Race Previews

"Juno" & Retro Shorts...

Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:10

Race Preview - The 30th edition of the Morris Tinman will take place next Saturday. The 1k-30k-10k event is our state's annual outdoor tri kickoff event and we hope it has a record turnout.

The race actually started 31 years ago but the 2008 edition had to be cancelled due to a 14-inch snowdump on the eve of the event. According to Weather Underground the conditions for next Saturday's race will not include snow and temps should be in the low 50s.

Last year's Tinman was won by Ryan DeYounge of Fergus Falls, and Apple Valley's Bette Rowley. Do you know them? We only know them by their race results, so in order to learn more about them, we visited their Facebook pages. We discovered that in addition to being fine athletes, they appear to be very cool  people.

Bette has great taste in movies. We know this because she likes many of the same movies that the MTN Guys like. One of her faves is "Juno," which, in our opinion, was the awesomest movie of 2007....

Rowley also likes to read. She's read "Name of the Rose" all the way through. We give her heavy props for that. She also has a cool tattoo and sometimes wears a life preserver (photo above).

We're not sure, but we think that Bette went skydiving last year. How intrepid is that!

As for DeYounge, we think it's cool that he capitalizes the "Y" in his last name. He is a fan of a singer/songwriter named Adam Michael Allison. We had never heard of him, so we Googled him and listened to a couple of his songs. We really liked "Different." "State Line" was pretty good, too.

Ryan is a handsome man with great teeth, a beautiful wife and one or two insanely cute children (photo R). He's been to Kuaui and owns an awesome pair of baggy retro shorts. We'd like to know where he bought them.

As we said earlier, we hope that the Tinman has a great turnout on Saturday. Will you be there? RACE INFO