Heather Jackson is one of our all-time favorite guests.The four-time Wildflower champion will be headlining the field at the Herbalife24 Triathlon LA on Sunday June 2nd. To register go to herbalife24tri.la Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group…
Daniela Ryf is the most dominant triathlete on the planet right now. Fresh off her win and new course record at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside, the four-time Ironman World Champion joined us for a Q&A with the always awesome Tri Club of San Diego. Watch the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here. Sponsors…
It was a great pleasure to get to chat with some amazing women and men for our Breakfast with Bob Boston Edition interviews at the Boston Marathon with members of the Hyland’s Healers Marathon Team. These amazing individuals dedicate their professional lives to caring for and healing others. They all share the common bond of…
John McAvoy was serving a double life sentence in a high security prison in England for armed robbery when he saw a TV news piece on a close friend and fellow criminal who had just been killed in the Netherlands during a police chase. At that point he found sport and turned his life around.…
Time for another edition of Talk Story with Bob Babbitt. I’m sharing some of my favorite stories that I’ve collected from my years in the wonderful world of endurance sports. This week I share a story that I wrote in 2005 about Jim MacLaren. I called it Unbreakable Spirit, and it appeared in my book Never…
Hunter Woodhall is the first double below knee amputee to receive an NCAA Division 1 track and field scholarship and the 2016 Paralympic silver and bronze medalist had a great freshman season at Arkansas. But his biggest impact is on the amputee kids who are looking to follow in his footsteps. Sponsors…
She ran the steeplechase and made it to the Olympic Trials in both 2012 and 2016. She won her first marathon in 2:30:41. When Becky Wade earned the Watson Fellowship, she traveled and ran in 22 countries in 12 months, went through 11 pairs of running shoes and ran 3,504 miles! Becky is gearing up…
Triathlon’s Big Four: Dave Scott, Scott Molina, Mark Allen, and Scott Tinley For our October, 1987 issue of Competitor Magazine we featured the four triathletes who dominated triathlon’s grand era of the 80’s, particularly the showcase races in the Fall. Between the the four of them, they had won seven Ironman World Championships, five Nice…
One of America’s premiere triathletes, Ben Hoffman has gone from racing on the collegiate level at the University of Montana at Missoula to racing head-to-head with the best triathletes in the world. Ben has six Ironman wins in his career plus a ninth, fourth, and second place at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.…
Time for another edition of Talk Story with Bob Babbitt. I’m sharing some of my favorite stories that I’ve collected from my years in the wonderful world of endurance sports.This week I share a story about 6-time Ironman World Champion Dave Scott. …..I was standing behind Dave Scott as he signed autographs and chatted with his…