Race Coverage

Another Course Record For Cruser.

Tuesday, 28 August 2018 23:20

By MIke Aulie (brainerddispatch.com) 

BAXTER—Sauk Rapids' Wade Cruser set a course record and returned to the top of the podium while Baxter's Jacquelyn Bacigalupi was a first-time winner for the women in the Lakes Country Triathlon Sunday, Aug. 26, in Baxter.

Cruser finished the course in 56:55, breaking the previous course record of 58:33 that he set in 2016. The current race was shortened slightly in 2014 and begins with a quarter-mile swim at Whipple Beach followed by a 14-mile bike ride and finishes with a 3.2-mile run through Baxter's residential area.

This is Cruser's fourth year competing in the triathlon and might have been his third consecutive win except for an unfortunate mistake while leading in last year's race. He was second in 2015 his first year and won the 2016 race....

"Last year, I went the wrong way on the run," Cruser said. "I cut it about three-quarters of a mile short. Otherwise, this would have been three-straight wins.
"I keep coming back, four straight years. It's such a great little race up here and it's so easy to get here, less than an hour from my house."  READ MORE