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Ben's First Race of 2013...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 01:10

ED. Ben Ewers is a three-time Minnesota Grand Master of the Year.

LEADMAN 125 EPIC MARQUEE, first TRI of 2013 season (Race day account)

By Ben Ewers (benewers.blogspot.com)

Yesterday (4/14/13) I raced the Leadman 125, hosted by Lifetime Fitness. Tempe Town Lake, Lifetime, and Red Rock Racing hosted a whole weekend series of races starting with the Collegiate Draft Legal Championships on Friday, the Collegiate non-drafting Championships on Saturday, and three triathlons run concurrently on Sunday (a Sprint, Olympic distance, and the 125K). Amazingly, Red Rock and Lifetime pulled off a very excellent Tri Festival, especially challenging as it took place in an urban setting.

The 125K race is an attempt to host an equivalent to a half Ironman that doesn't leave you with as much of a post-race hangover. Consequently it has a slightly longer swim (2.5K), longer bike (109.5K), and shorter run (13K) compared to a half Ironman. The theory is that it's the run that leaves the most post-race hangover. It takes about the same total time to complete. Judging from how I feel this...

"Six Pack Girl"...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013 01:10

girls In the last two weeks MTN had posted stories about guys who not so long ago had set performances standards in our region. But life and circumstances and general stuff has gotten in the way. As a result, those guys--Curt Wood and Jeremy Sartain--are no longer visible and felt presences on our racing scene. Both plan to return. We wish we could tell you when that would be. Soon, we hope.

Check out the photo (L), which was taken at the Buffalo Triathlon in 2005. What do you see?

You probably know that the girl on the left with the awesome guns is Julie Hull. Most folks in our community recognize her because she's so dang good....

Be Careful Out There...

Monday, 15 April 2013 01:10

Let's Be Careful Out There.... (thank you, Phil Esterhaus)

By Amy Bauch (http://amysrunningaround.blogspot.com)

Spring is in the air and it it time to get the bike off the trainer and back on the road!

NOT!

I write this on April 11th -- a date far enough along the calendar that we SHOULD be able to be out on the roads, but alas, in case you haven't heard, Minneapolis (and much of the midwest) has been the victim of a very lousy spring. Rain, cold, wind followed by more rain, cold, wind and today -- yes, today, the city received 7 - 10 inches of wet, heavy snow.

What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time, the weather was warm, lakes were open, people were out on bikes, and golfing and living large....

Heartrate Monitor Relevance...

Sunday, 14 April 2013 01:10

Some experts believe that power meters and speed and distance devices have made heart rate monitors irrelevant.

By Matt Fitzgerald

Heart rate monitors took the endurance sports world by storm in the early 1990s. The practice of heart rate monitoring appealed to cyclists, runners and triathletes as a way to make their training more precise and scientific. By the late