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Tuesday, 16 August 2011 03:20

* SERIOUS CHICKING - Women seem to be cracking the Overall Top 10 in multisport races with semi-regularity these days.

Really?

Yeah. Sixty-four outdoor multis have been staged in Minnesota thus far in 2011. In 18 of those races (27%), fast girls have placed in the Top 10.

The most frequent female Top Tenner?

That would be the Michelle Andres (photo L), the lovely 34-year-old mom of five from East Gull Lake. She's done so FOUR times this season. Even more impressive is the fact that she actually cracked the overall Top 5 in each of those races. Here's how it shook-out: 5th at COLT, 2nd at Tri For a Cause, 4th at Chase the Police and at Northwoods. Additionally, her average margin of victory in these SPRINT events was 8:16....

* TURTLE NEWS - Hey, check out Chris Dohman's TURTLEMAN slide show that ran in the Shoreview Post. A plethora of totally cool shots! LINK

We were hoping Chris got a shot or two of Jess Burdick's