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An Intimate Event...
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:30
Event Coverage - The first of this year's OptumHealth Performance Indoor Tris (Jan. 22) was an intimate event, drawing 14 participants, all of whom made friends, got a great workout and later went out for pancakes.
The second OHP event, which was staged at their Eden Prairie facility last Sunday, was even intimater. Nine people registered and seven eventually participated. Our guess is that they all enjoyed the experience even though Coach Kris, who is a total hoot!, was in San Diego doing unspecified, yet vitally important stuff.
Here are the results and some Facebooky stuff about some of the participants.
ERIC BOYUM - 500 yd swim (7:45) - 5-mile Bike (18:00) - 2 mile run (15:14) - 40:59 -
* Eric likes wine and basketball. He speaks Spanish, but not all the time. He plays golf sometimes and his favorite TV show is "South Park," which is really irreverent and funny....
Pool Jams....
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 02:00
By Erika Sperl-Imhoff (from http://www.thetriathlonrx.com)
For Christmas in 2009 I was given the NuDolphin mp3 player to help encourage more frequent swimming. Two years later it finally bit the bullet. Now at first thought, two years might not seem like a long time for the life of an mp3 player. But lets face it: electronics + submersion in water = just not meant to be. I was happy with the two years I got out of the NuDolphin. One thing I wasn
Food and Wiffle Ball...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:00
Going Off Course - Waconia teacher / baseball guy / triathlete who doesn't dive very well, Dan Chies (pronounced "Chess;" it's a Castilian deal), has big calves and small ears, which he claims are features that chicks really dig. Also, he used to be about 50 pounds heavier than he is now, a condition he remedied by becoming an addicted triathlete.
Dan, 29, is in a relationship right now, which means that he's not married yet and thus still lives kinda like a college student. If he does get hitched it is likely that his spousal unit will insist that he put his laundry away in a timely fashion and, for godsakes, stop drinking out of the carton.
Dan's taste in music is rather eclectic, featuring hard metal and belligerent hip hop, though it does not include country. When researching his musical preferences we landed on "10 Years'" website. Heretofore unfamiliar with their stuff, we were soon blown away by "Beautiful," a brilliant slam on societally encouraged vanity, and the awesome "Wasteland," which deals with ....
Backwards Ticking Clock...
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Monday, 20 February 2012 02:00
By Bonnie Breatholder
Recently the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race lottery draw occurred. Many hopefuls were anxiously waiting at their computers, drumming nervous fingers on their desks, furiously instant messaging friends who had also put their names in the hat. Some of them even had queasy stomachs, unable to tear themselves away from the looming announcement even so much as use the bathroom; their eyes were burning holes into their computer screens. That
