Okay, so who is one of the hottest Ironman 70.3 athletes around right now? Want a hint? He has knocked off Craig Alexander, Terenzo Bozzone, and his coach and top 70.3 guy Tim Reed, he just broke Bevan Docherty’s course record at Vineman, and has won six races in a row. If you don’t know…
Jan Palchikoff is a two-time Olympic rower (1976 and 1980) and the Senior Vice President of Competition and Athlete Experience for the 2015 Special Olympics World Games, which are coming to Los Angeles from July 25 to August 2. There will be 7,000 participants and 3,000 coaches from 170 countries arriving in LA and – no pressure here…
In this segment, Huddle interviews me about getting into endurance sports back when the earth was still cooling in 1978, my first Ironman in 1980, plus the history behind Competitor Magazine, Competitor Radio, the Competitor Awards, and Muddy Buddy. We also chatted about the sale of the Competitor brand to a private equity firm in 2008…
My long-time radio co-host Paul Huddle was finally back in San Diego after spending the past number of months working for Ironman in Europe. During this segment I interview Paul about the growth of the sport of triathlon in Europe, his background as a pro – he took sixth, seventh, and seventh in Kona –…
Austin Murphy from Sports Illustrated, one of our favorite all-time guests, came on with Paul Huddle and me to chat about the Tour de France, among other things. The guy is awesome! Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on…
To me, what The Challenged Athletes Foundation does so well is to provide independence to people facing unbelievable challenges in their lives. I invited three amazing athletes to come in studio to talk about what they have had to overcome along the way. Roderick Sewell, Rudy Garcia-Tolson and Blake Leeper are three athletes with no legs…
After winning 37 XTERRA races in her hall of fame career, Jamie Whitmore was diagnosed with cancer in March of 2008. After surgery she was unable to run, so she reinvented herself as a para-cyclist and is now pushing hard to make it to the Paralympics in Rio in 2016. This is a story of a…
Aussie Tim Van Berkel took an impressive 7th in his Kona debut and ran a 2:50 marathon. He was actually in 4th pace coming out of the Natural Energy Lab before having some cramping issues. With his main goal for 2015 being the Ironman World Championship, and with three really fast Iron-distance wins on his resume (8:07,…
Justin Metzler did his first triathlon with his dad in Glenview, Illinois when he was only 13 years old. Dad earned bragging rights that day, but now just 22, Justin has come a long way since. He was named USA Triathlon’s Rookie of the Year in 2014 and, after dropping out of Wildflower earlier this…
Sarah Haskins is a 2008 U.S. Olympian, a Pan American Games Gold Medalist, and a three-time winner of the Race to the Toyota Cup. During our conversation we talked about how she quickly went from doing her first triathlon in 2003 to turning pro a year later and then not only making the Olympic team…