World Triathlon Corporation Announces Professional Athlete Program

Waterloo, WI and Maui, HI—Bontrager athlete Julie Dibens became the first athlete in history to win three consecutive Xterra World Championships, racing to victory in Sunday’s 28.5 mile event around the Makena Beach & Golf Resort in Maui, Hawaii. With her win, Julie Dibens also became the fourth member of an exclusive group of three-time Xterra World Championship winners.

(October 28, 2009 -- Los Gatos, CA)   ROCKTAPE, the leader in kinesiology tape for athletes, has announced the availability of its newest product, the PowerTapingtm manual. The PowerTaping method “tapes movements, not muscles”tm. 

Press Release: Australia's Craig Alexander and Great Britain's Chrissie Wellington defended their titles today at the Ford Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Vancouver, Canada (October 6, 2009) -The International Triathlon Union (ITU) today announced it has imposed a six-year ban on Mariana Ohata a triathlete from Brazil, after committing an anti-doping rule violation in an out-of-competition doping control test in Iowa, United States on June 26, 2009.

A contest is running over at Surftech for Chris' LairdStand Up Paddle board. Enter to win here: http://surftech.com/seasonal/winAboard.php

Well the weather may be changing but we’re still cranking out solid performances! Might as well get in as many races as possible before the tri season winds down.

(October 5, 2009 -- Los Gatos, CA) ROCKTAPE, the leader in kinesiology tape for athletes, has added two new Triathlon-specific products to their series of Active-Recovery tape.

Monday 28th September – Triathlon Swim Ace Mark Van Akkeren was knocked off his bike while returning from a training ride on Ali’i Drive around 11:30am. The accident happened as Mark was heading south making a left turn into the driveway of his condo.

With all the buzz today about Ironman banning compression socks, I went looking for alternatives. As it happens, an old buddy of mine from MTBR days recently started a company called Rocktape.