FEATURES
Do Inhalers Make You Faster?
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Saturday, 18 January 2014 00:10
By Susan Lacke (triathlon.competitor.com)
Will using an asthma inhaler make you a better athlete? Some athletes believe the answer is yes — but science says no.
The asthma medications of interest in terms of performance are the bronchodilators (such as salbutamol, albuterol and formoterol), which open closed airways and relieve the symptoms of asthma, including shortness of breath and wheezing. However, some athletes obtain bronchodilators for off-label use, believing the medications will further relax the muscle linings of their healthy lungs and provide an advantage over other competitors....
Should Triathletes Get Liquored-Up?
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Thursday, 16 January 2014 06:10
(Great photo by Delly Carr)
By Pip Taylor (triathlon.competitor.com - Aug. 2012)
Research shows that in moderation, alcohol, particularly red wine, does carry some health benefits (in wine, it’s heart-healthy antioxidants). Formal recommendations for consumption are one drink per day for women and two for men, but it’s important to remember that everyone metabolises and tolerates alcohol differently. Some other common alcohol-related queries I hear from triathletes: ...
These Kids Are Golden....
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Thursday, 16 January 2014 00:10
By Coach Kris
The 2014 Optum Minnesota Junior Elite Team (MJET) would like to announce and congratulate the athletes of this year’s Gold Team. After a selective tryout process, 
the following four boys and four girls were selected;
· Trisha Bachmeier (photo below L wearing Penn kit)
· Jane Koch (photo R)
· Kayla Kjellman (photo L)
· Kristina Swenson (photo below R - wearing glasses)
· Phil English (photo below R - bike shorts)
· Daniel Felt
· Andy Hardt (photo below R with a girl)
· Jake Hiniker ...
Goal Levels...
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:10
By Mark Allen (xtri.com)
There is one thing I did every season before I even logged one second of training. I set my goals for the year. That started by first figuring out which were going to be my top key races and where they were in the race calendar. If I could I filled in the secondary events I would go to, but these were not the ones that would drive the overriding...
Martyrs, Chipmunks & Flip-Flops...
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Monday, 13 January 2014 06:10
Going "Off Course" - Carlton triathlete Jason Crisp was born and raised in a place that had only one tree. The place, which does not appear on maps, is a township, not a town, and is named, appropriately, "Lone Tree." The region has a scattered population of 25-ish folks, most of whom complain about the lack of shade.
In the pursuit of shade, and an education, Jason attended South Dakota State University in a great little city called Brookings. The town is not exactly carved from a forest, but lots of trees have been planted on its picturesque college campus, which delighted the shade-starved Jason Crisp, who heretofore had never seen sap.
Before moving to the relatively woodsy community of Carlton, Minnesota, which is near the heavily forested Jay Cooke State Park, Jason, according to his questionnaire, married Sheila Crisp. No, he did not marry a close relative, because that would be wrong, and Jason isn't one who does wrong stuff. We suspect that Sheila had a different last name before he married her. The fact that their many above-average-in-every-way children--Kylee, Katie, Tyler and Jared--do not possess any hideous genetic disfigurations, suggests that the partners were sufficiently unrelated before they got hitched....
