“competitiveness is optional”

“Jesus, my butt hurts,” I say to myself as I return the saddle after a short climb. I knew I should’ve given the tri-suit a few extra outings in the run-up to this race. It’s not that I haven’t worn i

Challenge Gdansk, Poland, gets underway on 22 June. Marcel Bolbat (GER) would set a new race record to win in 3:44:03, after closing a 2:30min gap on the run to second-place Louis Woodgate (GRE). Swis

For one morning each April, the birds of Mallorca have to swallow an annual dose of their own medicine. At an ungodly hour, for once it’s them being woken against their will by thousands of freehubs b

The day Morgan Pearson decided to try his hand at triathlon must have been a celebratory one for the US Olympic selectors. A seven-time All-American in track and cross-country at the University of Col

The 125K race starts in Inverie, a remote village on the Knoydart peninsula, accessible only by a boat or two-day hike. There is an extremely lively community-owned pub plus an impressively stocked co

In the closing years of the last millennium, Vuelta a España director Enrique Franco was searching for a spectacle to help his race compete with its more famous French and Italian rivals. He believed