Not every multisport athlete is able to swim, bike or run without some accommodation due to injury, congenital health condition or disease. But the balance between allowing everyone to participate in “the multisport lifestyle” and protecting the competition from unfair advantage means that USA Triathlon (“USAT”), the governing body of the sport, must balance safety…
Continue readingLast year, we wrote about a woman who drove her car on the W&OD trail, hitting a cyclist and sending other trail users diving into the bushes for safety. Click here to read the full post. At the time the driver was charged with driving while intoxicated and felony hit-and-run. We have just learned that…
Continue readingThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a recall on NRS water sports helmets because the rivets holding the chin strap to the helmet can fail, allowing the helmet to fall off in an incident. This poses a risk of head injury. If you purchased this helmet between April 21, 2014 and July…
Continue readingSimilar to visiting the scene of a crash or checking out the courthouse, Herndon injury lawyer Doug Landau traveled to Bethany Beach, Maryland several days early in order to scout out the course for this popular late season multisport event. Set on the Eastern Shore up the road from Ocean City, Maryland, the Bethany Beach…
Continue readingBecause they must take in large amounts of water, the filters used to keep community swimming pools clean must have safety caps, otherwise they are capable of sucking out internal organs of a small child ! In fact this is just what happened in a horrific fatal injury case handled recently by a friend of…
Continue readingSunday’s 5th Annual Northern Virginia Cycle Fest was a challenging event with cyclists getting to see many different Fairfax County, Arlington, Falls Church and Annandale neighborhoods. The JCC Fairfax Bike Tour benefitted the Wounded Warriors Project and WABA (Washington Area Bicycling Association). Before bikers departed from the JCCNV on Little River Turnpike, they were given…
Continue readingThe pelting rain, wind and cold convinced Melissa Landau to consider wearing her full body wetsuit on the bike portion of the Savageman Triathlon Saturday morning ! Presently in 4th place out of 161 athletes in her age group, Mrs. Landau was looking forward to swimming in the clear Deep Creek Lake, riding the challenging…
Continue readingAs a follow-up to the National Football League (NFL) lawsuit in which former players accuse the league of using painkillers to mask athletes’ injuries so the players could “play through the pain”, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is now investigating who distributed and provided those drugs. (Read more in a Washington Post article.) At Abrams…
Continue readingTriathlon teams from William & Mary, George Washington University, Georgetown, George Mason University, University of Virginia, James Madison University, Marymount, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech and other Mid-Atlantic region schools battled it out this weekend for bragging rights at the Virginia Triathlon Series Williamsburg Sprint Triathlon. “There were so many athletes with ages 18-24 on…
Continue readingThe Mad Dash 5K , 10K & Mini Dashes are an annual tradition in Rhinebeck New York. They start on the main street of the town, had accurate mile markers and the 3.1 miler followed a mostly shady “out & back” course (so athletes could see their competition at the turnaround). These charity races, founded in…
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