Arapahoe Basin will start charging for all parking lots for the first time. Every lot at the Colorado resort will now be $20 (at least) per vehicle on weekends and holidays, and reservations will be required. 　　Last year, the ski area was purchased by Alterra Mountain Company, owner of the Ikon Pass and Aspen Mountain, and the primary competitor to...

　　Theres a lot of new stuff coming out all the time, and we know you dont want to sift through it all. Thats why we put together the best outdoor products every week in our Emerging Gear column, where youll find the coolest threads, gadgets, or camping equipment coming soon to a shelf near you (or perhaps delivered by drone...

　　Many triathletes diligently work on improving their skills by performing drills yet find that when they return to full stroke swimming, nothing has changed.It can be an extremely frustrating and mystifying experience.The drills are supposed to improve your skills, but they don’t! 　　The issue isn’t necessarily that drills don’t work, it’s that they need to be used in the right...

　　If you’re trying to improve your swimming, it can be overwhelming to consider what you need to work on to reach your goals. 　　From a skill perspective, you have to worry about your kick, your pull, your breathing, your body position, and more. 　　From a training perspective, you have to worry about developing aerobic fitness, developing speed, preparing to race,...

　　There are some great drills than can make a huge impact on your swimming.And it’s my recommendation that you focus on using the best drills rather than using lots of different drills. 　　The problem with that approach is that doing the same drills can become boring, and worse still, they may no longer be able to continue to improve your...

　　The nonprofit Youth Sports Alliance charges scholarship recipients $50 for five weeks of ski gear, transportation, and lessons in Utah’s Wasatch Valley. Sounds like a steal, right? That’s what YSA executive director Emily Fisher thought, too, when she first arrived on staff six years ago. Then she got to work. 　　It was 2017, and Fisher was at an introductory meeting,...

　　While it seems like it should be one of the simpler skills to learn in swimming, improving the kick can prove to be quite the challenge for many triathletes. 　　While most of the speed and propulsion comes from the upper body in freestyle swimming, the legs can be important in assisting body position and well as creating some extra propulsion....

　　There are a couple of things to consider when trying to get rid of a stuffy nose after swimming. 　　Firstly, have you tried swimming in other pools or is this an issue everywhere you swim? And secondly, have you tried wearing a nose clip? 　　Why do I get a stuffy nose after swimming? 　　The main reason for nose and sinus...

　　Even the shortest triathlons are endurance events. That’s why triathletes spend most of their training time performing endurance swim activities.Longer is better! 　　And as most triathletes are aware, this can be a really effective strategy for cycling and running.The longer you go, the better you get.It’s no surprise then that many triathletes take the same approach to their swimming.The problem...

　　Outdoor lovers often balk at bringing ever more technology into the outdoors — but as I learned when field-testing a new drone, an eye in the sky can add fun and improve access to outdoor spaces. But its imperative to do so respectfully by following drone laws and regulations. 　　So, when bringing drones into the great outdoors, there are two...

　　The Ironman swim (3.8km) is less than 10% of the race, and it’s this fact that often encourages age-groupers, who are good bikers and/or runners, to move up to the longer distance. 　　If you asked age-group Ironman (IM) athletes to rate the relative importance of the disciplines, it may be something like this: 42% run, 44% bike and 14% swim....

　　All triathlons are races, and so it always comes down to speed, even in the longest races.You have to speed to compete successfully. 　　And while endurance training is rightfully the emphasis of most training programmes, some triathletes forget about speed altogether.Skill is also key, particularly learning to create more length with each stroke – but that gets overlooked, too. 　　So...