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"The Race of My Life"....
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Thursday, 20 September 2012 02:10
Hy-Vee 5150 US Champs Race Report - When I left my job at Target I dedicated everything I had to training and racing and spent the last two years relying on the help of friends and family to chase after the foolhardy dream of being a professional triathlete. Most of the time my life feels like a bi-polar disorder. Sometimes I'm training completely alone in the freezing cold pitch black of a Minnesota winter and sometimes I'm spending Monday afternoon riding my road bike on gorgeous rural roads with great friends. Sometimes I'm dropping huge chunks of time in training and doing workouts I couldn't have seriously considered just a....
Town Halls, Famous Water Fountains & Expectant Moms...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:10
Treadman Duathlon VII - The original Treadman Du was staged in the unincorporated community of Douglas, which is just a few miles north of Rochester. Home to almost 50 people, it has a saloon and, we're not making this us, a famous drinking fountain. The folks in Douglas must be a thirsty bunch.
The race stayed in Douglas for three years, then moved further north to the town of Pine Island, which is home to...
Michelle's Words...
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:30
(Awesome Nick Morales / TriJuice.com photo of Minnesota's fastest Ironwoman.)
By Michelle Andres
Before signing up for IMoo 2012 I made sure I had my family onboard and was willing to help me reach my goals. Lee even spent our 14th wedding anniversary in Madison working a run aid station so I could register the following day. This year it was our 15th year anniversary and we were back in Madison.
A little background
Kidd-ing Around....
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:10
(Photo - Angela Kidd doing that Kona thing.)
Fall Classic Duathlon - Minnesota's 2nd duathlon season--there's a spring calendar and one in the fall--is underway, the most recent contest being the 6th annual Fall Classic at Lake Elmo Park Reserve last Saturday. Many of our state's "usual suspect" duathletes -- Derick Podratz, Jennifer Scudiero, Nolan Barrios, Rick Wegener, Jen Strange--did their typically impressive run-bike-run thangs, but there was a new name that lanced the event's predictability as if it were a big, livid, festering boil.
Okay, that was an excessive, and totally unappetizing, simile. Sorry....
Leslie's Birthday & Constpated Computers....
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 02:10
(Photo - Suspected OLT winner Chris Sachs.)
One Last Tri VII - Did you see "Bridesmaids"? Yeah, it was a HOOT! Do you recall the scene when a gross sound escaped the body of obese, delusional Megan, wonderfully played by Melissa McCarthy, and she apologized, noting that she wasn't "100% certain which end that came out of"?
Well, we'd love to tell you with 100% accuracy how folks did at Sunday's One Last Tri at picturesque Big Marine Park near Scandia. But, as sometimes happens, there was a "timing thing." It's really technical and though we totally understand all the...
