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SPOTLIGHT ON THE SPORT – INTERVIEW WITH CANADIAN NATIONAL TRIATHLETE & OLYMPIC HOPEFUL KYLE JONES

Our Spotlight on the Sport this month features Kyle Jones, a globally ranked Canadian triathlete. Jones grew up in Oakville Ontario watching his father race in triathlons and competed in his first Kids of Steel triathlon race at age 10. What would follow is an impressive rise to the top of the Nation with a [...]

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Spotlight on the Sport – Interview with Grant Burwash

SPOTLIGHT ON THE SPORT He owns over two-dozen pairs of Oakleys, counts baking as one of his favorite non-triathlon endeavors and would be an optometrist if he weren’t a professional athlete. Not many athletes that sustain a broken toe in second transition wouldn’t carry on, let alone run a smoking 1:16 half marathon. Meet Grant [...]

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Enjoy the Ride, March 2012 – Keep Marching forward, you’re not in the sprint quite yet.

Whoa! I know it’s March, I know. But that doesn’t mean your race is just around the corner. Don’t start training like you’ve got weeks and not months to go before your 2012 goal races. Every year around this time the mood changes a bit in my cycling classes. I sense the tension as soon [...]

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SPOTLIGHT ON THE SPORT

INTERVIEW WITH SPEEDTHEORY BIKE MECHANIC DOUG HAGEDORN You’ll find him in the back of the store in the mechanic’s area tinkering on a bike, tearing up the pathways on his Kona commuter or finishing his Masters degree at University of Calgary (including some impressive upcoming publications).  He’s a man with a serious love of bikes -he [...]

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