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 from our Breakfast with Bob 2023 Edition. Matthew Marquardt swam at Princeton and when Covid 19 cancelled the 2020 season, he decided to train for the Ironman 70.3 Eagleman Triathlon – where he went 4:05 in his first-ever race. He is now a pro triathlete and is in his second year of…
Enjoy this interview from our Breakfast with Bob 70.3 Oceanside Pre-Race Edition. 2022 was lining up to be Kat Matthews’ year. She’d qualified for Kona, was successful at the Sub-8 Challenge, and finished 2nd at the Ironman World Championship in St George. But everything changed when she was hit by a car on a training…
Andrew Starykowicz is finally back healthy after getting run over by a truck, and is looking forward to heading back to the Ironman World Championship. It makes you wonder. If Cam Wurf, Lionel Sanders, and Sebastian Kienle add another uber cyclist like Andrew to their group this year in Kona, what kind of impact can…
Rob Gray won the Ultraman World Championship in November after taking second in 2016. In this wide-ranging conversation we went from his three weeks of cake nutrition plan, to racing Ironman Texas on minimal training, to taking over 40 minutes off his double marathon time this year at Ultraman. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…
During our Postcards from Boston interview show, we chatted with a few Ironman Champions, accomplished age-group Ironman athletes, and one of the all-time great Ironman legends: Dick Hoyt. There’s a connection between the Ironman and the Boston Marathon….both ultimate endurance events in their categories….even Boston Marathon race director Dave McGillivray can trace his endurance roots…
In his first-ever Ironman distance event at Ironman Texas, Germany’s Patrick Lange won the race and ran a 2:40 marathon. So how do you follow up a performance like that? Well, you go to Kona for the very first time, get off the bike in 23rd place, run 2:39:45 to break Mark Allen’s run record…
He didn’t get into the sport of triathlon until 2010, and he only became a pro because he figured he could get a few comp entries and maybe some housing when he traveled to a race. Joe Skipper from the U.K. wondered after each of the past four seasons if he was wasting his time…
Kurt Madden finished seventh at the Ironman Triathlon World Championship back in 1980. He also finished sixth in October of 1982 and came back again in 1985. He hasn’t been back to race the Ironman Triathlon World Championship since 1985, but he qualified to race this year at Ironman Texas, and at the age of…
She used to ride her mountain bike to track practice, and since her dad spent time lifting weights, Angela Naeth joined him in the weight room. So when the Canadian got into triathlon and won her first race in 2007, it was obvious right from the start that she’d be great on the bike. Her…