From our Breakfast with Bob: Stay Home Edition show, enjoy this interview with Jesse Thomas. In his last triathlon before he retired, Jesse Thomas went sub-eight hours at the 2018 Challenge Roth while also running sub-2 : 45 and finishing third. Who else’s last race before they retired was a bucket list sub-eight? Not a…
From our Breakfast with Bob: Nice, France Edition: Rudy von Berg Rudy burst onto the triathlon scene when he won the legendary 2017 Wildflower Triathlon. How long has he been connected to triathlon? Back in 1998, when he was all of five years old, he remembers watching his father race the Ironman World Championship. WATCH…
Dean Harper is one of the legends of triathlon. He won the first-ever Wildflower Triathlon back in 1983 and was the cover boy for the first-ever edition of Triathlete Magazine. Dean has been the head coach for the Cal Berkeley Bears Triathlon Club for the past six years and we chatted about the importance of…
Sean English was a long time race announcer and endurance athlete when he went in for an MRI in the summer of 2016. What he thought was a little bit of a back issue turned out to be metastatic stage 4 cancer. Sean came on to chat about his life as a skier, triathlete, announcer,…
Jesse Thomas, the six-time Wildflower Champion, had three bucket list goals going into the 2018 Challenge Roth. He wanted to go sub-8 hours, run sub-2:45. and finish on the podium. It’s not often in life that you go three for three! Jesse came on to chat about racing Challenge Roth, and getting the most out…
Rudy von Berg was planning to race St. Anthony’s Triathlon, an Olympic-distance race in Florida, before changing his mind and heading west to go head-to-head with six-time Wildflower Triathlon champion Jesse Thomas. It was a good decision. Rudy von Berg ended up with the biggest win of his career! Subscribe to Babbittville Radio on…
The Wildflower Triathlon Experience Returns May 4 – 6th, 2018 Registration Opens for the Woodstock of Triathlon on September 19th September 12, 2017 – Denver, CO – The much anticipated Wildflower Triathlon Experience returns for 2018 to celebrate its’ 35th anniversary on May 4 – 6, 2018 at Lake San Antonio in Central California. The…
It’s B-A-C-K! After a one year vacation while Lake San Antonio became a lake again, the legendary Wildflower Triathlon will be back in 2018 over the May 4th weekend to celebrate it’s 35th anniversary. Registration opens up at wildflowertriathlon.com on September 19th. Wildflower’s founder Terry Davis came on to chat about one of the world’s…
For Jesse Thomas, his breakthrough race was his surprise win at the Wildflower Triathlon back in 2011. This year, besides planning to be on the starting line in Kona in October for the first time, he is hoping to win his sixth Wildflower title in a row on April 30th. Subscribe to Babbittville Radio…
Justin Metzler did his first triathlon with his dad in Glenview, Illinois when he was only 13 years old. Dad earned bragging rights that day, but now just 22, Justin has come a long way since. He was named USA Triathlon’s Rookie of the Year in 2014 and, after dropping out of Wildflower earlier this…