Saturday Triathlon News and Notes

Tour of the Sriracha Factory!

Top 10 Worst Cycling Tips.

I do the backpedaling on downhills (sometimes) and have done a three-hour ride with no fuel.  I had to go to the doctor after that one.  I was seeing spots from dehydration.  Turns out, you drink a lot of water with your fuel.

Friday Tri News and Notes

Train on a virtual mountain bike!

For Jordan Rapp's annual bike giveaway, he's teaming up with his new bike sponsor to give away a Dimond.

Electric shocking not enough for you? Tough Mudder to Use 'Tear Gas' in Newly Designed Obstacle Courses - Downtown Brooklyn - DNAinfo.com New York

Found - a full review of a totally different type of bike pedals, the TriRig Mercury.

Pro Tim Don does a mostly indoor Ironman in downtown Vegas to promote the new Polar watches.

ZenTri 585 - Dimond Bikes

The gang from Dimond Bikes joins us to talk about how these beautiful machines are made, where the idea came from, and what is in their future.  It is an in-depth review of all aspects of the materials and business, so you don't want to miss out!

In The Training Log, I take you with me as Kai and I get nearly hit by a falling tree while trail running, and bring you tons of training and fueling tips.  Enjoy!

Wednesday Tri News and Notes

In a continuation of Specialized dropping pros like it is allergic to talent, Jan Frodeno signs with Canyon bikes.

Time to let the cat out the bag: I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining Canyon bikes for 2015 and beyond! Their team is super passionate about building great bikes and to be honest, it surprised me just how great I found them to be. Signing off to go for a ride- see you out there... 🎥 @koruptvision

A video posted by Jan Frodeno (@janfrodeno) on Jan 1, 2015 at 2:00am PST

And Slowtwitch did a review of "dumb" trainers. Honestly, don't ask ask your trainer to try to be smart - it doesn't lead to good things.

Tuesday Tri News and Notes

"Dimond adds influential triathletes Rapp & Thomas to help take their triathlon superbike even further into the future.

DES MOINES, IA Dimond Bikes, operating as part of Rüster Sports, LLC is pleased to announce a five year partnership with five-time Ironman Champion and ITU Long Distance World Champion, Jordan Rapp as well as four-time Wildflower Champion and two-time Ironman 70.3 Champion, Jesse Thomas."

Amazing headphones actually make it to reality at CES.

More about them here with a cool video.

I also snagged a screengrab of how many hours Helle Frederiksen works out in a week. Keep in mind most of that is at an easy pace, not hard.

(Hi-tech screengrab software, I know.)

Lastly, a great trainer video of women's crit racing. It gets really intense!