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"Doing this Ironman is a gift from God," says Jean Dessureault. The scary thing is, he's probably right. Ever been an inch away from losing your life? Dessureault has been. So have France Carignan and Karine Desormeaux, who were acknowledged along with Dessureault in Lake Placid today as the Ford Everyday Heroes. Read the story »
According to Tom Begg, he and his two brothers used to "talk smack at each other on the golf course ... now it's going to be during a 140.6 mile event." Read the story »
"What would Jim MacLaren do?" read the T-shirt. One of MacLaren's friends saw the shirt at a basketball game in Pennsylvania. Who knows if the girl wearing that shirt truly knew how inspiring those words really are. Now, though, it's time for all of us to ask the same question, because it's time for us to step up and help a man who changed the world of Ironman. Heck, who am I trying to kid. This guy changed the world. Read the story »
Here's the good news for any of the men's contenders at the Ford Ironman World Championship this year: you'll only have to take on one Raelert - Andreas - in Kona this October. Here's the bad news: In 2011 they'll be racing Kona together, so watch out everyone else because these two are the real deal. Read the story »
Can you imagine getting yourself in peak shape for the same weekend ever year for five years in a row? That's what Marcel Zamora is trying to do on Sunday - if he is on his game he'll join some pretty elite company in the Ironman world as one of a very few athletes who have won the same Ironman race five years in a row. Read the story »
Chrissie Wellington might have dazzled us all with her incredible win in Kona in 2008 - you know, the one where she stood on the side of the road for 10 minutes waiting for some help getting a flat tire fixed - but her training partner from this winter, Catriona Morrison, has her smoked when it comes to stand-on-the-side-of-the-road-for-a-while-then-come-back-to-win-the-race-stories. Read the story »
The first time I met Marc Surprenant was at the Wilkes-Barre Triathlon in 1986. A week later I was going to be doing my first Ironman, the Bud Light Endurance in Cape Cod and, since he lived in Massachusetts, I asked he and his father Michael if they had any suggestions of where I might stay. Both couldn't have been nicer - they went out of their way to help me out. Read the story »
So, what's your typical training regimen the week before an Ironman? Rest up, do a few workouts, check out the course. Might work for most, but not for Guinness World Record holder Luis Alvarez. What was he up to the week before Ironman South Africa? He was climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. But that's only part of it. This story gets way better. Read the story »
