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Video: Over 50,000 runners celebrate Memorial Day with a 10K run

It's the seconds biggest running race in America, and it is held every year on Memorial Day in Boulder Colorado.

This year over 50,000 runners celebrated the Memorial Day holiday with a 10-Kilometer run at the 2010 Bolder Boulder.

After the race many runners and their families stayed for one of the largest Memorial Day remembrances in the country.

Filip Ospaly & Yvonne Van Vlerke smash the course records at 2010 Ironman 70.3 Austria

It was an all European top position of the podium at the 2010 Ironman 70.3 in St. Pölten, Austria as European triathletes smashed both the men's and women's course records.

Czech triathlete Filip Ospaly (who certainly wasn't "ospaly" which means drowsy in Czech) overcame defending Aussie champion Chris McCormack on the run and set a new course record of 3:46:02.

Both triathletes hammered the run with Ospaly crossing the finish line only about a minute ahead of Mecca.

"Great race in Austria. These ITU boys are fast on the run. I had an awesome run, 69 minutes, felt strong, but he kicked past me to win. Hard," Chris McCormack tweeted after the race.

On the women's side of the race it was Dutch triathlete Yvonne Van Vlerken who set a course record, and won the race by just a tiny sliver of time over Hungarian Erika Csomor.

It would be hard to image a tighter finish as only 0.2 seconds separated the two women as they lunged across the finish line of the race.

Click HERE for complete professional and age-group results.

Franky Batelier and Melanie McQuaid win XTERRA European Championship in Italy

May 30, 2010 (Cala Ginepro, Orosei : Sardinia, Italy) - Frenchman Franky Batelier was just 15 seconds faster than Olivier Marceau, but that was all he needed to to keep his six-race winning streak alive at the XTERRA European Championship in Italy today.  In the women's race, Canadian Melanie McQuaid picked up her first win of season, and her second in Italy (she also won here in 2005).

Kahuna Dave" Nicholas, the managing director of the XTERRA World Tour, was at the race and brings us this report (and photos)...

Don’t you wish we all had jobs like the weatherman?  It makes no difference if you are right or wrong, you still keep your job.  All week, the weather for Sunday’s race was predicted as rain, rain, and more rain.  Everyone here believed it to be true as for the past five years it has rained slightly during every XTERRA Italy, but much to the delight of competitors and fans the morning dawned picture perfect with temperatures in the mid 70’s, a nice breeze, and not a cloud in sight.

Top seven Olympic triathlon training myths (part 2)

An Olympic triathlon is a great "next step" up from a Sprint distance race, and even a good beginner race if you've got the fitness to swim 1.5K, bike 40K and run 10K. But before you jump into your training, you should take into consideration a few of these Olympic triathlon training myths. (Click HERE for Part 1)

Video: Triathletes Laura & Greg Bennett get ready to race the pro runners at the 2010 Bolder Boulder

Every year at least one professional triathlete from Boulder, Colorado takes on America's second largest running race: The 2010 Bolder Boulder.

With almost 54K runners excepted to race the high altitude 10K, the Bolder Boulder promises to test both amatuer and professional athletes alike.

This year the power triathlon team of Greg and Laura Bennett will race for two different teams. Greg will represent his home country of Australia for the last time while Laura races for team Colorado.

Paul Martin gets ready to run Comrades Marathon for needy Kenyan kids

Editor's Note: We just got another email from our friend Paul Martin who will be running the very challenging Comrades Marathon in the next few days. We'll follow Paul as he runs the challenge of his life.

In just a couple days I'll be running 56 miles. From Pietermaritzburg to Durban, South Africa. It's called the Comrades Marathon. The world's oldest, most respected and most prestigious ultra-marathon.

The top seven Olympic triathlon training myths (part 1)

An Olympic triathlon is a great "next step" up from a Sprint distance race, and even a good beginner race if you've got the fitness to swim 1.5K, bike 40K and run 10K. But before you jump into your training, you should take into consideration a few of these Olympic triathlon training myths.

Third round of ITU World Championship heads to Spain this weekend

Vancouver, 28 May 2010 - The third round of the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series touches down in Madrid, Spain next weekend, with the women set to race on Saturday, June 5th and the men to follow on Sunday. 2010 marks the 8th year in a row that Madrid has hosted an ITU event in Casa de Campo Park, on a course that serves up a 12-percent grade climb on each of the 8 laps of the bike leg. The race will be the first opportunity for athletes to score points toward securing a spot for their country at the 2012 Olympic Triathlon in London.

The big story in the men's contest is the potential showdown between reigning ITU World Champion Alistair Brownlee of Great Britain and 2008 ITU World Champ Javier Gomez of Spain. It will be Brownlee's first race of 2010, after sitting out the first two races of the Series due to a femoral stress fracture. A healthy Brownlee will look to pick up on where he left off in 2009-a year in which he won five Series events, including the Grand Final. The 22-year-old Brit won handily on this course last year, finishing 48 seconds ahead of the runner-up.  However Head Coach Joel Filliol is more reserved about his hope for the young star;  "Alistair's recovery and training have been based around a return to competition in Madrid and we're pleased that this has gone according to plan. He lacks race fitness, and has had a gap in his training, but we're excited about his return to competition."

Video: Growing Bolder reports from the Master's Swim Championships in Atlanta

Growing Bolder CEO Marc Middleton took his suit and his video camera to the U.S. Masters National Swimming Championships in Atlanta. He returned with dozens of new friends, four medals and one story about an amazing competition and a great organization helping men and women from 18 to 100 prove it's not about age, it's about attitude.

Video: Cyclist chronicles year of dangerous drivers with helmet cam

If you ride a bike on public roads chances are that you've probably almost been run off the road by a car.

Perhaps you've almost been hit or had a driver act as if you didn't exist.

That's all of the stuff that one cyclist in Canada caught on camera in this CNN report.

Is the latest Lance Armstrong video rant voicemail commercial SNL worthy?

By far the best part of this new Lance Armstrong video/commercial is:

1) Alfonzo

2) When Lance hits the breaks on the bike to make his point.

We're not saying that Armstrong is a comic genius, but we think that you'll admit that his timing is pretty good in this video where Armstrong plays the part of  RadioShack's CMO. That would be Chief Mobility Officer.

Snazzy new Tri ride: Ford and Timex partner and jump on the social media bandwagon

Here's a question for you...

What do Ford, Timex, and Foursquare have in common?

Until this week probably not much, but recently Timex and Ford announced that they were providing five cars to the Timex Multisport Team to (according to the press release below) "make life for our elite athletes a little bit easier. It’s just another way for us to say ‘thank you’ to the competitors who make this sport great.”

It seems that Timex and Ford have taken a page out of professional cycling by providing cars to pro athlete teams.

Biggest Loser finale strange outcome: Biggest loser isn't the biggest winner

By now you probably know that Michael Ventrella took home a cool quarter of a million dollars as the winner of this season Biggest Loser.

He started out at 526 pounds and lost 264 pounds for a final weight of 262 pounds, or more importantly he lost just a tad over 50 percent of his original body.

The 50 percent number (percentage of his original body weight) is crucial because that's how the Biggest Loser contestants are always judged.

In other words, it is the percentage of body fat loss that determines everything in the show.

Koli Palu was the at-home winner this year and walked away with $100,000 but (and this is the part that's strange) he actually lost a bigger percentage of body weight than Ventrella.

He started on the show at 403 pounds with a final weight last night of 188. He lost a total of 215 pounds or 53.35 percent of his original body weight.

Rapid Review: Saucony women's ProGrid Triumph 7

I have about 350 miles on my Women's ProGrid Triumph 7, a cushioned shoe for the neutral runner.  Although I have a neutral gate, I slightly over-pronate which has been corrected by orthotics that also support a high arch. Having been a Saucony fan since the Omni 3, I have not found a model since the Omni 6 that has a wide-enough toe box to be comfortable on a very long run (13 miles or longer). 

Zen and the Art of Triathlon podcast: The real deal on gluten

 

Click HERE to listen!

Alert! Urgent! Heck YEAH!  Just a quick note before we get into the show - We are having a FREE ZenTri open water swimming clinic at Lake Travis in Austin TX. this weekend.  We'll be doing open water swimming both mornings, that's May 29th and 30th, at Lake Travis, at Windy Point Park, at 7:30 AM.

Regular listeners of ZenTri know that swimming is a specialty of mine, so I'll be giving a bunch of tips on techniques and then we'll hit the waves.  AND we'll have some surfboards and paddleboards with us for people who want to go reeaaally far out there. You know you want to hang out and enjoy the fun, so c'mon! Follow zentriathlon on twitter for more details as we get closer, and stay tuned!

Ok, on with the show.  Let's dive into a great interview with the incredibly knowledgeable Christine Lynch, a.k.a HolisticGuru, about nutrition.  We cover many topics and I bet you'll find at least some of them incredibly important to you.

Is EPO making a comeback in cycling: experts fear microdosing?

Professional cycling is all too often the poster child for illegal performance enhancing drug use.

That's why the sport of cycling was one of the first endurance sports to get serious about cheating and develop the strict biological passport.

The World Anti-Doping Agency also supports the biological passport. The passport (developed about two and half years ago) follows the athlete's blood and maintains a electronic record of the make-up of the blood and any substances, banned or not, that might potentially enhance performance.