Gear

Buying gear for a swimmer is harder than it looks if you don’t swim yourself. Goggles fog, caps rip, and half the accessories on Amazon look more like torture devices than training tools. The good news is that swimmers actually use a short, predictable list of gear, and most of it is cheap. If you’re

I bought the Favero Assioma Pro RL to put on my triathlon bike for a couple of specific reasons. My road bike is already running Look Keo pedals, and switching to a different cleat standard would have meant keeping two sets of shoes. A crank-based power meter wasn’t the right fit either, because with pedal-based

Choosing a GPS watch for triathlon used to mean defaulting to Garmin and spending whatever it cost. That’s no longer true. COROS and Suunto have both released genuinely capable mid-range watches that handle swim-bike-run transitions, dual-band GPS, and real training data. The hard part now is knowing which one is actually worth buying for how

The swim is the discipline most triathletes improve the least between races. A coach on deck helps, but most self-coached athletes never get that kind of feedback. Smart swim goggles put real-time data in your line of sight while you swim: pace, stroke rate, heart rate, and in open water, a compass that keeps you

Carbon plate running shoes have taken over race start lines. You see them on elite runners, age groupers, and, increasingly, people at their first 5K. The technology is real: the stiff plate and bouncy foam work together to return energy and keep your turnover high. The question is whether any of that translates into something

Most cyclists upgrade in the wrong order. They chase lighter components, swap handlebars, or spend hours agonising over saddle choices, when a few targeted changes would have made a much bigger difference for a fraction of the cost. These are the five road bike upgrades that are genuinely worth your money, ordered from the cheapest

Garmin launched the Forerunner 70 and Forerunner 170 on May 12, 2026. Both replace the watches that came before them — the Forerunner 55 and Forerunner 165 — and both land with more features than their predecessors at higher price points. The line between entry-level and mid-range is blurrier than ever. If you’re trying to

A good running watch doesn’t have to cost $600. The gap between budget and premium has closed a lot in the last few years. GPS accuracy, heart rate monitoring, structured workouts. You can get all of it without the price tag that makes you wince. If you’re trying to figure out which running watches on

Buying gear for a runner sounds easy until you realize they probably already own the essentials. The shoes are sorted. There’s a drawer full of race shirts they’ll never wear again. The GPS watch has been on their wrist since their third half marathon. What they’re missing is the stuff that fills the gaps: the

Shopping for a triathlete is harder than it looks. They’re particular about their gear, they’ve already bought the essentials, and if you get it wrong you’re basically giving them a paperweight. The good news: there’s a whole category of useful stuff that most triathletes want but never get around to buying themselves. These are the