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Former Pro Firer & Fries Super-Sizer...

Wednesday, 02 March 2011 03:00

Going Off Course - Have you seen the movie "Up in the Air"? Terrific film! It's about a totally handsome guy--George Clooney--who travels from city to city and fires people. That's his job. He's a Professional Firer. He also meets this hot woman--Vera Farmiga--with great hair and an amazing...

We digress.

That movie could have been about St. Louis Park triathlete Mitchel (one "L") Talbot. Yup, Mitchel is a former pro firer. Or as he might have call himself: a Corporate Downsizer Guy....

Triathlete Home Finder Guide...

Tuesday, 01 March 2011 03:30

laura By Warren Peece

Our All Time favorite triathlete / Realtor is Laura Sampsell Hoffman. Why? Because she advertises on MTN. And because she's totally cute and sweet and interesting, too. (see hot photo L)

Over coffee I explained to Laura that my house sucks. When MY WIFE bought the place she did not take into account all the little things that are important to me as a triathlete. Nor did she enlist the aid of a Realtor who was also an endurance athlete. Instead, she based her selection of a house on criteria that was important to HER, i.e. that it was close to a good elementary school, Cub and Leeann Chin....

Darin Q's, Dave A's...

Tuesday, 01 March 2011 02:00

(Photo - Dave Schutz with son, Kaler)

Q&A with NEW Life Time Fitness Minneapolis Triathlon Race Director Dave Schutz

By Darin Wieneke

The Life Time Fitness Minneapolis Triathlon is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. If you have experienced this race in the past, you know that Life Time is to Minnesota triathlon what the Academy Awards is to actors. Lifetime is about as glitzy and glamorous as it gets in our triathlon scene. There is a buzz that you start to feel at packet pick-up at the Minneapolis Convention Center, it continues the morning of the race when you witness the sea of bikes in transition, and it reaches a near peak when some of the top professional triathletes in the world toe the line....