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Ever thought you had a tough time training? Forget it. I can almost guarantee that you've had it easy compared to Aaron Dewees, seen here on the right. Had a tough time dealing with a tough winter? Luxury. The roads been a bit rough? Piece of cake. The pool been a bit colder than you'd like? Hah! Read the story »
Can you imagine putting together a list of the world's 25 toughest athletes and putting a golfer ahead of an Ironman champion? OK, the golfer is Tiger Woods, who is possibly one of the greatest athletes ever seen on this planet ... but tougher than Chrissie Wellington (tenth on the list to Tiger's first) and Chris McCormack (not even included)? Read the story »
Joe Cook is an idiot. / The reason I know this is because I've spoken with him. He sounded intelligent, reasonable, level-headed...but that's all deceptive and I wasn't fooled for a minute. Read the story »
If you haven't read one of Lee Gruenfeld's books, you really need to. Gruenfeld, of course, is best known in the Ironman world as Mr. Cherie Gruenfeld, husband and chief support crew to the Ironman World Champion. Avid Ironman.com fans will also know him as the hilarious columnist here on Ironman.com. The rest of the world knows him, though, as a best selling author. Read the story »
So when did all this head-to-head racing start? Don't today's top pros know that they're not supposed to compete in the same race until October or November? When was the last time three world champions got together to pummel each other at an early season Ironman 70.3 event? Nope, I can't remember, either. Read the story »
On Monday we posted a story about Kristy Gough, who was killed tragically while riding her bike last weekend. Here's a note I received from Cathy Morgan as a follow up to that: Read the story »
For four straight years during high school I managed to win a couple of events. The annual school cross country race and another, completely unofficial, but much more fun event held every year - the race up to the top of Mount Orford, which the rest of the school did as a hike and a few of us crazies did as a race every year. Read the story »
