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Weekend Racing Highlights....
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Monday, 30 April 2012 03:00
Twas a huge weekend for Minnesota multisporters. Check out the storylines:
* Minneapolis' Dan Hedgecock (photo L) was the overall amateur winner at St. Anthony's Triathlon in Florida today. His 1:53:15 is the fourth-fastest time in the 29 year history of the race. Following Dan's stellar 2011 season, today's performance is a powerful predictor--Dan just may be the nation's top amateur triathlete this year. More story to follow. Results
* Parish is USAT Duathlon National Champion. Payne podiums, too. More to come...Results
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MAKING LUCK...
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Saturday, 28 April 2012 02:30
By Tom Demerly (for usatriathlon.org)
This USA Triathlon Multisport Lab article is presented by TriSports.com
Have you ever known an athlete afflicted by everything from bee stings to forgotten equipment, bike crashes, blisters and missed wave starts? Bad luck seems to follow them. If something can go wrong, it does for them.
The opposite is the athlete who races and trains like an accountant. Everything is tabulated, check listed, prepared and re-checked. For them preparation and racing is a well-charted movement from point A to point B. Organized athletes experience a lower level of anxiety and spend less mental energy worrying.
One of the greatest performance coaches ever, author Steven Covey of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People coined the phrase
Stuff About Tip Top Fitness....
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Thursday, 26 April 2012 02:30
By Rod Raymond
I have been in the business of helping others achieve optimal fitness for over 20 years.
I have learned that those who have been able to maintain tip top fitness year over year have the following traits:
1. Like kids, they are playful.
I remember running intervals when playing tag with my brother. I remember biking the hills hard up Swan Lake road when my cousins were trying to ditch me. I remember doing hypoxic breathing techniques with my friend Jim when we were looking for hockey pucks on the bottom of the local hotel pool we always snuck into. I remember working my flexibility trying to get into my buddy Bobby's snow fort. I remember running 1/2 mile repeats after beaning cars with eggs off of Central Entrance. Man, those were fun times! And, all of us kids were all super ripped. Note of confession: Sadly, Stevey got caught by a faster UMD football player who wasn't happy we egg'd his car.
2. They exercise from the heart.
The same cells that are found in the brain also make up portions of the heart. In other words, your heart can think. Many athletes get caught up in the marketing side of endurance sports. They buy all the training gadgets, heart rate monitors, watt meters for their bikes, and follow...
Becky's Belly, Rod's Grammar, Denver's Bliss...
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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 02:30
* THE BELLY - Becky Youngberg won nine triathlons last year; more than any other Minnesota girl.
How will she do this season? We predict that she won't win a single race.
Why, you ask?
'Cuz her husband Jack is a major stud muffin who for the third time since 2008 has managed to impregnate his wife.
That's right! As they say in Italy, Becky's "got the belly."
We'll miss you at the races, Becky. We look forward to writing about your racing exploits in 2013. FYI, that is not Becky's preggers belly in the photo. We found it on Google and thought it was cool...(More stuff on Page 2)
