Is there any defensible explanation for Escape’s fee increase, beyond charging what the market will bear? Slowtwitch asked. Here’s what we found.

Gina Crawford and Guy Crawford (not related) won Ironman 70.3 Taiwan; Kate Bevilaqua (Guy Crawford’s significant other) and Christian Kramer (unattached) placed 2nd.

Rumors were plentiful, but now it is official: the 2016 IRONMAN Melbourne is cancelled and that means the hunt is on for a new Asia-Pacific Champs location.

This week we noticed an interesting tail light from NiteRider, a super expensive short course race, a bicycle first aid kit, Hell on Orange, a clever Halloween card, and more.

We bring you accounts of exciting triathlon action from Miami and Mexico in North America, Turkey in Europe and Penrith in Australia – three 70.3s and a short course classic.

Matthew Sharp of Great Britain and Yuka Sato of Japan won their first World Cup titles Saturday in the final race of the 2015 ITU World Cup series in Tongyeong.

Brit Susie Cheetham finished 6th in Kona and 7th in Zell am See this year, but as she is now fully devoted to triathlon we can expect to see even more from her.

Jason Gunter lost his right hand and left leg in a boating accident, and his first attempt to finish Kona fell short in 2009. But in 2015 he had a 2nd chance.

After a discouraging setback last year, Timothy O’Donnell hit the reset button and came up with a personal best, top American, 3rd-place finish in Kona.

German Malte Bruns was the top age grouper at the GoPro Ironman World Championships and here you can meet this young man who started triathlon in 2014.

Robby MacBeath of Cloudberry Media captured the inaugural Loch Gu Loch SwimRun event in video so we can all experience it in cozy and dry comfort.

Party Time! Forty shops in 32 cities will host a Slowtwitch Road Show in 2016. Here’s a list of metro areas and participating Road Show stores.