Race Coverage

Ben & Lauren Take the Hill...

Wednesday, 07 May 2014 00:10

TAKE THE HILL TRIATHLON - Ben Trnka is a fine young man who parts his hair on the right. He got married to a lovely girl who looks kinda like awesome actress Amy Adams (photo L) last summer and he is still very happy.

Ben also won last Saturday's Take the Hill Triathlon in St. Peter, and assuming that the distances haven't been altered, he did so in record time. His groovy time was 1:00:13, which lowered Mike Torchia's five-year-old CR by 37 seconds. Additionally, he was 3:01 faster than runner-up Nick Weiler, who also made the podium here in 2013. Nick was so inspired by the Winter Olympics that he did the City of Lakes Loppet which gave him major beard-cicles (photo below).

Third place for the guys went to Nate Sanders (1:03:23), who is a doctor and, like Ben and Nick, a totally good guy. Nate went to Florida a few months ago, probably to scope out some future retirement locales....

The women's race record was also crushed, thanks to Amy Hannaman (1:08:41), who had to fend off Meredith Bache-Wiig (1:08:43) and Breanna Schlegel (1:08:43). Amy is into "Kings of Leon" (Who isn't?) and "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon" (Who isn't?).

Meredith Bache-Wiig may or may not be related to the amazing Kristin Wiig. We hope that she is. She is on the nordic ski team at Gustavus Adophus.

Schegel is into romantic comedies and Kanye West.

This year's Take the Hill Triathlon had 67 finishers. RESULTS

MAJOR OOPS! - This post is based on pre-adjusted women's results. The real podium finishers were Lauren Slagel, who has won the last four eitions of this race, her sister Clare, whose time was identical (1:15:57) to Lauren's and Jenate Witte (1:18:08).