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As the racing season hits its height, our July/August 2013 issue will help you achieve your peak performance in your biggest race.

Ben Allen and Helena Erbenova won the inaugural Xterra Greece at Lake Plastira on Saturday.

South Africa's Dan Hugo and Scotland's Lesley Paterson earned big wins at the 2013 Xterra East Championships in Virginia.

Triathlon’s growth in laid-back Costa Rica is anything but tranquilo.

This summer, at the peak of race season, you’ll want to conquer the swim, and Triathlete magazine’s July issue has everything you’ll need.

Former NFL Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward completed his first half-Ironman at yesterday's Ironman 70.3 Kansas triathlon in Lawrence, Kan.

Scotland's Lesley Paterson continued her domination of off-road triathlon, while South Africa's Dan Hugo finally got an Xtera win.

Starting on Friday Holly Bennett be attending a training camp and race weekend in Costa Rica with coaches Michael and Amanda Lovato.

Our sport has come a long way, and Triathlete has existed to document this evolution ever since the magazine launched in May 1983.

The Elite Triathlon Academy program in Colorado Springs is showing some promise for producing 2016 Olympians.

Holly Bennett writes about venturing back to Costa Rica, a place she traveled in her early 20s.

Celebrate 2013 National Running Day with the TriRock Series.

The Uplace BMC Triathlon Team will be an international extension of the all-Belgian Uplace Pro Triathlon Team.

These triathlon stores offer much more than just swim, bike and run gear.

Ruben Ruzafa (ESP) and Renata Bucher (SUI) won the Xterra European Tour season-opener, the Xterra Spain Championship in Cieza, Murcia.

2012 marked Whit Raymond's 20th and final year announcing the Ironman World Championship.

Crafting the right pep talk for your triathlete involves intuition, understanding, and sometimes, partial nudity.

Norseman Xtreme blueseventy contest winner Jessica Kelley writes about her experience of training for the race.

After some uncertainty following the 2012 Kona race, Craig "Crowie" Alexander now says he still wants to compete at the highest level.

Bob Babbitt shares some of his favorite sound bites from the past three decades.

I met Hong Kong-based Bill and Shannon Ng last month during the Laguna Lang Co Triathlon race week in Vietnam.

Hines Ward gets used to his new Trek Speed Concept, meets his new teammates and attends the Endurance Live Awards.

The United States' Josiah Middaugh and Scotland's Lesley Paterson made it back-to-back wins in the Xterra U.S. Pro Series.

The three-time Wildflower champion and dad-to-be will halt his season to recover from navicular stress fracture surgery.

American Matt Reed has announced that he will be competing alongside Andy Potts in Philadelphia.

The United States' Josiah Middaugh and Scotland's Lesley Paterson stay undefeated in the 2013 Xterra U.S. Pro Series.

Lessons from Jesse Thomas' stumbling journey through the world of sponsorship.

Bob Babbit writes about triathlon age-grouper Mike Bucher, who is the proud father of 14 children.

Xterra heads to Oak Mountain State Park in Pelham, Alabama this Saturday, May 18, for the Xterra Southeast championships.

The Life Time Tri Chicago (formerly the Chicago Triathlon) and Leon’s Tri, have teamed up to form Chicago’s first ever triathlon series.

Why not seize the opportunity to race back-to-back weekends on opposite sides of the earth?

Piampiano’s sights are set on the podium in Kona, and the rookie pro is hardly afraid to aim high.

One week after revealing three new events in Australia, the Challenge Family has announced that Challenge Melbourne has sold out.

More triathlon teams are cropping up all the time, offering a sense of community—and some killer benefits—to age-group athletes.

Response to new swim rules for Ironman triathlons have been mixed.

Active lifestyle meets relaxing retreat in this all-inclusive Florida resort.

Holly Bennett reports on the fifth race of her "Baker's Dozen" challenge.

New Zealand’s Candice Hammond crests a hill several miles into the marathon of the iron-distance Challenge Wanaka.

The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) honored triathlete Gwen Jorgensen as its female Athlete of the Month for April.

The Jay Benson Triathlon, set to take place on the Kirtland Air Force Base, has been cancelled due to heightened security requirements.

As your season hits full swing, make sure you’re taking care of yourself the right way with Triathlete’s June issue

In between training and racing, Canadian pro Trevor Wurtele has some fun of his own making video montages on Youtube.

Challenge Melbourne, Challenge Forster and Challenge Bateman’s Bay will spearhead the Challenge Family’s return to Australia.

Starting in 2014, the Ironman 70.3 World Championship 70.3 triathlon will rotate globally among different regions on an annual basis.

One of the professional athletes racing here in Taitung is 25-year-old Australian Ben Hammond.

After a dramatic 2012 season, pro Andrew Starykowicz has learned to take things one day at a time.

Jessica Kelley will be headed to Norway in a few short months.

I'm here to cover the inaugural Challenge Taiwan (the Challenge Family's first race in Asia) and the plan was to spend a day and a half in the city.

The quiet roads, serene lakes and endless running trails make St. George, Utah, a hot spot for a weekend of training or racing.

3T has announced today that it is voluntarily recalling all Aura Pro Cervélo Custom Edition aerobars for safety reasons.

Olympic triathlon gold medalist Alistair Brownlee posted a 10K time of 28:32:48.

Earning the designation as an "NCAA Emerging Sport" is the next important step for triathlon.

Ben Allen and Renata Bucher capped off two months of pure adventure in the Asia-Pacific Region with exclamation point victories at Xterra Malaysia in Putrajaya.

TriRock Philadelphia is offering participants the unique chance to win free nutrition and gear, and join Andy Potts in a pre-race lunch.

Your look is about to be immortalized in the one, the only, Race Photo.

An Ironman triathlon could be coming to Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The chance to travel to a destination race also opens the door to explore exotic new places, even if at first glance totally unrelated to triathlon.

Next week, collegiate triathlon is expected to take an important milestone in the process for becoming a NCAA sport.

Zone3 wetsuits, a brand that is primarily known in Great Britain, has announced that the product will now be available in the United States.

American professional triathlete Rebeccah Wassner recently compiled a list of those who have announced they're pregnant.

RunNow.com established to encourage donations and running resilience following Boston tragedy.

Hines Ward continues his journey toward becoming a triathlete by learning about nutrition and taking on his first outdoor bike ride.

The fifth class of Hall of Fame inductees included iconic Julie Moss, paratriathlete Jim MacLaren and age-grouper Missy LeStrange.

The quiet hills of Northern California were not short of excitement last weekend at the HITS Triathlon Series in the Napa Valley region.

Organizers of TriRock Philadelphia have announced that the 2013 event will showcase a few new swim initiatives.

The USA Triathlon Hall of Fame will welcome three new members tonight at the Bahia Resort Hotel in San Diego, Calif,

Holly Bennett writes about her most recent "Baker's Dozen" race experience.

The triathlon training camp was designed to help wounded veterans improve both their physical and mental health.

As Susan Lacke discovered, romantic gestures in a two-triathlete relationship are far from conventional.

Some day, you’ll be able to tell your grandkids that you raced triathlon in the era of Chrissie Wellington.

A former member of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” U.S. hockey team trades his sticks and skates for goggles and aerobars.

Triathlete magazine Editor-in-Chief Julia Polloreno writes about the tragic events of April 15's Boston Marathon.

Take a look inside Inside Triathlon’s May/June “Racing Issue,” on newsstands now.

On a true-to-form Xterra course reigning Xterra world champion Lesley Paterson and U.S. champion Josiah Middaugh proved best on the day.

Ho Ren Hua. Hua serves as executive director of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited.

Members of the media were invited to accompany professional triathlete Chris Lieto and a group of athletes and race officials on a visit to nearby Loc Thuy Primary School.

Paterson and Middaugh chat about rivalries, balancing tri with a full life, and the “poetic” allure of off-road triathlon.

Three-time Ironman world champion Craig Alexander has accepted a new role as pro ambassador for Ironman.

Macca chats about his 40th birthday party, his early-season injury, his season plans and this weekend's Laguna Lang Co Triathlon in Vietnam.

Triathlete’s May issue gets you in shape, eating right and feeling fast as the race season picks up.

We caught up with Boecherer about his Oceanside race, his racing strategy and his plans for 2013.

Professional triathlete Heather Gollnick chats about her family's transition to Colorado and her plans to take part in Race Across America.

After 20 years with no triathlons on the Huntington Beach, the site welcomed triathletes back over the weekend.

Despite inconclusive results, the USA Triathlon Fatality Incidents Study provides some comforting insight into recent deaths in the sport.

The first championship-level race of the 2013 Xterra U.S. Points Series will take place this Saturday at Lake Las Vegas in Henderson, Nev.

The Olympic hopeful is on the road to recovery after a bad bike accident last year.

Holly Bennett shares the contents of her carry-on bag ahead of her trip to Asia.

An objection from FINA causes Lance Armstrong to withdraw from a masters swim meet.

Lance Armstrong is back to racing, but this time he’ll be competing against middle-aged swimmers, Austin's Statesman.com reports.