Ryan Heisler

3 days ago | slowtwitch.com | Ryan Heisler

Kenya’s John Korir and Sharon Lokedi won the 129th Boston Marathon, with both making history in the process. Korir joined his older brother Wesley as a Boston Marathon champion, breaking out of the pack in the critical Newton hills to take victory and become the first sibling duo to win the event. Korir ran 2:04:45, the second fastest men’s winning time here ever. Nineteen seconds later came Tanzania’s Alphonce Felix Simbu and Korir’s fellow Kenyan Cybrian Kotut.

6 days ago | slowtwitch.com | Ryan Heisler

Lots of small bites flowing through our notebook this week. Here’s the top-line items that we’ve pulled out. Two of the largest bike companies — Giant and Specialized — have started seeing impacts to their business as a result of tariffs. We start with Giant, which announced that shipments of bikes in March declined over 5% year-over-year. That comes on top of March 2024 representing a 17.4% decline in year-over-year business.

1 week ago | slowtwitch.com | Ryan Heisler

Yesterday IRONMAN released key data and research findings across the landscape of the sport, showing positive trend lines in participation but also some of the first concrete data we’ve had on barriers of entry to triathlon. It’s a report that provides reassurances that we could be in for the next growth phase in our sport, but it also highlights the potential high-water marks that we may hit without changes in how we, collectively, as stakeholders approach the sport.

1 week ago | slowtwitch.com | Ryan Heisler

It’s been a busy week for the scrapbook with lots of interesting nuggets spread out. Here’s what we pulled out of the news cycle this week. ROKA is moving strongly back to its roots in multisport in 2025, making investment in both product and athletes within triathlon. To that end, this week they announced a four-year deal with IRONMAN 70.3 and T100 World Champion Taylor Knibb. The deal will see Knibb wear ROKA’s wetsuits, swim skins, and goggles going forward, after a lengthy time with 2XU.

1 week ago | slowtwitch.com | Ryan Heisler

Having been in the footwear game now for nearly two full decades (editor’s note: Good Lord, it’s been that long?!?!), we’ve seen a lot of swings in footwear. We’ve ridden waves, from the original generation of Nike Free to minimalism to “natural running” to maximalism to the flood of carbon plated footwear that now makes up the majority of shoe walls today. You’d be forgiven for being confused by shoes today.