Karen Smyers was still racing as a professional triathlete at the age of 50. The US captain for the Collins Cup, Ironman World Champion, and multiple-time ITU World Champion came on to chat about her spectacular career! Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on…
From our Breakfast with Bob: Nice, France Edition: Lauren Parker Lauren Parker joined us at our Challenged Athletes Foundation San Diego Triathlon Challenge in October of 2017 after being paralyzed in April of that year while training for her first Ironman as a pro. After being introduced to CAF, she received a handcycle from CAF…
From our Breakfast with Bob: Nice, France Edition: Javier Gomez How many people have won an ITU World Championship, an Ironman 70.3 World Championship, the XTERRA World Championship, plus an Olympic Silver Medal? Javier Gomez just might be the only person in that very elite club! WATCH the interview on the Babbittville YouTube channel here.…
Karen Smyers is one of the few triathletes in history to win both the ITU World Championship at the Olympic distance and win the Ironman World Championship. Karen joined us in Boston to talk about her incredible career. She took us through her memorable Ironman World Championship win in 1995. Karen also shared some great…
She was finishing up her CPA at the University of Wisconsin and was ready to start her new job at Ernst and Young. But that’s when her life changed forever. During her collegiate days Gwen Jorgensen had been on the swim team for the first few years and then finished by running on the track team.…
In her hall of fame career, Michellie Jones won two ITU World Championships, an Olympic silver medal, the first ever XTERRA World Championship and the 2006 Ironman World Championship. Now she is racing with hearing and vision impaired triathlete Katie Kelly to, hopefully, bring home a Paralympic medal from Rio in 2016. Subscribe to…
Caroline Steffen is a two-time winner of Ironman Frankfurt, a two-time second place finisher in Kona and a two-time ITU World Champion. As a former professional bike racer, she loves the challenge of the Ironman Frankfurt course and feels she is ready to handle the heat of race day. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes…