Race Coverage

Perfect Day for a Race...

Thursday, 03 September 2015 00:10

By Mike Aulie (Brainerddispatch.com - Aug. 31)

BAXTER - "Any race up north is a good race."

Those were the words of Larry Hosch, 37, from St. Joseph, who won the Lakes Country Triathlon Sunday with a time of 59:00 that shattered the best time from last year by nearly four minutes.

Olivia Bagnall, 24, from Lakeview, was the top female finisher traversing the quarter-mile swim, 14-mile bike ride and 3.2-mile run in 1:09.03.

Competitors agreed that it was a perfect day for a race with temperatures in the mid-60s under cloudy skies when the first wave of swimmers hit the water at Whipple Beach like lemmings abandoning ship.

Hosch was the fourth swimmer to come out of the water and took the lead after the bike ride going into the final run....

Finishing second overall for the men was 28-year-old Wade Cruser from Sauk Rapids who was on Hosch's heels for all three segments finishing just four seconds behind him in 59:04.

Hosch and Cruser have developed a friendship and were congratulating each other after the race.