Race Coverage

Dauer Does it Again...

Monday, 02 May 2016 06:10

32nd Morris Tinman - Team Minnesota's Sheena Dauer kicked off her breakout season in 2015 with a convincing win at the Morris Tinman's Olympic-ish Distance Triathlon. It was like deja vu all over again for Dauer last Saturday when she repeated as Tinman champ, and recorded her, according to our records, fifth multisport win since her first one on August of 2014 at Green Lake.

Sheena was joined in T-Man's winners circle by Paul Wymar, who like Dauer, made the 50.32 mile drive (distance-cities.com) from Montevideo, which is a good bar town (Topper's, Duggy's, Inn Like Flinn et al). Paul, who is a forestry guy who knows more about geomorphology than most folks, was also victorious here in 2014. FYI, He did some time in The Peace Corps and has been to Paraguay. How cool is that!

Paul has two extremely cute kids (photo).

To secure the win, Paul had to run down Josh Duda. In the end, only four seconds separated those guys....

The T-Man also features a sprint course event, which was won by 19-year-old Mitchell Clayton, a perennial Junior of the Year consideree. Perhaps this will be the year he wins the award? He's certainly paid his dues.

Mitchell's margin of victory over runner-up Dr. Jim Nack, who is insanely good looking and totally ripped, was 11:13.

The women's sprint winner was hometowner (or UM-Morris student?) Dani Schultz.

Between the two races, the Minnesota outdoor tri season kickoff had forty finishers. RESULTS