With just a few days to go until the final ITU World Cup race of the 2014 season in South Korea, the ITU has revealed the 2015 schedule for its World Cup races, with valuable Olympic qualification points up for grabs. Advertisement The 2015 ITU World Cup calendar runs as follows: – March 14-15: Mooloolaba, Australia (sprint distance)– March 21-22: New Plymouth, New Zealand (sprint distance)– May 9-10: Chengdu, China (standard distance)– June 13-14: Huatulco, Mexico (sprint distance)– August 8-9: Tiszaujvaros, Hungary (sprint distance)– September 12-13: Montreal, Canada (sprint distance)– October 3-4: Cozumel, Mexico (sprint distance)– October 17-18: Alanya, Turkey (standard distance)– October 24-25: Tongyeong, South Korea (standard distance) Montreal…

More than 350 triathletes headed to the Hawley Hard army training ground in Hampshire last Sunday for the first edition of the Huntsman Triathlon. Advertisement The races started with an open-water swim in Hawley Lake, followed by a road cycle around the local countryside, finishing with a trail run through Hawley wood and around the lake. In the men’s Olympic race (1500m/47km/10km), Colin Dixon beat nearest rival Robert Fryer by more than 2mins to cross the line in 2:20:38, while 2013 Gauntlet winner Karl Alexander came third. In the women’s race, Rebecca Slack comfortably won with a time of 2:49:40, with Ruth Thom and Marie Coburn taking second and third…

The tough conditions at this year’s Ironman Hawaii were plain to see, with strong sea currents for the swim, gusty crosswinds blowing across the Queen K highway and daytime temperatures peaking above 30°C. Advertisement We asked renowned tri statistician Raymond Britt (founder of RunTri.com) to crunch the numbers for us, and his findings reveal that average finish times hit 11:35hrs this year, up from 11:06hrs in 2013 and 11:32hrs in 2012: The picture was broadly the same across all categories, with only the pro men managing to equal their 2013 average time of 8:50hrs: Of the 21 categories racing last Saturday, ten of them came in below the average time…

The 220 Triathlon Show returns to Sandown Park in Surrey next March, featuring lots of new features including a full fitness testing area, cycle and run test tracks, and an indoor TT so visitors can enter daily challenges.  Advertisement The event’s 14th edition will take place on 27 February to 1 March 2015 and feature a packed schedule of seminars from expert coaches and leading athletes, alongside an exhibition full of all the latest tri kit. Long-standing show favourites like the 10km run, training sessions and cycle sportives will also make an appearance. Andy Healy, Show Director, said: “We’re taking full advantage of 220 Triathlon magazine’s 25 years of experience…

With this year’s London Triathlon still fresh in the memory, the organisers have confirmed that tickets for next year’s event will go on sale tomorrow (Friday 17 October), with four different race types available. Advertisement Commonly known as the world’s largest triathlon, more than 13,000 athletes of all abilities took part this year, including Olympic swimmer Mark Foster, road cyclist Rob Hayles and TV presenter Jennie Falconer. Next year’s event will take place on 8/9 August 2015 and offer four race types: Super Sprint, Sprint, Olympic and Olympic Plus, as well as the option to compete as part of a team relay. It will again form part of the British…

Recently I was lying on a table while a physio friend of mine inflicted the kind of pain on my buttocks you’d normally have to pay serious cash for in Soho. As I lay there squawking like a castrated parrot every time he elbowed me in the hamstrings, he engaged me in small talk about how my season was going, presumably because he was tired of looking at someone who had the same startled expression as a pensioner who’s just heard a noise downstairs. Advertisement I was happy about this conversational diversion because the previous evening, despite having a torn glute, I’d managed to dredge a new PB for my…

It looks like European nations delivered four of the five fastest average finish times at this year’s Ironman World Championship, with Spanish athletes delivering an impressive 10:19hrs average for the 140.6 miles. Advertisement That’s according to the latest round of analysis from tri statistician Raymond Britt, who says that the next four fastest average finish times were taken up by athletes from France, Belgium, Brazil and Switzerland. The UK holds its own with an average of 11:23hrs, despite sending a large contingent:  The RunTri.com founder also looked at the correlation between fast bike and run splits – in other words, how many athletes rode the bike hard and left enough…

Want to experience what it’s like to ride in the pro peloton? Hurt specialists The Sufferfest have teamed up with Team Giant-Shimano to create a new training video that casts you, the viewer, as a rookie plucked from obscurity to join your heroes. Advertisement “When this amateur, this unknown Sufferlandrian came through, beating some of the best riders on the planet and won the Tour of Sufferlandria, the whole world took notice,” said Wade Wallace, editor of CyclingTips.com.au. “So it was no surprise when big teams started calling the Sufferlandrian team director Gunther Von Agony.” The teaser video sees Team Giant-Shimano’s John Degenkolb shouting at the Sufferlandrian recruit as he…

Click:無頁扇 With this year’s Challenge Vichy done and dusted, the organisers have released the 2014 highlights, with a particular focus on the age-group races this year…. Advertisement Around 2,000 athletes took part in central France last August, with defending champion Andrej Vistica (CRO) winning the men’s race and Hungary’s Gabriella Zelinka overtaking 2012 winner Martina Dogana on the run to clinch the women’s race (race report here). Challenge Vichy 2014 L’autre film from les films du grand large on Vimeo. Next year’s race will be held on August 29-30 and entries should open very soon on the event’s website here. Advertisement Did you race Challenge Vichy this year? Let us know…

Despite the promise of “rivers of mud” at the official course recce, this year’s Xterra Worlds in Hawaii delivered blue skies and slightly cooler temperatures for a stellar end to the 2014 off-road season. Advertisement Bermuda’s Flora Duffy won her first Worlds title despite a hard crash on the bike, while Spain’s Ruben Ruzafa claimed his third title in assertive style – full race report here.  Click Here: st kilda saints guernsey 2019 (Images: Xterra) Advertisement Did you race in Maui last weekend? How did you get on? Let us know in the comments!