Endurance athletes like to throw around words like "epic" or "legendary" when it comes to their races – any races – but when it comes to XTRI, "extreme" is no exaggeration. The race format originated ...

TJ Jimenez, a finisher of Norseman Xtreme triathlon, says the race has given him the ultimate test of grit, endurance, sportsmanship, and, more than anything, faith A 3,800-meter swim in ice-cold ...

Hårek Stranheim envisioned a triathlon in which “the experience would be more important than the finish time.” The nightmare dream came to life in 2003. The triathlon starts at 5 a.m. after a ferry ...

Last year, Anne Ahern Moore went to the Isklar Norseman Xtreme Triathlon in Norway as a coach. While there, she realized she wanted to do it herself. So last fall Moore applied to get in the ...

WAUSAU - The last running of Wisconsin's oldest triathlon will be held Aug. 3, its 40th competition of swimming, running and cycling. Organizers of the Woodson YMCA Triathlon say that decreased ...

When Norwegian WRC driver Andreas Mikkelsen decided to tackle his first elite triathlon, he picked the one of the toughest. Here he relives the pain to tell us about his epic Norseman challenge. Along ...

The Middle East is home to many overseas Filipino workers, but what sits entrenched in the urban oases of Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi are stories with an equally grand scale. One such case is ...

The telephone rings. It's my friend Alan. "Do you want the bad news or the really bad news?" he asks. With a week to go until we tackle the Norseman, the world's toughest long-distance triathlon, I'm ...