Regas Woods is a double above-knee amputee track star who took home a gold medal in the long jump and a silver medal at 100 meters at the 2015 Pan Am Games and ran the 200 and long jumped in Rio at the 2016 Paralympic Games. He is also disappointed that single above-knee amputees have…
From our Classics Interview Series: Enjoy this interview with Steve Larsen from the summer of 2008 Steve Larsen did it all as an athlete. He grew up in Davis, California where local boy Dave Scott was his hero. Greg LeMond set him up on his bike, and he began bike racing at the age of…
Chrissie Wellington retired from the sport of triathlon after going undefeated at the Ironman distance while recording the fastest time ever for 140.6 miles for women at Challenge Roth -8:18 with a 2:44 marathon- while also winning four Ironman World Championship titles. It was just announced that Chrissie will be in Kona in October to…
Dr. Cory Foulk lives on the Big Island, and a number of years ago he thought that the Ironman was getting a tad too expensive and people were losing site of the fact that it’s not about the cost of the bike you ride, it’s about the toughness of the person riding that bike. So…
2017 has been a breakout year for 24 year old Ironman 70.3 World Championship Silver Medalist Ben Kanute. Coach Jim Vance joined me for a chat about working with Ben Kanute, and helping him make the jump up to the 70.3 distance from ITU racing. We also chatted about Jim’s run data observations at Chattanooga…
Steve Tomboni has been putting on races for 25 years. For the past six, he has been growing the Viking Dash Trail Run Series throughout the U.S. and Canada. The next one coming up is October 28 in Tejon Ranch. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri UCAN Endurance …
Phil Keoghan is best known for the Amazing Race, but he is also a huge cycling fan, and accomplished cyclist. Phil joined me to chat about LE RIDE. The documentary follows Phil and his friend Ben Cornell as they attempt to recreate the original route of the 1928 Tour de France. Averaging 240 kilometres a…
From our Classics Interview Series: A short, but memorable interview with Pat Tillman. Pat Tillman gave up a lucrative career in the NFL to fight and die for his country in Afghanistan. During every off-season of his pro football career, Tillman would set a goal outside of football and go for it. One year he…
He raced for the U.S. in the 2016 Olympic Triathlon and is still competing on the ITU circuit. This year the 24 year old has jumped into longer distances and took third at Ironman 70.3 Puerto Rico, fifth at the Ironman 70.3 North American Championship in St. George and then an impressive second at the…
Kaisa Sali had watched the Ironman World Championship on TV in the early 1990s and, at the age of 12, told her dad she wanted to ride the length of the Ironman bike course, 180k, on her tiny pink mountain bike. They finished at grandma’s house and, when little Kaisa found out they had only…