Ultraman Hawaii is, as many triathletes know, one of the longest and hardest triathlons on the planet. Even just completing the course is daunting not to mention, actually racing it!

The race offers the unique opportunity of three separate days that will take you around the Big Island and offer a taste of pretty much everything the island has in store of terms of terrain, weather, scenery and challenges.

by Jonas Colting

I'm writing about Naked Health in my latest book and have divided chapters into Naked Training, Naked Food and so forth, with the word "naked" working as a metaphor for something primal, genuine and unspoiled. There's no chapter on Naked Racing though. The truth is that this wouldn't be a metaphor but rather something from real life. I've raced naked. Literally. With just a pair of goggles.

Let me tell you, goggles alone won't make you feel dressed!

by Jonas Colting

I often tend to make easy things more complicated. Fortunately I´m aware of this personality flaw and when the tendency for me to complicate things does occur I´m in the habit of audit and I scrutinize this behavior. It´s not so much a flaw as a side effect of ambition and the need for being on the upslope of development and the learning curve. It really doesn´t matter if something is good when good always can be better and if the speed isn´t high enough there´s hopefully another gear to shift into and straighten out the curves and bends in the process.

by Jonas Colting

This great dish is enjoyed just as much for dessert as for breakfast. There's no added sugar as the stevia (which is a natural sweetener much sweeter than sugar but with no calories, hence no insulin response) sweetens the deal and the rest of the ingredients are all organic and non-refined. I even grow the rhubarbs in my own backyard!

by Jonas Colting

They say that diligence is a virtue. I don´t know who coined that expression but he was probably not that great of an athlete.

Any successful endurance athlete knows that, on the contrary, excess is a virtue. And it’s something to prefer... to exaggerate to the point of going overboard.

by Jonas Colting

Jonas gives us his latest culinary masterpiece.

by Jonas Colting

I live vicariously through my dreams and yearnings. Dreams of new horizons. Yearnings of the simplest of days where the road itself is the goal. To move between two dots on the map under the steam of my own engine. The adventure disguised in a workout.

by Jonas Colting

This is a great recipe for those who love pancakes but who want a healthier alternative without grains and milk!

by Jonas Colting

My brother Fredrik, who is three years younger than me, is the best athlete in the Colting family.

Granted, I´m the professional triathlete who spends all day whipping my body around the trails and roads, but my brother also works out at least once, and often twice, per day.

I´m the one with several World Championship medals but my brother is the one that has the ability to work out the smartest and really never needs to push himself across and beyond pain barriers where athletic pursuit can break a person and where the fine line between health and fitness gets blurred.

Jonas Colting shares his recipe for a healthy treat: "Colting's Cocoa and Coconut Snack."

Jonas Colting offers us his quick and easy recipe for "World Class Primal Salad with Salmon."

by Jonas Colting

I´m in San Diego for a long training camp. And it feels right. Not just because the sun always shines in southern California at a time when the snow still piles up back home.

And I´m not exactly disheartened by the shimmering ocean view from the balcony or the mountain backdrop featuring stunning roads and endless trails. Triathlon is in the air! And that´s why it feels just right! And the feeling is there because a few pioneers were struck with the same impulses some 35 years ago right here in San Diego and that became the humble beginnings of our sport. Not that they were aware; they just figured it´d be cool to mix in a swim during those beach runs, and since they were riding their bikes everywhere already, it was a done deal. Some time later a few of these individuals moved to Hawaii and drank too much beer a night after a running race and ironman was born.