In search for the holy grail of sports performance, Irish National Team ITU member, Gavin Noble (Dublin Triathlon Champion this past weekend) cranks out the Watts in the lab. This kind of lab testing will give Gav and his coach all kinds of numbers they can play with in training. Tests will be repeated often, [...]

My name is Will Clarke, I am 24 years old and a professional athlete racing on the ITU circuit.  I live in Loughborough in England, and raised in Cambridge but not posh!
My season so far has been very consistent and pretty strong!  Slowly getting better with every result.  The World Championships Series this year has [...]

Gav is the one on the left.
Over the next 2 weeks or so I will post a series of interviews with my TriathlonTeam.org teammates.: “10 Questions with ….”
Gavin replied 1st, so I’ll post them in the order received.
For starters, and the reader’s benefit, write a short paragraph about yourself:
I love drafting. I’m just going to [...]

Photos by Bob Woodward
While training in Bend, OR recently, a few friends got together to shoot a few pics:

My own customization for the muddy ski slopes at XTERRA Vermont
From Triathlon Product Reviews
Sunday, April 26, 2009

Avia Avi Stoltz Xterra Racing Shoe
After the traction disaster that my wife and I both suffered during the Granite Bay Duathlon, we went looking for a shoe with better traction that qualified as a racer. We both have significantly [...]

Amber Monforte - record setter new
Written by: Timothy Carlson
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009
Proving that a demanding job doesn’t have to stand in the way of remarkable athletic accomplishment, full-time nurse and Xterra veteran Amber Monforte decided to try her first three-day, 320-mile, swim-bike run Ultraman this August and walked away with the Ultraman Canada women’s [...]

Rich Cruse and Nikola

Costume by Rich Cruse

“When the three-day, 520-kilometer test of swim-bike-run endurance was over, Xterra regular Monforte made the biggest impact. Monforte finished fourth overall including the men in a time of 25:36:49. She out-paced runner-up Barbi Brochu, who set a fastest swim time of 2:42:41, by 1:39:11. Monforte’s record time beat Tracy Preston’s Ultraman Canada women’s record of [...]

We are taking a short vacation and taking the scenic route home via Olympic park in Washington,  ( I forgot to pack the tent, so we slept outside) and down the Washington and Oregon coasts.
We cant do much site seeing as Amber is so sore from her race, she can barely walk…

Read about Amber’s Ultraman [...]

Amber with our friend and crew Graham Bartlett getting ready for the swim.
Amber had an amazing day. I paddled the support boat next to her and knew right from the start she was flying. Swimming had always been her Achilles heel, but today her stroke was perfect with a snappy turnover. Was fun to watch. [...]

Amber warming up for Ultraman Canada. Its scorching here- around 100F. About 36C. She is feeling good and ready to go. 3 days of racing.
Day 1: 10km swim, 90Mi swim
Day 2:180 mi bike
Day 3: 54mi run.
Total: 10km swim, 418km bike, 84km run
Here is how the cattle guard should be ridden. On the smooth, narrow strip: [...]