Katie Zaferes knew very little about the sport of triathlon while she was running cross country, track and the steeple for Syracuse University. But when she did find the sport, she quickly became one of the very best. Katie turned pro in 2013, had a couple of top ten finishes at WTS races in 2014,…
He is a three-time Olympian and a silver medalist, plus a Boston and New York City Marathon Champion. A lot of Meb Keflezighi’s success as a runner and as an sponsored athlete has come after a lot of the experts thought he was in the twilight of his career. Not quite. At the age of…
22-year-old Ben Kanute may have finished 20th at the ITU World Championship in his hometown of Chicago in September, but he certainly didn’t go down without a fight. He was aggressive throughout the bike, took the lead during the run, and impressed everyone with his fearless style of racing. A triathlete since the age of…
The injuries he suffered in a bike crash in 2014 were career threatening to say the least. So how did the great Taylor Phinney deal with having this major detour in his life? Take a listen to our conversation and let me know what you think. This is a young man who is wise way…
At the age of 10, Hunter Kemper raced as an IronKid. 29 years later, he is looking to make history by becoming the first triathlete to make his fifth Olympic team. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on iTunes Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple…
Sarah True just qualified for her second U.S. Olympic Triathlon Team in Rio by finishing fourth in the test race. During our conversation Sarah shared what she learned from the injury that laid her up for nearly a year back in 2010 and from finishing in fourth place only ten seconds off the podium at…
It was the ultimate good news/ bad news scenario. U.S. steeplechaser Evan Jager was in Paris about to win the steeple at the Diamond League event. The good news? He set a new American record with his 8:00.45. The bad news? He tumbled over the very last hurdle and ended up in second. The 2012…
Katie Hursey Zaferes loved running the steeplechase at Syracuse and her first pro season as a triathlete wasn’t until 2013. She is obviously a quick learner. She is now ranked second in the world and in her first four ITU races in 2015 she has finished second three times and third once. Subscribe to…
A special Q&A with Meb Keflezighi was filmed at the Tri Club of San Diego meeting on May 5th. Here is the audio. We call last evening Cinco de Meb & Bob since we were both born on May 5th. Meb takes us through his amazing journey from growing up without running water in Eritrea to…
Bernard Lagat came on to chat about growing up in Kenya, racing against the legendary Hicham El Guerrouj in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, becoming an American citizen and then representing the U.S. in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic games. In 2014 at the age of 39 he broke the American record at the Carlsbad…