Race Coverage

The Lay's Potato Chips of Triathlons...

Wednesday, 03 July 2013 01:10

(Photo - Queen Reilly, King Isaac and Amy, who is an UBER-HOOT!)

Croixathlon VIII - On a weekend acned with multisport events, approximately 200 of our region's swim-bike-runners descended on Camp St. Croix south of Hudson, Wisconsin to participate in the 8th annual Croixathlon, which is arguably the "funnest" triathlon in the upper Midwest. It starts with its buccaneery theme, played lovingly to the hilt by race directors Amy and Gretchen and the other woman whose name we can never remember. All three of those ladies purposely

deepest men's field in the history of the race and his ultimate margin of victory over runner-up Brett Lovaas, who crushed the course record at Blaine last May, was 30 seconds. Thaddeus Ingersoll took third. Thad's impressive racing this year is reminiscent of his breakout season in 2011.