How big a factor is Bart Aernouts from Belgium going to be this year in Kona? Let’s start with the fact that he improved from 11th place in 2012 to 8th place in 2013, and last October he had the fastest marathon of the day in Kona with a 2:44:03. The former top duathlete has…
He has finished fourth in Kona , won Ironman Switzerland seven times in a row and, as a tennis player in his youth, Ronnie Schildknecht actually went head-to-head with the great Roger Federer. Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group Babbittville…
Dave Scott is the six-time Ironman World Champion and the first inductee into the Ironman Triathlon Hall of Fame. ‘The Man’ joined us for a Q&A with the Tri Club of San Diego to go through his amazing career. Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV…
Long-time Boston Marathon Race Director Dave McGillivray is coming back to race the Ironman World Championship this October – with a little help from his friends at Specialized – 34 years after he did his first Ironman when the earth was still cooling back on Oahu in 1980. Our interview covered everything including his Boston streak,…
It was one of those very special evenings in front of a packed house of Tri Club of San Diego members at Function Smart in San Diego. The greatest male triathlete in history, six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen, joined me for a wide ranging Q&A that took us from the very beginning of…
Terenzo Bozzone from New Zealand is only 29 years old, has five World Championship Titles and has been racing triathlons for nearly half his life. We chatted about moving from Olympic format to the Ironman and Ironman 70.3, his course record that still stands at Wildflower, training with and learning from two-time Ironman World champion…
David Bailey was one of the top motocross racers in the world when he was paralyzed during an early season race in 1987. He came on to chat about his early days in motocross, his classic race in 1986 against Ricky Johnson in Anaheim Stadium in front of 70,000 people plus the accident, and how…
A few photos from behind the scenes of our breakfast show at the Ironman World Championship, filmed on location from beautiful Huggo’s Kona. Bevan Docherty has won two Olympic medals, Ironman New Zealand, and has a road in Taupo named after him – Docherty Drive – but he has yet to master Ali’i Drive. Maybe…
We discussed Caroline’s change of coaches from Brett Sutton to Chris McCormack, how she fell in love with Hawaii, and her thoughts on defending her title in Roth. “I’m a happy racer and trainer again.” [box style=”media”] Subscribe to our Babbittville YouTube channel here [/box] Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV…
Six-time Ironman World Champion, Mark Allen joined us as our first guest on our newly-launched Babbittville Radio. “The Grip” went through his career for an amazing hour-plus interview. “It was my first Ironman in October of 1982 and I remember catching Dave Scott on the bike on the way back from Hawi. I was really…