Race Coverage

Diane's Awesome Double...Updated

Sunday, 08 August 2010 17:13

Paynesville Coverage -

Lino Lakes' Diane Hankee has done something this season that no other Minnesota multisporter has done: Win two races on the same weekend! And she significantly overhauled the womens course records in both events. On Saturday she took a five minute-ish bite out of the CR at squishy Lakefront Days. Today (Sunday) she masticated 11 minutes from the old mark at irriguous Paynesville.

Her breath must smell like Victory.

Her win today was not without peril. Her husband Mike, who rocked a 3rd place overall finish, kicked her in the face during the swim. Through a wry grin afterwards, he claimed the incident was accidental. She's still steamed. Her wound was not quite as extensive or gruesome as the one in the photo, but we posted the shot because we liked it and we don't have a pic of Diane's traumatized physiognomy....

Paynesville's mens winner was Robert Brown, who has a totally cool and pretty wife (Dana) who is an amazingly gifted teacher (she works with autistic kids). He lowered the guy's CR by two-plus minutes. Several AGers also significantly edited some records.

Despite the irriguous