Scott Molina was nicknamed ‘The Terminator’ and during his triathlon career he won 104 races including 50 USTS events, two World’s Toughest titles, plus a huge win at the 1988 Ironman Triathlon World Championship. We chatted about his long training partners and fellow legends Mark Allen and Scott Tinley, the athlete who would displace him…
It’s one thing to run a fast marathon at the end of an Ironman. But it becomes extra special when you have to run that fast to actually win the race. Mirinda Carfrae was 14:32 back off the bike and in eighth place at the 2014 Ironman World Championship when she uncorked a course record…
The year was 1986, and for some reason I felt it was important to focus on my swimming for that year’s Ironman. I swam pretty much every single day that summer and ended up having my best swim ever in Kona, something in the 1:02 range. Great. So I took a few minutes off…
Michelle Vesterby from Denmark has only been racing long course since 2011. Besides winning Ironman Lanzarote, she has gone 12th, 8th and 14th in her first three races in Kona. With the help and support of her coach, two-time Ironman World Champion Luc Van Lierde, and her husband – and bike bitch – Claus, the…
Daniela Ryf from Switzerland has been on a major roll. She finished up 2014 by winning the Ironman 70.3 World Championship and taking second in Kona. To start off 2015 she dominated a deep field at Challenge Dubai. We chatted with her a few days before the Dubai race. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…
The Promise While he was in high school, Dustin Brady raced both mountain and road bikes. In 1996 he won the California Junior State Championship on the trails and his division at the Redlands Road Race. After a number of challenging training days, he could just tell that his body wasn’t right. “It’s not good…
Classics Interview Series: Chrissie Wellington, October 2011 It was one week after what turned out to be the last race -and win- of her amazing career. Chrissie Wellington never lost an Iron distance event, winning 13 times in a row. Her fourth win in Kona at the Ironman World Championship in 2011, coming less than two…
Classics Interview Series: Linda Sweeney Linda Sweeney flew over to Kona to do the fourth ever Ironman World Championship back in 1981. She ended up winning the race even though she rode a bike with a basket on the front that carried a cassette player blasting tunes for her throughout the bike ride. By the…
Valerie Silk was never an athlete and couldn’t understand why her husband at the time wanted to connect their business, the Nautilus Fitness Center, to an obscure event that only had 15 people entered. The year was 1978, the event was called the Ironman, and Valerie Silk was the person who would guide what would…
Tim DeBoom is the last American to win the Ironman World Championship, which he did in both 2001 and 2002. We chatted about both training with and racing against Peter Reid, running down Chris McCormack at the 2002 race in Kona, and the uncertainty surrounding the 2001 race since it was only a month after…