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Friday, 03 May 2013 01:10
New Orleans 70.3 - Race Report
By Matthew Payne (mathew-payne.blogspot.com)
Holy crap, tri season really sneaked up on me this year. Since my DNF disaster at Vegas last September my head really hasn't been in the game. Training-wise I managed to string together a few 25,000+ yard weeks of swimming back in November/December, but then my shoulder blew up, taking me out of the pool altogether for a couple weeks and sharply limiting my volume thereafter. And then I got the flu in mid-January, which took me completely out of action for about a week and a half and felt like it took a solid month to really recover from. Our ass-tastic neverending Minnesota winter didn't exactly help things either.
Luckily everything started to come around by about mid-March and I started to feel more like my old self again. Next thing you know it's last Friday and I'm pulling the old Ordu down off of the hooks in the garage ceiling for literally the first time since September, only to immediately disassemble it and stuff it in a bag for a Saturday...
Mullet vs Mullet in Alex...
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Thursday, 02 May 2013 01:10
COLT PREVIEW - It's not like we're mad at Angie Hop (photo L), or anything. Sure, she promised to write a story about how Minnesotans did at Leadman Epic-125 - Tempe last month and totally didn't, though she sent us a photo (below) of the notes she made when she was flying home from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (Terminal #3).
Though we love Ang to pieces, we believe that she deserves to be punished. That's why we posted the shot of her with a totally real Billy-Ray-Cyrus mullet (L).
And that's why we are not going to pick her to repeat as champion at her hometown race this weekend. The race: The 12th annual Chain of Lakes Triathlon in Alexandria, the one in Minnesota, not the one in Egypt....
Fun in the Sunshine State...
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Wednesday, 01 May 2013 01:10
(Photo - This great shot of chronic smiler, Claire Bootsma, was taken by either Paul Phillips or Nick Morales. Check out their cool St. Anthony's Triathlon slide slow at triathlon.competitor.com.)
Race Coverage - It's fun to
Slinkies on a Staircase...
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Monday, 29 April 2013 03:10
(Chad May Photo -Fall's Du runner-up Brian Sames.)
Falls Duathlon Coverage - Records tumbled at the fifth annual Falls Duathlon last Saturday like Slinkies on a staircase. If you can think of a better simile, pretend that we used it here, okay?
Great weather may have had something to do with why the times were so fast.
It started with Devon Palmer, who is sporting the "Scruffy-But-Not-Quite-Homeless" look these days. He bracketed his signature bullet-fast bike split with un-signature-isticly brisk run splits, which he totally needed to do because his closest pursuers, 2012 Rookie of the Year runner-up, Brian Sames, which is pronounced "psalm-us," not "saymes," and three-time Falls winner Chad Millner, are fleet afoot guys....
No bull: YOU can set a WR at Buffalo
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Monday, 29 April 2013 01:20
And if you wear a funny hat, you'll be able to pick yourself out of the crowd in the aerial photo of you and 999 of your closest friends actually doing it!
A Guiness Book attempt for a good cause
"No one should drown in Minnesota," says Race Director Dr. Brett Oden and he couldn't possibly be more right. But of course they occasionally do. In fact Buffalo Lake was the site of an incident last summer in which two non-swimming parents lost control of their boat during launch, setting adrift their also non-swimming 4-year-old and leaving themselves entirely incapable of retrieving their exceedingly frightened child. Fortunately a member of Minnesota's own triathlon community [who shall remain nameless until we get
