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Monday, 30 April 2012 05:00
TAKE THE HILL TRIATHLON Coverage - Paul Mollett's post race celebrations typically feature a thick, rare steak and 8-10 Mickey's Big Mouths. Interestingly, this behavior is not restricted to just his satisfying performances. He celebrates all of his racing efforts, the good, the bad and the unattractive, in this carnivo-alcoholic way. Paul believes that racing is in-and-of-itself a "good thing," even when one's performances suck.
Last Saturday at the Take the Hill Triathlon in soggy, chilly St. Peter, Paul recorded his first career multisport victory, a hard-fought, totally non-sucky result that placed him only nine seconds in front of runner-up Ryan Welle. Exuberant, though he is rarely not exuberant, Paul drove back to Chaska immediately after the race with images of scorched bovine flesh and hops and grain playing on all the screens in his
Cinco du Taco...
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Monday, 30 April 2012 03:30
Race Preview - A record turn-out is expected for next Saturday's Cinco du Mayo Duathlons at beautiful Square Lake. The races hope to lure 300+ total participants and are well on their way to accomplishing that. And according to The Weather Channel, the high and low temps in the Stillwater area for May 5 are expected to be 72 and 56 respectively under partly cloudy skies, which is the glass-half-empty way of saying partly sunny skies. It the forecast holds, conditions will be perfect for du-ing.
Cinco Du features a long course race (5K-20m-5K), which is celebrating its 5th anniversary on Saturday, and a shorty (2-10-2), that is turning three. The event also features post-race tacos (and other great Mexican munchables) that are nothing short of nummilicious. Not signed up yet? Click on the graphic (L) to go to the race's reg. page.
A glance at the current list of enrollees has gotten us excited. Several of our region's top athletes will be there and, as always, more can be expected to show as race day nears. The women's field looks especially stout, featuring the participation of 2011 Rookie of the Year Ruth Brennan Morrey, two-time Cinco Long Course champion...
Weekend Racing Highlights....
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Monday, 30 April 2012 03:00
Twas a huge weekend for Minnesota multisporters. Check out the storylines:
* Minneapolis' Dan Hedgecock (photo L) was the overall amateur winner at St. Anthony's Triathlon in Florida today. His 1:53:15 is the fourth-fastest time in the 29 year history of the race. Following Dan's stellar 2011 season, today's performance is a powerful predictor--Dan just may be the nation's top amateur triathlete this year. More story to follow. Results
* Parish is USAT Duathlon National Champion. Payne podiums, too. More to come...Results
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MAKING LUCK...
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Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:30
By Tom Demerly (for usatriathlon.org)
This USA Triathlon Multisport Lab article is presented by TriSports.com
Have you ever known an athlete afflicted by everything from bee stings to forgotten equipment, bike crashes, blisters and missed wave starts? Bad luck seems to follow them. If something can go wrong, it does for them.
The opposite is the athlete who races and trains like an accountant. Everything is tabulated, check listed, prepared and re-checked. For them preparation and racing is a well-charted movement from point A to point B. Organized athletes experience a lower level of anxiety and spend less mental energy worrying.
One of the greatest performance coaches ever, author Steven Covey of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People coined the phrase
