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“My Support System” – John Bergquist

We just loved this post by John Bergquist, an aspiring endurance athlete, who blogs as Fit Knight.  In it, he praises his trisupporter wife and recognizes he could not do the sport without her by his side…..We so went aaaaah, so just had to share….Plus, we loved how he chose his name – It was from an old videogame handle he had and because a knight…

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Scoring A Deal On Your Next Race (Or Any) Vacation

The TriWives are very pleased to welcome back guest blogger, Tariq Ali, triathlete and creator of the website, 3Dealz.  This time he’s back with some great tips for booking your next race vacation and scoring a deal at the same time.  You can you know.  Enjoy and learn…. 5 TIPS FOR SCORING A DEAL ON YOUR NEXT RACE VACATION For most of us, signing up for…

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Father Daughter Triathletes – Family Battle Or Family Bonding?

We are so THRILLED to have Jodi and Guy’s daughter, Lindsay, as a guest blogger to the TriWivesClub.  Linsday is an animator by profession and a very successful age-group triathlete on the side AND she’s only been at it a year.  Lindsay placed 3rd in her age group at Ironman 70.3 Kansas – her VERY FIRST Ironman race –  and qualified for a spot at…

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Mike Thompson’s Wish

The TriWives just had to share our friend and guest blogger, Mike Thompson’s holiday wish with our readers, because we liked it so much and totally agree.  We are all special and should be striving to reach beyond the ordinary.  We’ve all had a loss or event happen when we’ve thought just how short life is and vow to live everyday to the fullest.  But,…

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Designing Triathlon Spaces – An Indoor Bike Training Room

Hopefully, you read our Designing Tri Spaces – Storing Your Bike article and would now like to move on to designing a total training room.  Or perhaps, you just need to find a space for all that gear that comes with doing triathlons and need some help knowing where to start.  Arlene Avidan, of Avidan Architecture & Design, is back to show you how uncomplicated it…

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Designing Triathlon Spaces – Storing Your Bike

We were recently visiting friends at their newly remodeled house in Maine.  The conversation just naturally steered towards triathlons, training, and then towards tri spaces – we had two triathletes and an architect present.  My first inclination was to figure out how to turn the conversation into an article for The TriWives and my second  was to convince our architect friend, Arlene Avidan, to redo OUR…

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Mike Thompson: 5 Tips For Triathletes As Race Day Nears

Mike Thompson is back with us to offer words of wisdom for athletes as race day nears.  Although the season may be winding down or even over for some of you, many still have races coming up or you can always save for next year.  We’ll take anything to make our lives easier, right?   These are great, actually useful tips and done with a…

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Mike Thompson: 5 Tips For Spectators As Race Day Nears

Mike Thompson is back with us to offer words of wisdom for spectators on race day.  Although the season may be winding down or even over for some of you, many still have races coming up or you can always save for next year.  We’ll take anything to make our lives easier, right?   These are great, actually useful tips and done with a sense…

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Dave Orlowski – Original Ironman Talks Racing & Spectating

The TriWives had the distinct pleasure to chat with Dave Orlowski, one of the original 1978 Ironman, who finished 3rd by the way.  Over the years, Dave has taken on the role of both racer and spectator, so he was able to offer a unique perspective for this interview.  Dave actually did not do another Ironman until 2008 for the 30th anniversary in Kona.  Since…

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Nell Stephenson Shares Kona “Food For Thought”

We TriWives are so lucky to have tri supporter, triathlete, and Paleo nutrition expert, Nell Stephenson, back to share with us her professional and personal views on Kona.  Nell will be at the Ironman World Championship this year as an age group qualifier, along with her triathlete hubby Chris and was recently in Kona for the 70.3.  As you head to Kona, she wanted to…

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