Sports Injury Prevention for Triathletes

If you’re like most triathletes, then your friends and family often look at you as if you’re Jack Nicholson in the Shining, or maybe they hope that it’s “just a phase” or “mid-life crisis” as they whisper to others as you ride your new Cervelo up the driveway from a 6 hour bike ride… But [...]

Dr James O’Keefe is a preventive cardiologist with Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City who has an interesting take on possible negative impact of excessive chronic exercise on the heart

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Under cloudy skies on Sunday afternoon, the elite women raced at the Hamburg ITU World Championship Series triathlon, with a clean sweep of the podium by the “Emmas”, as Emma Moffatt, Jackson, and Snowsill managed to break free from a large lead pack on the run. Series leader Paula Findley skipped this stop on the [...]

Saturday’s men’s ITU triathlon race in Hamburg, Germany saw a blistering bike pace blow apart the run for many of the men. Australian Brad Kahlefeldt managed to outrun Great Britain’s Will Clarke and David Hauss from France down the finish chute for his first ITU World Championship Series win. Javier Gomez took sixth place, which [...]

It’s Friday morning and the team is getting it’s last swim workout in at one of the local Germany swimming pools. It’s an interesting contrast watching the several pool lanes packed with elite triathletes swimming next to the water aerobics class, in German, with what sounds like a mix of polka music with a techno [...]

Here in a cool and overcast Hamburg, Germany for the next stop on the ITU Triathlon World Championship Series. We have a slightly smaller US team due to some last minute drops due to injury. It seems that weather continues to be a factor in the race series. A traditionally hot Madrid race in May [...]

Sunday afternoon saw warmer temperatures for the women’s World Championship Series triathlon race in Madrid’s Casa de Campo park. Overall, a good race for the U.S. women, with Sarah Groff and Laura Bennett turning in strong performances and both placing in the top 10. Jillian Petersen and Gwen Jorgensen rounded out the US women’s team. [...]

The second stop on the ITU WCS Triathlon comes to Madrid this weekend. I arrived today from San Diego as part of the USA Triathlon medical and support staff. This is my second visit to Madrid with the US team and this is one of my favorite cities on the WCS triathlon series. We have [...]

the 2011 race season is underway, and this weekend I’ve made the short trip from San Diego to Tucson, Arizona to supervise medical support for USA Triathlon’s 2011 Duathlon National Championships. The race will serve as the U.S. Qualifier for the ITU Dualthon ld Championships this September in Spain. The race course is actually about [...]