Race Coverage

$100 Tree City...

Monday, 26 July 2010 07:52

hoot What do you know about Fergus Falls, Minnesota?

Not much, huh?

We know lotsa stuff about it. It's a town. It's in Minnesota and the Hoot Lake Triathlon (photo) is there. Or somewhere near there?

What else?

Did we say mention that it's somewhere in Minnesota? And that it's a town?

Realizing that we don't know too darn much about Fergus Falls, we Googled it. Here's some totally cool historical stuff we found:

"In 1857, Wiley Cloversheets * was sent by his employer, Langford Fergus* , to locate a site for a new community. Along the way he...

You Shoulda Been There...

Sunday, 25 July 2010 16:43

The Chisago Lakes Half and Sprint was ginormous, drawing more than 1600 participants. The day was clear and and sunny relatively windless and waited until most of the half racers had de-biked before it became truly calefacient, which is a pedantic way to say "hot." The temps never out-calefaciented the competition, however. The talent pool was deep and the rivalries were almost incendiary. DKT and Madison, Wisconsin's Jackie Arendt, who is arguably the premier female amateur long distance in the U.S. right now, led the way in the half. Patrick Parish and Jenny Wilcox destroyed the sprint course records. RESULTS

To be continued...Hey click on "Read More" and check out the picture we planned to post in the event that 2009 CL-Half winner Heather Haviland had raced today. It's totally cool. She's doing bike presses. She didn't race today because she had a "thing" she had to do...

DKT Leading...

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 16:07

St. Paul's David Thompson currently leads the men's Race to the Toyota Cup points standings. He's raced in the first three Life Time Fitness Tri Series events, finishing 2nd at Philadelphia and New York City and taking 7th at Life Time Fitness-Minneapolis.

For more details and current Cup Standings, visit TriJuice.com LINK

Photo - DKT with female Toyota Cup Points Leader Rebeccah Wassner.

Lenarz PRz...

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 05:00

Apple Valley's Jen Lenarz turned in the fastest half IM performance of her career at Door County last weekend. Her 4:56:39 landed her in 7th place among a very strong women's elite field. Her time was 6:24 faster than her previous half best, which was turned in a runner-up effort at Liberty last month..

Highlights Aplenty..

Monday, 19 July 2010 09:22

SUZIE PATRICK woody

There were highlights aplenty at the historic 25th edition of the Heart of the Lakes Triathlon / Minnesota State Triathlon Championship in pastoral Annandale yesterday. Some, like Jan Guenther winning for the ninth time, were BIGGIES, and others, like the blue toenailed Guenther (yes, she was unshod at the time) doing the "Pee Pee Dance" in the porta-john line before the event,