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"Did I Mention It Was Raining?"
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013 00:10
By Rhiannon O'Connor
Ironman Wales was held for the third time this year in the Welsh town of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. This is an area that my family and I spent many summer vacations when I was growing up. We stayed in the area and played on many of the beaches that the bike route passed.
My father's family is from the town of Narberth, which we passed twice on the bike route, and is also at the top of one of the major hill climbs. When I decided to do an Ironman this was the one that called out to me. Little did I know....
Monumentally Unsucky...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013 02:10
(Photo - This cool MinnefotaMoments photo of Ross honking a Sports Loogie has nothing to do with this story.)
Fall Classic Duathlon VII – The weather for last May’s Oakdale Du was nightmarish. It was cold and sleety and windy. Twas a monumentally sucky day.
Fast forward to last Saturday for the 7th annual Fall Classic Duathlon at Lake Elmo Park, the same venue used for Oakdale. Conditions were wonderfully autumnal: Hayride Weather, i.e. sunny with a smattering of cirrus clouds, light breezes and temps in the low 60s. The day was monumentally unsucky ....
The Masters...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013 00:20
Photo - Kevin O'Connor finishing at Nationals.)
2013 Minnesota Multisport Awards – The difficult task of studying resumes and narrowing the number of potential candidates to four official nominees in each of 12 categories has begun. This week MTN will post the official nominees in three of those categories, starting with Male Master of the Year.
Here are the male MOY nominees and their 2013 results: ...
Adele Haters & Ex-Boothers"...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013 00:10
ONE LAST TRI VIII – One can learn much about people by watching them at races. Here are some of our observations at Sunday’s One Last Tri: Sarah Virkle hates Adele. Really, truly hates her. More than Congress, even. Vicki Ostendorf wears her baseball cap on backwards yet adamantly denies being a member of a gang. Jason Goepfert has a thermoregulatory thing that allows him wear shorts and t-shirts on jeans and sweatshirt days. And since becoming a triathlete a year and a half ago, Christine Fjelstad has stopped “boothing.” ...
A Perfect Ironman Storm
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Sunday, 15 September 2013 00:10
ED. Story and photos of today's One Last Tri will post on Tuesday. RESULTS
By Ananda Bates, first Ironman at age 42 in 11:36
This years Ironman Wisconsin saw a huge showing from the Minnesota tri community, both in participants and supporters alike. With 304 MN based triathletes I was one of a group of 8: Karl Adalbert, Mark Evans, Anthony Hirschman, Jmatt Keil (Kona Bound), Joe Langel, Hilary Patzer (Kona bound), and Meghan Quinlan, all trained by former Iowa State track coach Kristy Popp under the Active8-u www.activ8-u.com founded by Moira Petit and Erik Gabrielson....
