Featured triathlon Riders:
Ben Hoffman
Specialized Racing: USA Triathlon
My life in triathlon began when I was a university student in Missoula, Montana, in the fall of 2003. Looking for a way to get some fitness back from the halcyon days of youth when I played soccer, basketball, golf, and rock climbed, I jumped in with the squad and began the arduous journey of learning to swim
Nikki Butterfield
Specialized Racing: Long Course
What got you interested in Triathlons? I was a good runner throughout my school years and started to swim for cross-training because of a running injury. Around the same time my brother was picked up by the Queensland Academy of Sport Talent Search Program for cycling and I was jealous they didn't want to test me because I was outside of their age-range that they were looking for. Anyway, I thought 'I'll show them!' and went to my local pool and asked about their triathlon club. It was just coincidence the coach there was very full-on, and coached Loretta Harrop periodically. I jumped straight into their program which retrospectively was a huge workload for my training history at that point.
