Race Previews

Mini-Preves...Morris & Falls...

Friday, 24 April 2015 00:10

MORRIS TINMAN - Though Burnsville's Bette Rowley has won this race each of the last three years, we think she's going to have to settle for 2nd place at UM-Morris tomorrow. Our talkative gut tells us that Sheena Dauer of Montevideo, will come out on top. We're basing this opinion on astological and phrenological factors, plus the fact that she dominated the women's Olympic field at Green Lake last August. We met her and thought she was nice. She has straight white teeth, a Ph.d and looks great in scarves (photo L).

Who will win the guys' Olympic-ish-distance race in Morris tomorrow. We think that Paul Wymer will nip Mick Bakker for the victory. RACE WEBSITE

FALLS DUATHLON - A great turnout--250+-- is expected for Saturday's run-bike-run and we encourage undecided athletes to say "What the heck," or WTH in texteze, and enroll. It's a great event. Final Stretch puts on awesome races.

So, who do we think is gonna win? History tells us that former-amateur-turned pro-re-turned-amateur Devon Palmer is the guy to win, something he did here in 2013....

History also tells us that several of our state's best du-ers, guys like Sames, Johnson, Millner, Minelli, will be late registrants, which doesn't make them bad people. So, Devon will probably have, as they say, his work cut out for him. And even if the aforementioned dudes remain on the sidelines, he'll have Kyle Serreyn to contend with.

The clear choice to win the women's race is Suzie Fox, who is one of America's premier duathletes even though, in our biased opinion, USAT screwed her out of a DOY HM in 2013. We sure hope that Suz does Du Nationals on June 6. There are butts to be kicked there, and she's got the feet to do just that.

Will Suzie be pushed? If 2013 Rookie of the Year runner-up Olivia Bagnall shows up, that will keep her honest, but not keep her off the top step of the podium. Another Serreyn, Tracy, who is awesome and very funny, could podium on Saturday.  RACE WEBSITE

BONUS - Check out the cool photo collage that Nick Morales made for USAT: