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Monday, 14 October 2013 00:10
Minnesota Multisport Awards - The nominees for all but two of the MMA categories--Long Course Athlete of the Year and Performance of the Year--have been officially announced, albeit in chunks. The male Triathlete of the Year candidates, for instance, were announced on October 2, while the female Most Improved nominees were revealed back on September 26, etc. For obvious reasons, the nominees in the final two categories were scheduled to be announced after the Hawaiian Ironman. To be more precise, those nominees will be tomorrow. Our fingers are crossed...
State Record!
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Sunday, 13 October 2013 00:10
Ironman World Championships - Last Friday a guy contacted us wanting to know what Minnesota amateur woman has the fastest time at Kona. We dug around a bit and believe that Catherine Lee was our state's fastest female finisher (amateur) at the Super Bowl of Triathlon. In 2010, she turned in a 10:28:27.
The guy asked his question because he assumed that whatever that time was, it was destined to be lowered by one or more of the fast Minnesota women that were scheduled to race on the Big Island on Saturday. We agreed with him that a new state record would be set.
Well, it's Sunday morning. Were we right? Did any of our state's women unseat Cathy Lee?
Oh yeah!
As most of you already know, Michelle Andres turned in a career performance yesterday. Her time was a jaw-dropping 9:50:23, which placed her 3rd in the...
Minnesotans at Kona...9:50:23!!!!!
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Saturday, 12 October 2013 13:32
1:20 PM (MN Time) - Most of the swim splits are in:
Michelle Andres (35-39) - SWIM - 1:09:06 (Andres' split is 4:48 faster than her IMOO '12 swim!) - BIKE - 5:14:29! (7:47 faster than IMOO '12!) - If she can match her IMOO run split, she'll break 10 hours! - Run Split - 3:20:53 (Two minutes faster than IMOO '12)
Minnesota's all-time fastest Ironmanwoman just got even faster! 9:50:23!!!!
Cindy Blackstock (40-44) - Swim - 1:32:26 - Bike - 6:27:02 - Run - 4:20:16 - 12:34:36
Paul Bozoian (55-59) - Swim - 1:02:58 - Bike - 5:32:20 - Run - 4:28:02 - 11:13:52
Nutritional Boo-Boos...
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Saturday, 12 October 2013 00:10
MTN assiduously scours The Web, especially in the post-season months, in search of interesting articles to post. We hope you enjoy this one about the nutrition boo-boos even smart triathletes make. We found it at Triathlon.competitor.com.
You are a smart triathlete: You wake up at 5 a.m., routinely decline a second round of drinks, watch what you eat and are aware of the latest trends in sports nutrition and bike technology. But even the most well-meaning, self-sacrificing, smart triathletes can make nutrition mistakes that prevent them from reaching their body composition and performance goals. Avoid the following nutrition traps and your 2012 season will be better than you imagined....
Training, Tahoe, Kona...
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Friday, 11 October 2013 00:10
By Devon Palmer (palmertri.wordpress.com - September 23, 2013)
-Swimming is coming around. Last Monday was my first practice back and it did not go well. With 6 swims last week I managed to put some fitness back in my arms and felt pretty fast again this morning at practice. Our main set was 300s and I had enough vigor to swim really fast the 1st 100 to get on the feet of my lanemate Brian who was leading. Thankfully Brian was not rushing too much so the final 200 of each 300 was relatively controlled, until he actually tried on the last one. The “last one, fast one” principle is respected in our lane.
-Ironman Lake Tahoe was interesting to track. Looking at the bike times the course is clearly hard! I was surprised the field did not split up dramatically...
