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Minnesota's June Triathletes of the Month!

Wednesday, 05 March 2025 00:10

Here are MTN's picks for June 2024 ATHLETES OF THE MONTH:

OVERALL AOMs - PRESTON YOUNGDAHL & ELENA JASPER (photo)

Two-time Minnesota Triathlete of the Year, Preston Youngdahl entered three races--Apple Tri, Trinona Olympic & Lake Minnetonka--thus far in 2024, and won each time. Jasper has also raced three times, winning twice --Lake Minnetonka and Clearwater Olympic--and setting a 70.3 personal best (4:47:40) at Chattanooga 70.3.

JUNIOR OF THE MONTH - NOAH BILLINGS, 18

Minnesota's two-time Junior of the Year is a profific racer. Thus. far this season, he has two overall wins plus two junior wins in races in which he finished 2nd overall....

Teddie's Taper Tricks...

Monday, 06 January 2025 00:10

ED. We recently discovered a guest post written by MInnesota pro triathlete Ted Treise. It was posted on pickybars.com in July, 2018. It's good stuff!

By Ted Treise

If I were to do a self-assessed pros & cons list of my tri skills, tapering would lead the cons column in bold, a font size or two bigger, and underlined. I hate the taper. It’s a perfect storm for the monkey mind to dart into 10,000 different directions fueled by the extra energy that comes with reduced training stress and the excitement/ pre-race jitters. Examples of typical monkey mind paths include but are not limited to: ...