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Jonathon Blais, ‘The Warrior Poet’, who made the log-roll finish famous and brought attention to the plight of those suffering with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s finally succumbed to the disease on Sunday evening.

I was browsing the Ironman Brazil results and I saw Nina Kraft in 16th place overall and first woman with amazing 9:12:40 (a new course record as well).

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I live in the southeast U.S., hot, humid summers and cool winters, mountains and rolling hills - great for training! I ran my first marathon in June 2000 in Kona, Hawaii, just to see if I could do it with Type 1 diabetes. Hardest thing I’d ever [...]

I just started tryining with Powertap and this night I found this Ironman Talk interview with Gordo Byrn. What can I say? Every time I listened to or read Gordo’s stuff everything - I mean everything - he said was 1000% correct and made perfect sense and was delivered in the most understandable way [...]