Dolphins Save Surfer From Becoming Shark’s Bait

Triathletes do ponder sharks when they are swimming, and shark attacks are rare, but they do happen. Here is an incredible story...

A pod of bottlenose dolphins helped protect the severely injured boarder. Article from the Today show - By Mike Celizic

Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone.

That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.

“Truly a miracle,” Endris told TODAY’s Natalie Morales on Thursday. To read the entire article click here.~

San Diego Air Quailty Forecast And More

Triathletes across San Diego are wondering how much ash and particulate matter is in the air and when is it safe to start to work out.

You can check the air quality in San Diego here. After scanning the information about the air quality, I am going to wait until Monday before I start working out again. I've used air filters for a decade, and I recommend Bionaire air filters for your home, even when there are no fires - check them out here. You can check the tides in San Diego, here, the weather here, and the time of sunrise and sunset (and moonrise and set) in San Diego here. Of course, you can always check traffic here.~

Triathlete.tv - Triathlete Magazine's TV Channel Launches

Push play below to check out the the Nautica Malibu Triathlon broadcast of Episode 1 from Triathlete.TV! In this 15 minute mini-series, Triathlete Magazine takes you on a journey to Malibu Beach with host Mitch Thrower, where you will meet many celebrity triathletes including Andy Baldwin & David Duchovny. The Nautica Malibu Triathlon benefits the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.

Push play in the screen above and then you can just move your mouse over the screen to select a show, or click here to watch more shows from Triathlete Magazine's Triathlete.tv

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The Triathlete: Bill Bell

(photo: Bill Bell with Triathlete Magazine CEO, John Duke in Kona, Hawaii)

At 84, Bell is a man with an iron will.


"IN 1975, at age 53, Palos Verdes explosives manufacturer Bill Bell heard the 14 words that changed his life: "I want you to jog 40 minutes a day for three days a week."

A stress test had detected an irregular heartbeat, and the doctor felt that sustained aerobic activity such as running — not Bell's old love, golf — would fix the problem. So the man who hadn't worked out for 35 years ran. "And it felt so good that I came back and asked him if I could run every day," he says.

With the doc's nod, Bell immersed himself in.... To read the rest of this article in today's Los Angeles Times (click here)

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Run Along the Coast in La Jolla, CA - Motivational Thoughts

Photo: my dear friend and amazing athlete, Pumehana before a run in La Jolla

There is a saying, "What more could you want?" and it is often said when people get to a beautiful place, or have a great dinner, or find someone they are in love with -yet the human condition is successful because there are a whole bunch of us that are never satisfied, that always will want to seek, discover, build and learn more - a bit like a triathlete in a bike store.

I do my best to join daily the dreamers, the visionaries and the people who see things as they can be and places we can go. It it is beyond spectacular that we (mankind) looked up at the sky, saw the moon, and then said, "Let's go there." And with the materials we found here on this giant spinning rock that orbits a flaming sun, and the genius we found in our own minds, we forged the stuff that hurled humans into the sky, landed on the moon, let them take a stroll, a few pictures, some samples, make sure that there was no cheese, and verify that thee are not little people running around up there (if there were, it would have been imperative that we licensed an Ironman Race there before we came home - The Lunar Ironman, one giant leap beyond Xterra). It is likely that far more than half a billion of mankind's ideas ultimately let us fly to the moon.

There is something wonderful that happens when you start to do triathlons - you think more clearly. Clear thought comes partially from increased blood flow and partially from the clearing out of the dust from our mental and physical attic. What ideas are you considering, what Tri-spirtations do you have in your life, and for the lives of others. What is your dream, where would you land your lunar lander?

Today, I brought my video camera on my run along the La Jolla coastline so you could see what it is like here. Make the trip out here sometime for a triathlon or just a training week - it is part fantasy, and part reality.

It's amazing how, when you take time off, then start again - you can feel the difference. Today's short run along the coast felt as challenging as my mid-summer 10 and 20 mile training runs. It's time to get ready for some races. On my calender this year, pending work schedule... Honu, Canada and hopefully Hawaii, with some shorter races sprinkled in for the t-shirts.

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Part II of IRONMITCH

Sunset Photo of Mitch Thrower - Wind n Sea Beach near home in La Jolla, CA

Welcome to IRONMITCH Part II - a new chapter.

As the Ironmitch.com postings grew over the past year, readers said they wanted a new, clean - site that loads the most recent posts quickly - so here it is. To return to the original site with over 250 articles about triathlon, click here.

Are you ready for some motivation?

-Mitch