From Competitor Magazine, November 1987 by Bob Babbitt Ironman Commandment Number One: Thou shalt never take thine eyes off the road. It was mere seconds since the end of the swim. Dave Scott was looking down, trying to get the bike shoe on his right foot to stay on the pedal. Mark Allen,…
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…
Every time I look at this one particular image, it makes me laugh. Technology, money, media, and the masses were coming fast, but the classic image of Cowman on the bike wearing his miniature cow horns in the same frame as the eventual champion never gets old. Even 33 years later, it continues to…
Enjoy the audio from our Breakfast with Bob interview with Andrew Talansky filmed in Kona during Ironman race week. Andrew Talansky raced as a professional cyclist, after growing up as a runner and swimmer. Now, after deciding to retire from the grind of Tour racing, he’s got his sights set on doing the Ironman World…
Minda Dentler was born in India and was paralyzed from the hips down from polio. She ended up in an orphanage, was adopted by a family from Spokane, Washington and spent her life with her legs in braces and using crutches. After moving to New York City, she was introduced to wheelchair racing and eventually…
Coming off his 3rd place finish and 2:39:45 record-breaking marathon at the 2016 Ironman World Championship, Patrick Lange of Germany, was looking forward to a great 2017 season. But for three months in 2017 he was so tired he could barely train. When doctors finally figured out his problem, he had very little time to…
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…
Chrissie Wellington retired from the sport of triathlon after going undefeated at the Ironman distance while recording the fastest time ever for 140.6 miles for women at Challenge Roth -8:18 with a 2:44 marathon- while also winning four Ironman World Championship titles. It was just announced that Chrissie will be in Kona in October to…
Because these go to 11….. Even though I left Competitor in 2014, I will always treasure the brand that I am proud to have created and nurtured with my partner Lois Schwartz. I have kept copies of every issue we produced, from our first issue in June of 1987, through 2012. In my mind, being…
Mike Levine was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on July 1, 2015. He was told that 90% of people who receive that diagnosis live 3-12 months, 5% live two years, and no one makes it to three years. After removing a half a dozen organs from his body plus 25 lymph nodes, Mike was connected with…