Jamie Whitmore won 37 XTERRA titles and one world championship in her amazing career. But her pro career was cut short when a cancerous tumor had to be cut out of her sciatic nerve, which ended her ability to run forever. But the woman known as J-DAWG re-invented herself and took home a gold and…
From our Breakfast with Bob: Nice, France Edition: Ben Kanute Ben is a 2016 Olympian representing the US who is hoping to win Ironman 70.3 Worlds in Nice and make the 2020 US Olympic Team for the mixed relay. In 2017 he led the 70.3 Worlds for most of the day until getting caught by…
Lacey Henderson was diagnosed with a tumor in her knee when she was nine and had her leg amputated above the knee the next year. She was a cheerleader in high school and college, found para track in 2012, and ran the 100 and long jumped in the 2016 Paralympics in Rio. Next up? Hopefully…
Katie Zaferes ran the steeplechase at Syracuse and in 2012 was invited to Colorado Springs to see if she had what it takes to become a professional triathlete. Four years later she represented the United States at the 2016 Olympics and this year she finished up the season ranked second in the world. Katie came…
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…
Billy Lister had a stroke when he was 17 years old in July of 1999. In 2011 he attended a Challenged Athletes Foundation Paratriathlon camp and got back on a bike for the first time since his stroke. That led to Billy becoming a part of the U.S. Paralympic Team and racing three events in…
He raced for the U.S. in the 2016 Olympic Triathlon and is still competing on the ITU circuit. This year the 24 year old has jumped into longer distances and took third at Ironman 70.3 Puerto Rico, fifth at the Ironman 70.3 North American Championship in St. George and then an impressive second at the…
From an evening with the Triathlon Club of San Diego, a Q&A with Olympian Ben Kanute: Ben Kanute is only 24 years old but has been competing in triathlon since the age of eight. This past summer he fulfilled a lifelong dream of racing in the Olympic triathlon in Rio. After a third at Ironman…
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.…
Liz Baker is a sight-impaired triathlete who took fourth at the first-ever Paralympic Paratriathlon. But the real story we discuss takes you deep inside the mind and body of an athlete who had the guts to push herself way past the tipping point while the whole world was watching. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…