race named “One Last Tri”. The event is so named because it is the last outdoor triathlon of the […]
This will actually be my second attempt at my first triathlon. I signed up for one in July and had all my gear ready top go but a wicked thunderstorm rolled through on the morning of the race. Ironically, my first triathlon is called “One Last Tri” since it’s the last open-water triathlon held in […]
I signed up for the Lifetime Fitness Minneapolis Triathlon way back in February when registration first opened up. I had originally registered for the international distance but switched to the sprint distance in late June. It was obvious that 1640 yard swim was out of my realm but the sprint was only 450 yards which […]
by Chrissie Wellington Ironman legend, Chrissie Wellington is a straight-up badass. She started in 13 Ironman races and won all of them. Among them were four world championships. In this book, she tells a lot of the details behind those victories in addition to the full story of how she got into the world of […]
By Matt Fitzgerald This book has a few chapters that seemed a bit longer than they needed to be but there are some really, really interesting stories that make up for it. This book obviously covers a lot more than just the legendary 1989 Ironman in Kona, Hawaii. It tells the entire history of Dave […]
