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The 2017 Ironman World Championships in Pictures

For more amazing images by Wagner Araújo check out his website waguinhoa.com.br Advertisement   Hi everyone, here’s @wags.photo and I’m taking over 220 Triathlon account during the Kona race week! In this shot I went inside a Lava Tube, a natural conduit formed by flowing lava which moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow. Tubes means the lava flow has ceased and the rock has cooled and left a long cave. Unique shot…

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Review: Occidental Lanzarote Mar Hotel training facilities

With the evenings getting darker and the lakes getting chiller, this is the time most of us start thinking about heading out to train somewhere a little warmer. Advertisement With this in mind, we snapped up the opportunity earlier in the year to check out the newly-built 50m competition pool and fitness facilities at the Occidental Lanzarote Mar hotel. Situated just outside the holiday resort Costa Teguise, on the east coast, the hotel has long…

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Entries now open for toughest open-water endurance race

Entries are now open for The open water endurance swimming race Red Bull Neptune Steps  at Maryhill Locks in Glasgow. Advertisement This adventurous race combines a 420 metre sprint swim in icy-cold water with eight canal gates to clamber over (a total climb of 18 metres). Each canal gate features a different obstacle to climb up – including cargo net, ropes, wood ladder, rope ladders and a climbing wall.  In March this year, Glasgow played host to…

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The UK’s toughest triathlon? Deca UK in pictures

38km of swimming. 1,800km of biking. 422km of running. Over 10 days. No matter how many times we read them, the numbers of Deca UK continue to astound. Advertisement Launched by Brutal Events’ Claire Smith last year (whose Brutal is one of the toughest irons in the world) and making its debut in October 2017, the inaugural race took over Eton’s Dorney Lake – usually a beginner-triathlon honeypot – and attracted some of the most…

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Age groupers to get drug tested in Glasgow

Taking place 9-11 August, the European Championships features the Elite Standard Distance, Elite Mixed Relay and age-group ETU Sprint Distance Triathlon European Championships, and qualified athletes are encouraged to fully understand the process and implications of random drug testing. It is advised they access free Clean Sport training webinars in the lead up to the championships. Advertisement Age-group drug testing has already been taking place at international events, but this will be the first time…

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Duffy wins fourth world Xterra title in a row

With this win, Duffy joins Xterra Hall of Famer Conrad Stoltz as the only other elite to win four titles, and is the only elite to win four straight. Advertisement More than 800 endurance athletes – including six physically challenged athletes – from 52 countries competed in the event, which started with a one-mile rough water swim at D.T. Fleming Beach, followed by a 20-mile mountain bike ride that traversed the West Maui Mountains, and…

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Chrissie Wellington to give talk in Bristol

To celebrate the launch of her new book To The Finish Line, four time Ironman World Champ Chrissie Wellington is giving a talk in Bristol on Monday 27 November. Advertisement Written in conjunction with 220, the book offers advice on everything, from planning your race season and fitting triathlon training into everyday life, to race nutrition strategies and coping with pre-race nerves, to exercising during pregnancy and how to budget for a triathlon. Drawing on…

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Elbaman to return in 2018

After disastrous weather cancelled the thirteenth edition of the event in 2017, the future of the Elbaman triathlon in Italy looked in doubt. Advertisement But the organisers of the independent Italian race have today confirmed that the race will return in 2018, with both the full iron-distance Elbaman and Elbaman73 – plus relay options – being hosted in the Italian island of Elba on 30 September 2018. Here’s why we named Elbaman one of the best…

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Coed y Brenin Duathlon makes a splash

Heavy rain. Blazing sunshine. Single digit temperatures. Plenty of mud and hills. And more hills. The debut Odlo Coed y Brenin Trail Duathlon from Always Aim High kicked-off in North Wales today in true Snowdonian style, with over 250 duathletes attempting either the full or sprint-distance run/bike/run races. Advertisement Consisting of a 28km mountain bike course along the famous ‘Tarw Du’ section, and sandwiched by a 9km and 5km trail/fell run with some tough technical…

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