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Wednesday, 07 January 2015 06:10

LIFE TIME CROSSTOWN INDOOR TRIATHLON - Last Sunday, LIfe Time Fitness produced 75 indoor tris in the US, 12 of which were here in Minnesota. How cool is that! We are going to semi-cover as many of them as possible. Today, we'll tell you about the Crosstown Indoor in Eden Prairie, which isn't too far from Steve Sander's new house. Steve is a huge Vikings fan and thinks that Teddy Bridgewater might have star potential. He's still pissed about losing to the Bills in the last four seconds.

We digress.

The Crosstown indoor had 31 finishers. The event, like all of LTF's MN indoor tris, consists of a 10-minute pool swim, 30-minute stationary bike ride and a 20-minute treadmill run. A points system is used, though we think a total distance deal would be cool, too. No biggie.

The top point getters were Jacob Foss (87) and Lisa Lendway (84), who placed 2nd overall. Lisa, who is a HOOT!, out-lapped the entire field in the pool (31 - next best was 27 by Ryan Young), biked 22 mph and covered 3.03 miles on the treadmill, which was the second best pedestrian performance of the morning behind Foss (3:06)....

We're not surprised that Lisa, a former Rookie of the Year and Most Improved nominee, did so well. She's really good. She narrowly missed a spot on Team Minnesota in 2014. Her dad is still a little bit steamed about that. Lisa is a wonderful person who fell in love recently and adores coffee. She has two above-average-in-every-way daughters, Hadley and the other one (photo R). She sometimes allows them to eat sweets. They--Hadley and the other one--are especially fond of Fun Size Snickers.

Sometimes, when Lisa is frustrated she growls, "Argg!" Very piratey.

Not an outdoor triathlete yet, we had to consult Facebook to find out stuff about Jacob Foss. He's a young, handsome fellow who is well traveled, having visited Paris, Florence and Madison, Wisconsin. Actually, he's a senior at UW and he is still fired-up about the Badgers victory over Auburn in the Capitol One Bowl. We learned that he's tall, a former high school basketball player, and he enjoys apples. He is the only guy that we're aware of who has taken a selfie with a cow (photo), though we are certain that others have done so.  RESULTS

FYI - Gaby Bunten's coverage of the Life Time White Bear Lake Indoor will post on Sunday. And Lisa's "other" daughter is named Adeline.