For three-time Olympian Tim Don, 2017 was the year that he went went 7:40:23 at Ironman Brazil, the fastest time ever for an Ironman, and also the year where he was hit by a car in Kona three days before the Ironman World Championship and ended up with a fractured C2 vertebrae. Tim is now…
Colonel David Rozelle was the first soldier to lose a limb in battle in Iraq and then return to Iraq to lead his troops with a prosthetic leg. During his journey back from his injury he became a triathlete and finished the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. David was the first Operation Rebound athlete the…
Peter Read Miller is one of the world’s legendary photographers with over 100 Sports Illustrated covers to his credit. Peter has also shot 9 Olympic Games, 14 NBA Finals, and will soon be shooting his 40th Super Bowl. What people might not realize is that Peter also shot the second ever Ironman Triathlon on the…
After Daniela Ryf won her third Ironman Triathlon World Championship title in a row, her TriSutto coaches, Brett Sutton and Robbie Haywood, joined me for a conversation. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group Babbittville…
Cam Wurf rowed in the 2004 Olympics for Australia, still cycles professionally, trains on a regular basis with the 2017 Tour de France and Vuelta Espana champion Chris Froome, broke the bike course record in Kona on October 14th, and is training for his EIGHTH Ironman of the year. On top of all that….the guy…
This was Lucy’s first time racing the Ironman World Championship as a professional, and she told herself to go for it from the start, because she had nothing to lose. Lucy talked about how the conditions in Kona are relentless and it was a gamble to ride as hard as she did. But it paid…
We went through Lionel’s race at the Ironman World Championship, and talked about some of the decisions he made, and what he learned for next time. Asked about his journey from dark days to yesterday’s performance: “It took me 8 years of dreaming, failing, and adversity, but you keep working hard. I told myself yesterday:…
Lois Schwartz and I launched Competitor Magazine in June of 1987. To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of our first edition, we invited some of our closest friends to a get together on June 29th at the amazing Deni and Jeff Jacobs Challenged Athletes Center, home of the Challenged Athletes Foundation. We spent a fun…
2017 Ironman World Championship Boston Marathon Qualifiers From our friends at SportStats…. There were 135 Ironman World Championship finishers who ran qualifying times for the Boston Marathon on October 14th. Which means they are the chosen few who, after someone tells them they qualifed for Boston in Chicago or New York and then asks…
The 2017 Ironman World Champion joined us on the morning after his victory to talk about his race. Watch the interview with Patrick here. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media Group Babbittville Radio on Stitcher Challenged Athletes…