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Start the New Year with a first rate triathlon etiquette rant

The other day, while my back was turned and I was asking the sales clerk a question, a small round man absconded with my shopping cart. He just grabbed it and scurried away like a fat hungry weasel with a juicy chicken. So for all the fat hungry weasels in the world, here’s my New Years etiquette rant.

Swimming

There is no passing in lap swimming. When you share a lane you really have only two choices. 1) Spit the lane or 2) Share the lane. When you share the lane don’t pass, because until they invent underwater rearview mirrors, I have no idea that you are coming.

There is no mid-lane parking in swimming. If you are halfway down the lane, you should either be swimming or recovering from a cramp. Save the “my cat barfed-up the biggest hairball last night” discussion for the hot tub.

There is no underwater treasure in the pool. I know that you can find the some of the strangest stuff at the bottom of the pool. From old gum to funky hairballs to water soaked Band-Aids to what I hope are dead bugs and small creatures of all sorts to much funkier stuff. Don’t point this out to me. I’ve also seen the dead furry thing out of the corner of my eye and I’m also trying to keep my lips closed as hard as possible.

Joanna Zeiger comes to grips with fantasy vs. reality in Galveston, Texas

Editor's Note: Trenzo Bozzone (NZL) and Samantha McGlone (CAN) won the inaugural Ironman 70.3 U.S. Pro Championship in Galveston, Texas yesterday. But toeing the start line was our Boulder, Colorado based friend and super fast pro triathlete Joanna Zeiger. Her race day did not go as planned. But Joanna proves in her latest blog entry that sometimes you can learn more from a DNF than from a victory. Her race report is below...as posted to her most excellent blog Fast at Forty. 

Yesterday’s race did not unfold as planned. Who really ever plans not to finish? But, if I am being honest with myself and to you, the outcome was not entirely surprising.

From the: "Really, you don't say" file

In a recent interview with a German Newspaper Olympic superstar Usain Bolt admitted to having smoked marijuana as a child growing up in Jamaica.

"When you're a child in Jamaica, you learn how to roll a joint," he told The Bild newspaper.

"Everyone tried marijuana, including me, but I was really young," he went on to add.

Chrissie's excellent adventure

Chrissie Wellington spent the Holidays in England.

But before coming to Boulder (for a meet, greet, and bike fit with her new coach Simon Lessing), and after her Ironman World Championship performance in Kona---she spent some time in Argentina pushing  a gear laden mountain bike up and down huge mountains.

She chronicles her Latin American adventures on her blog:

"Unwashed, somewhat smelly, full of goat, covered in bruises, scratches, boils, blisters and the odd bite - but overjoyed to have managed to complete the newly named ‘Luna de Miel’ or ‘Honeymoon’ Route - and what has to be one of the hardest things I have ever done.

Breaking News: Lance Armstrong is training for two

OK, perhaps Lance Armstrong is not expecting, but his girlfriend, Anna Hansen, is.

CNN.com is reporting that Hansen is expecting, and that the baby is due in June.

This means that Armstrong will be a new father just before he's scheduled to race the Tour de France at beginning of June.

On Twitter, Armstrong stated one hour ago that he was:

"in the garage doing a core workout. Working off the beer belly it took me 3.5 yrs to build...!"

So far he seems to be mum about the breaking baby news.

Oprah says she feels like a "fat cow" at 200 pounds

In 1994, she finished the Marine Corps Marathon.

Today Oprah Winfrey says she's gained 40 pounds---since 2006, when she weighed 160 pounds.

"I look at my thinner self and think, `How did I let this happen again?'" the talk-show queen says in the article provided early to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions.

"I'm embarrassed," she says. "I'm mad at myself."

"I had a dress on the vision board, but I'm not sure that's gonna fit," Winfrey said. "So I have to work on something else."she added.

Macca and his two favorite blinged out rides

2007 Ironman World Champion Chris "Macca" McCormack has been doing a little R and R in Las Vegas this past weekend relaxing at the Wynn Casino, and watching the Oscar Delahoya boxing match, and getting ready to run the Las Vegas Marathon," according to his blog.

"Determined little bitch that no one should mess with"

Bella Comerford writes in her blog that she's happy beyond words after winning Ironman Florida, but that one hour before the race starts to the very end she's a "determined little bitch that no one should mess with."

Comerford goes on to write:

Dean Karnazes on racing in the Sahara

Running across the Sahara Desert for over 30-hours seems like a crazy idea for a race, yet Dean Karnazes absolutely loved it.

The celebrity ultra marathon man writes in his blog:

"After spending five days crossing very remote stretches of the Sahara Desert without getting lost, it is that on this final day of racing

Chrissie Wellington Bids Adieu to Team TBB

We reported last week that two time Ironman Champ Chrissie Wellington formed a new team and switched to a new coach. Today she bid farewell to her old team on her blog:

"My life has always been one full of exciting challenges, wonderful opportunities, and new adventures. I have followed many paths, and the path I have taken in the world of professional triathlon has so far been paved with success and smiles. Of course, I owe so much to Brett, and TeamTBB.

Breaking News: Wellington, Granger, and Biscay forming new tri team

Professional Triathlete Hilary Biscay is leaving her coach (Brett Sutton) and her team (TBB) and forming a new team along with Ironman two-time World Champion Chrissie Wellington and Belinda Granger. The new team will be headquartered in Tuscon, Arizona.

From Hillary Biscay's blog today:

"I snapped the front derailure cable just before the turn around at Hawi" Chris McCormack

We here at EverymanTri always like to keep you up-to-date on the Blogs of the Fast & Famous.

We'll perhaps the most famous current racing male triathlete (Chris McCormack) just updated his blog:

"I have received hundreds of emails and well wishes from people and want to thank you all for that. Many people seem to have an understanding of what happened in Kona to my bike, but the basic fact is that I snapped the front derailleur cable just before the turn around at Havi on the bike.

"My life has changed immeasurably over the past 12 months," Chrissie Wellington

We here at EverymanTri always like to keep you up-to-date on the Blogs of the Fast & Famous.

We'll perhaps the most famous current racing female triathlete (Chrissie Wellington) just updated her blog:

"My life has changed immeasurably over the past 12 months, in so many incredibly wonderful and very positive ways. Yes, I now have a host of wonderful sponsors, my very own website, nice new clothes, sunglasses that cost more than £20, and yes, there are no more cries of ‘Chrissie Who’?!

Blogs of the Fast & Famous

Have you ever wondered what the professionals are doing?

Well, wonder no longer.

Here's a brief list of some of the personal blogs and exploits of the fast and the famous in endurance sports.

Natalie Coughlin has been busy live well in Hawaii. She writes:

"This past weekend was simply incredible.  Ethan and I were invited to participate in American Express Publishing’s Food and Wine Paradise in Kapolei, Hawaii.  It was a showcase of some of the best chefs and vintners from Hawaii, California, and one Texan. The event not only helped make connections for both chefs and vineyards, but it also raised money for the Oahu Rotary Foundation. Good food and I get to go to Hawaii?  And it goes to a good cause?!?  I couldn’t have been more excited.  And to top it off, a very generous woman from the Oahu Rotary Foundation offered to let Ethan and I use her beautiful three-bedroom condo situated on one of the property’s many lagoons."

Blogs of the Fast & Famous

Have you ever wondered what the professionals are doing?

Well, wonder no longer.

Here's a brief list of some of the personal blogs and exploits of the fast and the famous in endurance sports.

Blogs of the Fast & Famous

Have you ever wondered what the professionals are doing?

Well wonder no longer.

Here's a brief list of some of the personal blogs of the fast and the famous in endurance sports.