Race Coverage
The Greatest Performance in Apple History......
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Monday, 26 May 2014 03:10
By Tyler Buckintine (sctimes.com)
Training sometimes takes up an average of 15 hours of his week and he spends a lot of time on the road competing at duathlons and triathlons around the nation.
"My profession is being a professional triathlete and I basically started racing pro right after grad school," Thompson said. "I just race and I travel a lot. It's a lot of training. It flexible but there's no days off. I also do daddy daycare."
Thompson hadn't participated in the Apple Duathlon since 2010, the last year of his four-year win streak. He also won the race in 2004 and 2005....
Patrick Parish, 29, of Bloomington, took second place (1:22:42.74). Parish won the 2012 Apple Duathlon.
"David had about 15 seconds on me at (the first transition) and he just slowly pulled away," Parish said. "I was probably about a minute and a half behind at (the second transition) so the gap was just a little too big for me." READ MORE
APPLE NOTES:
- The top 3 men on Saturday--David Tompson, Patrick Parish and Dan Hedgecock--have won 10 of the 11 races that have been contested on Apple's present course. The only other men's champ during this eleven year period was Nez Zealand pro Will Smith, who won in 2006.
- Bob Powers (photo above) became the first nine-o-genarian (USAT age - Bob turns 90 on June 28) to finish a Minnesota multisport event! How awesome is that! Apple did not have an award for his AG, so organizers (and Gear West Bike and Triathlon), presented him with an awesome birthday cake that he (Bob) shared with everyone. It was yummy.
- Our records indicate that David's win was the 88th of his multisport career. For Ruth Brennan Morrey, it was her 15th career win (in 28 starts) and 9th (at least) course record.
- In our humble opinion, Ruth Brennan Morrey's 1:26:28 is clearly the Performance of the Year by a Minnesotan thus far. We believe that is also the greatest single performance in Apple history. It not only redefined Apple's elite performance range for women, it did so for men, too. The average gender time differential between male and female winners at Apple prior to Saturday's race was just over twelve and a half minutes. DKT's 1:21:33 last weekend was the seventh fastest men's clocking in course history, but only 4:55 faster than Ruth's time. (Photo L with Carolyn Franzone)
- Ruther's Splits - 5K Run - 17:09 - 33K Bike - 50:25 - 5K Run - 17:54
