Michael Rauschendorfer has become one of triathlon’s premier photographers. You might have seen him in Kona, Lanzarote, or Abu Dhabi. Now hear what he’s thinking behind that fisheye lens.
by Tim Carlson, December 9, 2011
This week’s random age grouper is Matthew Rose, an athlete and coach from Atlanta, Georgia who had multiple random encounters with the slowtwitch editor-in-chief during this year’s Kona week.
Andrea MacIntosh is a Canadian athlete who did Ironman New Zealand this year, but will mostly focus on XTERRA events in 2012. She is our randomly selected age grouper this week.
Eneko Llanos and Leanda Cave talk about what their wins at Ford Ironman Arizona meant to them: Llanos broke 8 hours, Cave won her first Ironman, broke 9 hours and ran sub-3 hours.
Many of us have thought about packing up, leaving the rat race and moving to a warmer climate, but for most of us that is just a pipe dream. Random age grouper Kathy Smith made this dream a reality and now lives in Mexico.
4 Aussies made quite an impression in Kona with their 4 musketeers theme, and they actually backed it up with some fine performances. We chatted with head musketeer John Mergler to learn more.
He’s America’s other junior who runs like the wind, with a hard-to-spell last name. Tony Smoragiewicz talks to Slowtwitch about choosing between single- and triple-sport, about his post-HS plans, and his views on talent ID and development.
The most popular article in the Washington Post this week is an account of triathlon’s deaths in the water. But this is not an aberrant year. It’s much like 2008. We interview David Brown, the Post article’s author.
German age grouper Beate Görtz was the top female amateuer in Kona and finished 15th overall. Quite impressive when considering that she has been involved with triathlon only for a few years.
Emma-Kate Lidbury of Oxford, England had a breakthrough year in 2011 with wins at 70.3 races in Mallorca, UK, and Augusta. Her introduction to the sport came on a 2005 assignment for the Oxford Mail and Times – and she’s still a working journalist!
After a short break we continue with our random age group interviews. Mike Lorenzen is from Chicago and he became part of our random interviews when he became slowtwitch Facebook fan 11,111 on 11/11/11.
Chris McCormack swims, bikes, runs… and writes for a living. In his first ST interview since becoming an ink slinger, it’s a reflective Macca on writing, on his home country, his reputation for outspokenness, and, on training.
An inspired Lukas Vercbicas stormed to the win at the 2011 Junior ITU World Championships before shipping off to Oregon to run track for said University. Now Verzbicas has announced that he is returning to his first love – triathlon.