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Author: cathcam

The Shame of Volunteering for Ironman

June 10, 2025June 11, 2025 cathcam

I first volunteered for Ironman UK in 2001 at the Llanberis race. I still have the shirt. I'd been racing triathlons for a few years by then. I knew how shambolic races could be behind ....

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An Early Story Of Cycling and Thanksgiving from 1880

November 28, 2024 cathcam

A bicycle / cycling story for thanksgiving, original printed in the Paxton Record Newspaper on Thursday, December 2nd, 1880. {fn. The Paxton Record was published in Paxton Illinois}. It is reproduced here without alternation except ....

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Triathlon T-shirt etiquette

November 21, 2024 cathcam

[This is another post that I wrote and am copying over for prosperity, I doubt the original Triathletes-uk website will go away, but just in case, here are the original triathlon t-shirt etiquette rules, written ....

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Grow the Sport by Cultivating Local Triathlon Heroes

November 21, 2024 cathcam

[This article is a copy of one I wrote back on June 28th, 2015 and was posted here. I've copied it here for prosperity. No other changes have been made unless noted at the end ....

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Back Issues of the British Triathlon Handbook

February 8, 2024 cathcam

Although I dabbled in cycling, swimming, and running, I didn't really get involved in triathlon until the late 1990s. Much like everything I do, I threw myself into it and went from being a newbie ....

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The Round-the World ‘Cyclist’s Arrival

May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 cathcam

On Thursday I started a twitter thread with old newspaper clippings of interesting cycling news as reported. I thought it would be fun to post at least one every day as a tweet. I started ....

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Shoe stories, 2021

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 cathcam

While the media is full of stories about records being set by athletes with super lightweight shoes with a carbon fiber spine, I've finally managed to find someone who can build me a shoe at ....

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WSG Time to sell

January 23, 2021January 27, 2021 cathcam

Follow the tweets. YOU MUST SELL any Wanda Sports Group ASD's by January 29th, or tender them back to Wanda for $2.55. My fun ride with Wanda cost me $93 as a loss on the ....

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Phelps – Err, no.

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 cathcam

https://twitter.com/News4Tri/status/1344505725670760452?s=20 Err, I fell for it. I read this late in the evening, my assumption was maybe, just maybe the Europeans had got a head start on the US. Kevin MacKinnon rained on mine, and ....

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Wanda Sports Q1 Results – A Nothing Burger?

June 13, 2020 cathcam

Wanda Sports held their 1Q2020 quarterly results announcement on Tuesday (6/9) and the market has been less than impressed. They moved Ironman Group, aka the WTC, off the main part of their books and re-did ....

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