Jarrod Shoemaker is a Boston native who ran at Dartmouth, but didn’t get into the sport of triathlon until 2004. By 2008 he was on the US Olympic team and in 2009 he had a huge breakthrough when he won the Hamburg ITU race. Jarrod came in studio to talk about his racing, training and
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Photo: Paul Phillips Great Britain’s Helen Jenkins, who is training in the Canary Islands, blogs about how she’s feeling with the Olympic games six months away. The Olympic opening ceremony is six months away today. After all the years of talking about London 2012, it now seems incredibly close. Yet, when I look at it in terms of my training plan, the weeks of competitions, it still seems there is a lot more work ahead – a lot more miles to cover on the bike, a lot more running, a lot more swimming. Like all the 550-odd British athletes hoping to be in London, this is not a glamorous time of the year but a very important one of which the public is probably not very aware. Out of sight and mind and before the competitive season starts in the spring, this is when we put in a lot of the work building up our core strength with the aim of peaking on that special day, which for me is the women’s triathlon on August 4. As far as I am concerned, life stops after that – I have not thought about what I will be doing after that day in Hyde Park, except maybe cheering on the GB men in their triathlon three days later. I have just arrived in Lanzarote for three weeks’ warm-weather training. The British squad were here before Christmas and I have come out for more work with my husband, Marc, who is my coach, and also here is one of our top men, Jonny Brownlee. Read more: Express.co.uk
Triathlete.com caught up with American Olympic hopeful Matt Chrabot during a training run in San Diego, Calif. Chrabot lays out what it will take to make the American team and what he’s sacrificed to hopefully get to London. “I helped the U.S. earn a spot on the Olympic start line. That spot is pretty much my baby. I think it belongs to me. You’re going to have to rip it out of my fingers to get it from me.”
The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has confirmed the prize money for the 2012 ITU World Triathlon Series, with the total prize pool surpassing two million dollars. See the press release below: Photo: Delly Carr/Triathlon.org With an overall increase of 15 percent, prize money from the eight series events and the year-end bonus pool will total $2.06-million (all funds USD). “Across the board we are seeing tremendous growth in our premier series – from spectators to participants to sponsors to broadcast partners and now with prize money for our elite athletes,” said Marisol Casado, ITU President and IOC Member. ”On the back this growth, 2012 is poised to be the greatest and most exciting triathlon season to date.” The Grand Final in Auckland will feature a $270,000 prize purse while the prize money for every other series event will be $170,000. Also, each race and the Grand Final will also now award prize money down to the 20th place, whereas in 2011 only athletes who finished in the top-15 claimed prize money. Athletes will vie for an additional $600,000 in the year-end bonus pool which pays the top 30 ranked women and men – up from top-20 – at season’s end. This figure is up from $500,000 in the 2011 season. Overall, it means that there is an increase of $260,000 to the overall pool, up from $1.8-million to $2.06-million. Finishing the year atop the series rankings will not only earn an athlete the coveted title of “ITU World Champion” but also net $60,000 of the bonus pool. The 2012 ITU World Triathlon Series kicks off on April 14-15 in Sydney, Australia. With eight events in eight different countries, the 2012 ITU World Champions will be crowned at the Grand Final in Auckland, New Zealand on Oct. 20-22. The ITU World Triathlon Series was launched in 2009, expanding the former single-day World Championship race. Points are accrued throughout the season and athletes who win the overall series are crowned the ITU World Champions. RELATED PHOTOS: ITU’s Photos Of The Year
