Sarah Haskins is a 2008 U.S. Olympian, a Pan American Games Gold Medalist, and a three-time winner of the Race to the Toyota Cup. During our conversation we talked about how she quickly went from doing her first triathlon in 2003 to turning pro a year later and then not only making the Olympic team…
Gary Kobat is the long time trainer-to-the-stars, having worked with Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, David James Elliott, and many others over the years. He just returned from Taiwan where he worked with actors Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver on the set of Martin Scorsese’s film Silence that is due out in the fall.…
Thom Richmond is the main man at the California Triathlon Club and he came on to chat about the Trick or Tri coming up on October 31st at the Santa Fe Recreation Center in Irwindale. Sponsors Subscribe to Newsletter CREDO Tri SFuels Endurance Zone TV Velofix Links Babbittville Radio on Apple Podcasts Babbitt Media…
I was on stage at the Ironman World Championship Carbo Party in October of 1993 interviewing Mark Allen and Germany’s uber-cyclist Jurgen Zack. At that point in time, Allen was the dominant guy in Kona. Once he finally figured out how to knock off six-time champion Dave Scott in 1989, he went on to win…
Daniela Ryf is a two-time Olympian who in 2014 won the Ironman 70.3 Championship and took second in Kona. Undefeated in 2015, she is the woman to beat at Ironman Frankfurt. I chatted with her while she was actually driving the bike course to get a feel for how technical it is. 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…
Frederik Van Lierde, the 2013 Ironman World Champion, is about to race one of the greatest fields ever assembled outside of Kona at this weekend’s Ironman Frankfurt. How versatile is the 36 year old Belgian? So far in 2015 he has won Ironman South Africa by 14 minutes while running a 2:49 marathon, taken third…
Jan Frodeno is the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, and in his first two full Ironman events in 2014 he took third at Ironman Frankfurt and third at the Ironman World Championship. This weekend he returns to Frankfurt to try and knock off, among others, the last two Ironman world Champions, Frederik Van Lierde and Sebastian…
The scene was set. It was November of 1986 and the brand new event was called The Desert Princess Duathlon. Two 10K runs on either side of a tough 62K bike out in Palm Desert, California. The world’s top ranked triathlete, Scott Molina, going head to head against the world’s top ranked duathlete, Kenny Souza.…
What is it about this sport that drives people to get up at 4:00 am, drive over to the start by 5:00 am and then put on a headlamp so you can set up your transition area at 5:30 for an event where your wave won’t jump into the water until 8:10 am? It’s funny.…