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…
After swimming 100 kilometers a week as a 2012 Olympic hopeful, Lucy Charles made the move to long distance triathlon and, at the age of 24, has already proven that she can race with the very best. Last year she took second in Kona and pushed now three-time champion Daniela Ryf during the bike ride.…
By Bob Babbitt Mark Allen came to Kona five times trying to win the Ironman and to beat Dave Scott. On his sixth attempt it finally happened. I am sitting in the back seat of a Ford Mustang convertible on the Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway in the middle of the afternoon on Saturday October 14,…