Editor’s Note: I wrote this about David Bailey as part of our pre-race coverage of the 2009 Ironman World Championship It was the day after the 2008 Ironman World Championship. David Bailey, who had been one of the best motocross athletes on the planet before he was paralyzed, was barreling down the Queen Ka’ahumanu…
When she was a little girl, Natascha Badmann was always the last kid picked when it was time to play. She only got into working out when she was in her 20s as a way to lose a few pounds. During her journey, the woman from Switzerland went from losing a few pounds to winning…
When he was 13, Sean Swarner was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease and eventually Askin’s Sarcoma as well. How bad did it get? He was in a medically induced coma for nearly a year and in 1990 he was given two weeks to live. Since then Sean has climbed Everest, trekked to the north and south…
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…
Sarah True is a two-time Olympian who quickly transitioned to the Ironman 70.3 distance. Her fourth place at the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship was foreshadowing for her epic race a few weeks ago at Ironman Frankfurt. It was her first full marathon and her first full Ironman but she proved that she certainly was…
Tim Don has come back from a broken neck to run 2:49 at the Boston Marathon and to win Ironman 70.3 Costa Rica. His goal of going from a Halo to Hawaii is almost complete. Next up? Ironman Hamburg! Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville…
Look what I found! I just discovered two interviews that I had totally forgotten about. An interview with Luc Van Lierde recorded a few hours after he shocked the world by winning the 1996 Ironman World Championship and setting a new course record in his first-ever Ironman distance race. He ran 2:41 in his first-ever marathon and…
Look what I found! I just discovered two interviews that I had totally forgotten about. An interview with six-time Ironman World Champion Dave Scott recorded a few hours after the 1996 Ironman World Championship where he came off the bike in 25th place before putting together the second-fastest marathon of the day – 2:45 – and…
From 30 Years of the Ironman World Championship, by Bob Babbitt The room is hospital white, the floor polished squares of institutional linoleum. Sterile. Unforgiving. The smell of despair hangs in the air like a soggy cloth coat on a withered old man. This is no place for a little girl. Barely five years old,…
It was July 6, 2004, one month after Brian Boyle had graduated from high school. On his way home from swim practice, a speeding truck slammed into the side of Brian’s car and the impact shattered his ribs and pelvis and caused his heart to be thrown across his chest. He was dead on arrival…