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Online video magazine host Brian Rose teams up with punk singer John Joseph for an unflinching look at triathlon’s effect on two troubled pasts.

Help guide the future of Triathlete and you could win valuable prizes.

There’s no rule that says swimming, biking, and running have to make us selfish.

You give and you get when you race for a charity. 

She could have stayed on the podium. Instead, she decided to pull others up there.

Get ready for island action in this comprehensive guide to the Ironman World Championship in Kona and the XTERRA World Championship on Maui.

It was a battle of Olympic medalists on Sunday in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.

Daniela Ryf says she was pushed to be her very best by up-and-coming star Lucy Charles.

Enter for a chance to win a complimentary spot on a VIP Relay team with professional triathletes Michellie Jones or Cam Wurf, and Challenged Athletes.

Triathlon’s biggest race on the Big Island is coming up! Get the inside scoop on all the top contenders of the Ironman World Championship in our championship issue.

The secret sauce to racing successfully sometimes means humbling yourself and your expectations.

Wish a pro triathlete would bike with you on your home turf? It’s happening.

Motorcycle scares! Charging athletes! Tackled by the British Army!

How you can get involved in the San Diego Triathlon Challenge.

"Triathlon, I must say this: I love you, but you’re making it hard to stay in this relationship."

Epic landscapes? Check. Killer terrain? Check. Way too cold to tri in the winter? Yep.

Training, work, family. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, says Michelle Andres.

Injured? Don't crawl in the “this is the end of exercising hole" and give up.

As the largest all-women triathlon in the region, the race brought together participants ages 11 to 79-plus with varying levels of experience, diverse backgrounds, and powerful stories.

Outspoken has announced 11-time Ironman champion Meredith Kessler as the keynote speaker for its first event, this Nov. 30 - Dec. 2 in Tempe, Ariz.

A cheat sheet for taking better adventure pics. Your Insta following will thank you.

These children’s books will inspire a love of swim, bike, and run.

Thirty-four-year-old mother of three Ashley Horner is taking on the challenge in support of Haitian orphans.

Daniela Ryf and Javier Gomez will look to defend their titles—but they'll face tough competition from former champions and new faces.

Leave it to the “Human Crash Test Dummy” to create and tackle one of the world’s toughest triathlons.

Though Mike Plant might not be as familiar to tri fans as the “big four” without him, the world may have never known their names.

How this urban town best known for triple-digit temperatures and a massive university became a modern multisport mecca.

"Be chill, no pushing, or shoving," said the race director. "Don't be all triathlete about this."

This deep-discount sale features awesome swim, bike, and run gear.

Ryf led 70.3 Gydnia led from wire to wire to record the fastest 70.3 ever by a female.

This triathlete used a traumatic experience to transform her life.

We've partnered with Major League Triathlon to live stream the second race of its third season.

Kona bike-course record holder Cam Wurf talks Thomas, Team Sky, doping, and riding really fast.

This issue of Triathlete magazine showcases 33 people, companies, and organizations changing the world through triathlon.

See where your city ranks in the safest cities for cycling in the USA.

Can everyone tell by looking at you that you’re a triathlete? Or are you more low-key? Take this quiz to find out!

Up the fun factor of your next traincation by combining history, sightseeing, and the core-blasting workout that is belly laughing.

Strava data is a closely-guarded secret. Except for this stuff.

Reporter A.C. Shilton embedded with the North Carolina State University club tri team.

Mauricio Mendez from Mexico and Lesley Paterson from Scotland captured the 10th annual XTERRA Beaver Creek off-road triathlon elite titles.

Peter Shankman wears many hats. Presenting his strategies for making them all fit.

Buddies ditching your race? No problem. Here’s how to thrive when you’re tri-ing on your own.

We used a random number generator to pick a winner from over 14,000 entries.

The bubbly Dane has her sights set on Kona once more and hopes to be smiling all the way to the podium in 2018.

At the end of the day it's your fitness and it's up to you what you want to do with it, writes Meredith Atwood.

Spain’s Ruben Ruzafa and Great Britain’s Lesley Paterson claimed the gold medal and world champion status with commanding performances.

Julie Bockey has been on more adventures in her first 43 years than most people will experience in a lifetime.

Each of these photos stirred something deep down that made us fall in love with triathlon all over again.

Bozzone collided with a truck during a bike ride on Tuesday afternoon in Kumeu, Auckland.

Canyon is inching ever closer to dethroning Cervélo at Europe’s biggest race.

For discerning triathletes who want to sacrifice nothing—including their hard-earned cash.

The Canadian is blazing her own trail of success—and it doesn't travel through Kona.

Great Britain's Tim Don completed his first triathlon—and he did it in style.

Crowley dishes on the new Kona qualification system, her predictions for October, and her super-Aussie taste in music.

Dr. Stacy Sims, Rachel Joyce, Kathryn Bertine, and Anne Hed to headline November 30th-December 2nd summit.

For Marcus Cook, a weight loss challenge led to a lifelong friendship rooted in tri.

It's time to get your watermelon on.

There's something scary about letting your identity get too wrapped up in the sport.

Ironman today announced the finalists for the 2020 Ironman 70.3 World Championship triathlon.

A Reddit thread on tri-debt is blowing up. What would you do if your spouse was spending more on triathlon than they make?

After years of filming, traveling, editing, and promoting, the full-length documentary film is finally screening.

"One team wants me to pay to be on it. Is it worth it?" Professor Multisport gives a semi-scientific answer.

We dedicated this issue to comedy because, well, triathlon is funny.

Think wrangling your coworkers all day before training is hard? Imagine wrangling 400 sheep.

Susan Grant Legacki looks inside the Egyptian triathlon revolution—and the sport’s thorny history in the Middle East.

Traffic signs in Raleigh have stirred up controversy ahead of this weekend's Ironman 70.3 Raleigh event.

It's time to get back to the adventurous roots of multisport.

We asked dozens of globetrotting pros, prolific racers, and RDs stationed around the globe for their all-time favorite places to swim, bike, and run.

Thinking about getting some ink to commemorate your accomplishments in the sport? Here is some advice.

Tim Don’s sponsor On Running teamed up with Emmy-award-winning director Andrew Hinton to create a must-see 28-minute film about overcoming adversity called The Man With the Halo.

Though much fanfare surrounds the jaw-dropping speed and unfathomable strength found in the professional fields, the age-groupers are the ones who quietly inspire.

At age 20, she was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Then, at 35, doctors discovered breast cancer.

“It was the most amazing moment,” Laws says of her 2014 finish at Ironman Lake Placid. “It’s my favorite triathlon moment to date.”

When Melissa Thoen was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 11, doctors said most exercise was impossible.

Each day, 30 year-old Mia Cipperoni experiences severe vertigo, disorientation, loss of sensation, and extreme fatigue.

“Triathlon is considered by many people a solo and somewhat selfish sport, but I’ve found it's anything but that."

"It was either fitness or board games, and I have already lost enough friends playing board games.”

For 26 year-old Alyssa Clay, there are no roadblocks merely speedbumps.

Today, almost 10 years to the day he tried to end his life, triathlon has given Heisler a way speak of his future.

The new world of endurance VR has its origins firmly planted in triathlon.

Sometimes those "big workout days" are better spent in another arena of our lives.

Josiah Middaugh and Lesley Paterson captured the 13th annual XTERRA Oak Mountain off-road triathlon elite titles

Stacy DeLeon is using triathlon to advocate for her son—and everyone with Down syndrome.

Looking for the ultimate summer triathlon adventure that’s super easy on the pocketbook?

This is the story, in photos and details, of how a small ‘60s locker room and its surrounding fields became a modern monument.

American Eric Lagerstrom shares how he makes the unconventional life of a professional triathlete work.

There are some extraordinary places where you can lay down a brick workout in the shadow of a gorgeous pile of Gothic bricks.

Is there a magic number of races completed where you no longer need the support of a Sherpa?

This Brazilian couple, clad in bride-and-groom tri kits, wed at the finish line of Challenge Cerrado on April 22.

Kieran McPherson and Sabrina Gobbo captured the 14th annual XTERRA Brazil elite titles on the island of Ilhabela.