Jul 30, 2018
Gerry Rodriguez, the founder and head coach of Tower 26, is known as one of the top triathlon swim coaches. He has such athletes on his roster as triathlon pros Lionel Sanders and Linsey Corbin, just to name a couple. But he also works with age-groupers of all skill levels to improve their swim strokes, both in...
Jul 23, 2018
Since 2010, Gwen Jorgensen has been known as a top female athlete in triathlon after being named USA Triathlon's Rookie of the Year. She placed 2nd in the 2011 World Championship Series in London, earning a spot on the 2012 USA Olympic triathlon team. In the following years, she wracked up countless podium finishes in...
Jul 16, 2018
Melissa Hauschildt is one of the best triathletes of all-time. In her nearly 70 pro triathlons she's won 47 races setting course records in the majority of her wins and holds the world record for most half-ironman wins by a female in under 4:10. However, due to an unbelievable string of bad luck Mel Hauschildt has...
Jul 9, 2018
Professional triathlete Matt Russell was having a great race at Kona in 2017 when he was hit by a vehicle mid-race. Not only did he suffer nearly life-ending physical injuries, he sustained a catastrophic brain injury. The accident was so bad, he doesn't remember any of it, he only knows the details relayed to him by...
Jul 1, 2018
With a time of 3:50:09, pro triathlete Matt Hanson was the men's winner of 2018 Ironman 70.3 Coeur D'Alene. Hanson has been in the professional ranks since 2014 when he won Ironman Chattanooga in his first year as a pro. He also set three run course records that year. In 2015, a win at Ironman Texas (where he also...