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Sunday, 05 January 2014 00:10

ED. Here are more great words and images courtesy of Slowtwitch.com and Timothy Carlson.

2013 FAVORITES - The Bike

Florida turned out to be triathlon's speedway as Andrew Starykowicz lowered his Ironman distance bike split record there to within 2:17 of the 4 hour barrier while Yvonne Van Vlerken post the best women's Ironman bike split of 2013 with a 4:35:49 mark. Crashes threatened Camilla Pedersen's life, concussed Meredith Kessler and sidelined Richie Cunningham for a critical part of the season. An improving Mirinda Carfrae finally broke 5 hours on the bike at Kona - a critical element in her race-smashing overall performance. And thankfully thousands of triathletes came back healthy...

from enjoyable races and training rides. PHOTO LINK

2013 FAVORITES - The Swim

This year Diana Nyad made it through the jellyfish gauntlet from Cuba to Key West, Meredith Novack's Channel swim support crew had a close encounter with a tiger shark, Jodie Swallow had a 46:09 swim at Ironman Frankfurt and competitors young and old on five conntinents braved the waters of triathlon's first leg. PHOTO LINK