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Wednesday, 02 October 2013 00:10
(Photos L - R - Repeat JOY nominees, Greta Danielson and Mata Agre.)
MInnesota Multisport Awards - When determining nominations the MMA Selectors compare the performances of potential candidates with the standard-setting efforts in the various categories. To get nominated in the Male Masters category, for instance, one would have to approach, match or exceed the...
Best of the Best...
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Monday, 30 September 2013 05:10
(Photo - Perennial TOY nominee, Cathy Yndestad.)
MInnesota Multisport Awards - Here are the official nominees for 2013 Female Triathlete of the Year:
SUZIE FOX (30, Chaska - photo below L)
Winner of three prior MMAs (Rookie of the Year, Duathlete of the Year, Most Improved), this is Suzie's 2nd TOY nomination. Fox won four tris this season and podiumed in three others....
On Bended Knee......
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Monday, 30 September 2013 03:10
By Dan Hedgecock (danhedgecock.blogspot.com)
Big news, Claire and I are engaged! Since I haven't had any race news since Chicago I thought it'd be fun to put up a few pictures of our trip out to Colorado. We left last week and stopped for a night in Badlands National Park. Kevin has recently fallen in love with Custer State Park and tried to convince us to stop there, but we just used the stop to break up the 14 hour drive. We had a little time to climb around some of the formations. From the Badlands into Colorado we had to cross the South Platte River which has been flooding because of the heavy rains in the front range. After a quick stop in Denver we...
Oops!
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Sunday, 29 September 2013 11:10
MInnesota Multisport Awards - In 2005, Julie Hull was not among the original nominees for Most Improved Female. Her name was added later after the MMA Selectors had a second opportunity to study her resume. Guess what? Julie won the MI trophy that year.
The same could happen this year, too. Four nominees for female MI were announced on MTN last Thursday. Since then, the Selectors have discovered that they were working with an incomplete bio for Bridget McCoy. The results that were reviewed did not include her runaway victory at Hy-Vee Olympic "People's" Triathlon and her bronze medal effort at Rev 3 Wisconsin Dells. When these efforts were ....
Full Montys & One-and-Done
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Sunday, 29 September 2013 10:50
By Nick McCulloch
(Photo credits: Kelly McCulloch, Megan McCulloch and some random people using our cell phone cameras.)
Ironman Lake Tahoe Race Report Overall impressions: Absolutely stunning venue and it was a great place to both race and vacation. This is definitely not the place to ever go fast... ever (ever). There were quite a few hiccups, probably since it was the inaugural edition. I'm glad I did it but for this course, I'm one and done.
Before the race: My wife Megan (who raced as well) and family spent 5 days before the race staying on the lake and we had a chance to bike, run, and swim much of the course. The weather was nice and the water was always very pleasant for training. The visibility is shocking - at least 60 feet and you can see all types of sea life from trout to crayfish. I increased my Gatorade consumption, not to hydrate for the race, but so I had enough bottles to build and deploy an extensive network of crayfish traps filled with bacon hoping to catch some of the 280 million that live in Tahoe... but that effort was unsuccessful. Part of the bike course was not accessible for the week leading up since it...
