“Words, words, words.” ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet Words matter. While we all may spew thousands of words a day and think of many of those words as throwaways, the words we use have meaning. In some cases, lots of meaning. When we wrote about the Professional Triathlon Union (“PTU”) last week, we Read more…
Note: Ryan Heisler and I collaborated on this piece. When reading please remember this is a general overview of how United States labor laws would likely apply to the Professional Triathlon Union. Without more specific information it is impossible to evaluate all of the potential implications. — KBG Yesterday morning (7/29), the Professional Read more…
As many of you know I raced Challenge Atlantic City last weekend. I also participated (and crashed) in the race in 2014 and after the race I wrote a blog about my thoughts on how the race could improve. I figured now is the time for the one year check Read more…
Just over one year ago my Challenge Atlantic City ended in the hospital rather than at the finish line. Since that crash there’s been a bit of tumult in my life — both related and unrelated to the crash itself. Despite a less than perfect year, I really wanted to go Read more…
Last week Rev 3 and Challenge Family announced a merger whereby all Rev 3 races would become Challenge Events beginning in 2015 (in reality it looks more like an acquisition by Challenge of Rev 3, I’m guessing no actual money exchanged hands and that Challenge simply assumed Rev 3’s debt). Read more…
A few months back I wrote about professional prize purses in triathlon here and here and more recently I wrote about Rev 3’s elimination of professional prize purses here. The issue of professional prizes purses has again reared its head in the triathlon world, and this time probably for the wrong Read more…
I wanted to be able to write a course and experience review of the inaugural Challenge Atlantic City, however, my header over a guard rail prevented that from happening. While I didn’t get to complete the entire course, Shaun and I did get a really good feeling of the Challenge Read more…
First and foremost I want to thank everyone for their well wishes, notes, texts, cards and everything else. It really helps to know that lots of people care about me and my inability to keep my wheels down. Five days post bike wreck and I’m going a little stir crazy. Read more…
There’s a joke in the cycling community — there are two types of cyclists in the world, those who have crashed and those who are going to crash. Yesterday at Challenge Atlantic City, I fell into the former category. The race week started off really well. We had a big Read more…
Yesterday we finally left Connecticut for Challenge Atlantic City. Atlantic City will be my seventh 140.6 triathlon and at this point I feel as if I have the pre-race preparation down cold. My routine is to lay everything out on the bed to make sure I have everything. I’ve gotten Read more…