• The Slowblog commences. 10.18.06

• It's Kona time, and that means the Annual Slowtwitch Bike Survey. As a warmup, here's last year's Survey, and all the Survey numbers back to 1992, when our Survey commenced. 10.11.06

• One of the problems bedeviling bike fitters and their customers is the chasm between fit coordinates and the bike geometries that accommodate them. In "Translating fit specs to bike specs" we bridge that chasm. 9.22.06

• The verdict is in on 2007 production bike geometries. 9.20.06

• How do you know the all-star fitters from the rest of the varsity? (Or the jayvee?). Just as with most professionals, they've got top quality tools of the trade. 9.19.06

• Triathletes are cognizant of their waistlines. Did you know your bike has a waistline as well? 9.19.06

• "High elbows" is an oft-misunderstood virtue in swimming. In asking the question, Has swimming got you over a barrel?, we hope the answer is yes, and we explain why. 8.30.06

• Many reasonably good triathletes do not consider swimming worthy of much attention spent in training. We disagree with this novel theory, and make the Case for swimming. 8.30.06

• Cancer foundations and triathlon have been good to each other. The man who made the original connection is back and he's brought cancer with him, as we write about in Still cancer after all these years. 8.29.06