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1 day ago | 
tri247.com | Jonathan Turner
As the dust settles after the recent announcement that both the men and women will be racing on the same day in Kona at next year’s IRONMAN World Championship, one of the burning questions has been how that will play out for age-group qualification slots. IRONMAN’s press release stated there will be “nearly 3,000” places available – but how will they be distributed between men and women?
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1 day ago | 
tri247.com | Jonathan Turner
Massively in-form Canadian star Paula Findlay will headline a stacked Vancouver T100 women’s start list. Findlay could not have started the year in better style – she claimed a hard-fought victory at IRONMAN 70.3 Oceanside and then followed that with an emphatic success at 70.3 St George last weekend.
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1 day ago | 
run247.com | Jonathan Turner
Ruth Croft went into the 2025 edition of Transvulcania as the reigning women’s champion and course record holder after a superb performance 12 months earlier. She had followed that display with second place at UTMB and underlined her current good form with another win at the Tarawera 100k earlier this year, meaning she started the Spanish race as clear favourite.
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1 day ago | 
tri247.com | Jonathan Turner
With all due respect to the fields that lined up in the opener at Abu Dhabi back in February, it feels like the WTCS season only really hits top gear in Japan this weekend. Every single women’s WTCS winner since May 2023 is taking part and even though the men’s start list is missing the Paris one-two in Alex Yee (recovering after the London Marathon) and Hayden Wilde (injured), it still boasts a wealth of talent.
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2 days ago | 
tri247.com | Jonathan Turner
Sam Long says he was happy with his second place at IRONMAN 70.3 St. George at the weekend – but his race recap video would suggest otherwise. ‘The Big Unit’ had won the Utah race for the previous two seasons but this time had to settle for the runner-up spot, just over two minutes behind friend and rival Lionel Sanders. “I’m happy with that, a second place is still successful,” says Long at the start of his latest YouTube video, which is embedded at the bottom of this piece.
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2 days ago | 
run247.com | Jonathan Turner
Brilliant 2025 Winter Spine Race winner Lucy Gossage claimed another ultrarunning title at the weekend with a record-breaking display in the UK’s Lake District. The NHS oncologist and former pro triathlete, with multiple IRONMAN victories to her name, has made a real splash in ultrarunning circles in the last couple of years. And on Saturday she returned to ‘The Lap’, a 45-mile loop around Lake Windermere.
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3 days ago | 
run247.com | Jonathan Turner
John Kelly is putting the finishing touches to his long-awaited tilt at the Appalachian Trail. The ultrarunning legend, who has three Barkley Marathon finishes to his name alongside a whole host of other achievements, has wanted to tackle the near 2,200-mile trail for as long as he can remember.
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4 days ago | 
run247.com | Jonathan Turner
‘Don’t meet your heroes’ goes the phrase – but Alex Yee for one definitely doesn’t believe in it, especially now. Yee has inspired many people himself, all the more so after his incredible gold medal in the triathlon at the Paris Olympics in 2024, which was voted as Team GB’s moment of the Games. But he got the opportunity to catch up with one of his own idols when he sat down after his London Marathon debut with the GOAT that is Eliud Kipchoge, twice an Olympic champion at the distance.
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4 days ago | 
tri247.com | Jonathan Turner
They’ve now won six IRONMAN 70.3 St. George races since 2016 between them but their latest showdown on Saturday arguably saw Lionel Sanders and Sam Long hit new heights. The sometime training partners bossed it from the bike onwards in what was the final edition of this iconic event in Utah. But it was Sanders, who proved strongest – he bossed the bike leg, taking Long’s course record from last year in the process, and then stayed super-solid to close it out on the run.
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5 days ago | 
tri247.com | Jonathan Turner
Paula Findlay followed up her 70.3 Oceanside victory – just like men’s winner and fellow Canadian Lionel Sanders – with a superb success in the last-ever running of IRONMAN 70.3 St. George in Utah. She’d had an enthralling battle with Brazil’s Vittoria Lopes on the bike but when Lopes stepped off the course early on the run it became one-way traffic.
