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Feature: Everyman Endurance Podcast with Simon Lessing

He is:

4 Time World Triathlon Champion (1992,1995,1996,1998)

World Long Distance Triathlon Champion 1995 (4km-120km-32km)

Vice World Champion 1993 and 1999

3 Time European Triathlon Champion 1991,1992 and 1994

Cervelo Unvails the New P4

The long-awaited and much-anticipated unavailing of the new Cervelo P4 took place in a packed room at the Interbike Bicycle Trade Show in Las Vegas.

The bike is an evolution of Cervelo's successful P3 and is said to have a 20% improvement in frame aerodynamics.

Younger Women at an Increased Risk of Melanoma

For many athletes, the summer training and racing season is all but over, but all that outdoor exercise comes with a price.

A recent study found that young women are increasingly more likely to get a dangerous form of skin cancer.

The results of the study were reported in the Washington Post:

Feature: Top Ten Ways to DNF at Your Next Race (Part 2)

In my never-ending quest to help you avoid all of my painful, embarrassing and hard earned lessons, here are the Top 5 Ways to DNF at your next race.

Now keep in mind that I have attended the University of Suckology and that I do have a PHD in the many and various disciplines that it takes to really blow up during a race.

Brooker: (Triathletes) "using low-wattage bulbs in the attic"

With the Ironman World Championships just around the corner, Canadian Columnist Kevin Brooker decided to weight in with his thoughts about how unhealthy Kona bound triathletes really are in the weeks before the big race.

In today's Calgary Herald he writes about Ironman Triathletes:

"Ripped as they are, body-wise, they appear to confront significant cerebral challenges. Perhaps they're using low-wattage bulbs in the attic. Or maybe they've got a few too many hamsters crowding the wheel."

If Not Now, When?

What do a 53-year-old outdoor writer and a 40-year-old soldier serving in Iraq have in common?

They both just completed the team raceAthlete B-Fit B-Day Challenge.

Amber Travsky, the outdoor writer, filed this report below.

Bill Anders, the soldier serving in Iraq,

"Unsportsmanlike and Dangerous Behaviour" at the Duathlon World Championships

Paul Amey of Great Britain and and Vanessa Fernandes of Portugal both took home the top honors at this weekend's Duathlon Championships in Rimini Italy.

The ITU duathlon  consists of a 10km run, 40km bike, followed by a 5k run.

Feature: Top Ten Ways to DNF at Your Next Race by Roman Mica

Just to keep it honest, I must admit that I have countless years of experience at sucking come race day. So please note that these top ten tips don’t just come from your Average Joe DNF. No they don’t! Indeed, if they offered a technical degree in RDS (Race Day Suckage), I would not only be the student, but the professor, dean and trustee of the USDS (The University of Race Day Suckage).

10. Try something crazy just minutes before the race

Marathon Record Broken Again by Gebrselassie

Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie broke the world record marathon time in Berlin today with a time of 2:03:59.

This was the second consecutive time he broke the record in Berlin, Germany.

Everyman Weekly Training Plan Week of 9.29.08

Base/Intro (Second workout each day is always optional)

Monday:        

Swim: Distance Set

Warm-up: 400 yards
4x150 Kick/Drill/Swim by 50 on: 30sec rest
4x75 Odds are Build, evens are Ez on: 30sec rest

team raceAthlete Weekly Poll Results

Last week we asked, "If you could train with any of today's famous celebrities, who would you choose?"

You voted, the results are in, and Lance Armstrong is by far your favorite and preferred celebrity training buddy.

Three Marathons in Three Days

This weekend will mark the running of the 13th annual Lake Tahoe Marathon.

For most athletes this race will be the culmination of a lot of hard work and training.

But for about ninety people it will just be another day, another marathon.

Breaking News: "I have not doped," Professional Cyclist Frank Schlek

Cycling News is reporting that professional cyclist Frank Shlelk has been "unmasked" today as a customer of Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor whose Madrid clinic was raided by Spanish police in 2006 as part of Operación Puerto.

Breaking News: The Los Angeles Marathon Sold and Moved to a New Date

Frank McCourt, the owner or the Dodgers, has just completed the purchase of the Los Angeles Marathon, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The race date will be moved from the first Sunday in March to the Monday President's Day holiday in February.

"The transaction closed this morning, the wire transfers have occurred and, in terms of the [city-owned] intellectual property, we have taken control of that.

Weekend Endurance Buzz Report

Every week we feature the most interesting breaking new stories, news specials, exclusive feature reports, opinion and editorial articles, gossip and reviews from the world of endurance sports. But every week we run out of room to publish every story that we track.

That's why on Friday we'll be bringing you the Weekend Endurance Buzz Report to get you caught up on all the news you may have missed.

Feature Review: Mission Product Athlete-Engineered Skincare by Susan Grant

 EveryMan "Gotta Have" Latte Rating Scale: Rating Scale (based on the amount of lattes per day you'll give up to buy this product)


• 4 Lattes: A must have product that will make your friends jealous and your competitors cower in undisguised fear and trepidation.

• 3 Lattes: A very good investment in well worth forgoing a year or two of your children's college fund.

• 2 Lattes: One of those products that actually does what it says it does, but with the same pizazz as a Q-Tip.

• 1 Latte: The best thing said about this product is that I wouldn't send it back if I got it for free.

• No Latte: So excruciatingly lame that you would get more value by crossing the street for some discarded and well chewed gum before buying this product.