Remembering Valerie Silk When Valerie Silk’s husband Hank decided to have their Nautilus Fitness Center sponsor the Ironman Triathlon on the island of Oahu, she thought he was certifiably crazy. In 1978 and 1979 the event only had 15 starters and 12 finishers. Even though the event would now be called the Nautilus Triathlon and…
Remembering Jim Howley, 12/12/1960 – 7/29/2025 As we remember Jim, who passed away on July 29th after a battle with cancer, we’re sharing this piece I wrote about Jim in 1996 for my 25 Years of the Ironman Triathlon World Championship coffee table book. It’s May 1996 and the sun is setting behind the green…
How special is this young man? Alex Yee ran 2:11:08 in his first-ever marathon in London, the fastest marathon ever for a pro triathlete, and he has two Olympic gold medals, one Olympic silver and one Olympic bronze. Add in two Commonwealth gold medals, a classic good old fashioned rivalry with 2024 Olympic silver medalist…
John Howard is one of the greatest endurance athletes of all time. He went to three Olympic Games as a cyclist, won the 1981 Ironman World Championship, went over 152 miles per hour on his bike to set a land speed record, and his most recent book: ‘The Black Cyclone: A Hero the World Forgot’…
2018 was the 40th anniversary of the Ironman World Championship, and I took a look back at each of my years at the Hawaii Ironman, starting in 1980 on the island of Oahu. I missed the first two years, 1978 and 1979, but since 1980, I haven’t missed a World Championship. In honor of the…
Enjoy this interview with Kat Matthews from our Breakfast with Bob: 2023 Edition. Recorded August 29th Kat Matthews was training in Texas for her Kona debut after the PTO US Open last Fall when she was hit by a car and had life-threatening injuries including a fractured skull and multiple fractured vertebrae. Less than a…
Enjoy this interview with Jan Frodeno from our Breakfast with Bob from Nice at the Ironman World Championship. Recorded a few days before Jan’s last race. Jan Frodeno joined us from his training base in Andorra before heading into town for the world championship in Nice. As Jan heads into his last world championship as…
After the 2022 Ironman World Championship in Kona we spoke with the women’s and men’s top 3 finishers on our Breakfast with Bob from Kona Championship Edition. Chelsea Sodaro: Champion Chelsea Sodaro finished in 1st place at the 2022 Ironman World Championship in Kona. Here is our post-race conversation: In a race for the ages,…
For our Breakfast with Bob from Nice Edition, we chatted pre-race with the top 5 finishers at the 2023 Ironman World Championship. Sam Laidlow Sam Laidlow finished in 1st place at the Ironman World Championship in Nice. Here is our pre-race conversation: We chatted with the reigning Ironman World Championship silver medalist Sam Laidlow about…
Live Like Jack In the late 1970’s, running events were springing up all over San Diego and it seemed like every weekend I was at a local 10K at Mission Bay, in Coronado, or in Balboa Park chasing this really fast guy with a cool mustache who always wore a red bandana. I didn’t know…