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Three-Peats For Julien & Tracie...
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012 02:00
Race Coverage - Julien Sein, who is a French guy, and American girl Tracie Kent, each won the Tri-U-Mah for the 3rd time on Sunday. Sein, who has been to Jamaica and doesn't like to wear ties, has won this well-attended (156 finishers) indoor tri for the third consecutive year, covering an event record 19.049 miles. For Kent, who works at Target and goes to races with a really nice guy named Louis, it was her third win in four tries. She was 2nd in her non-winning effort back in 2009. Tracie, a coffee lover, covered 14.411 miles on Sunday, which was .385 off the PR she posted in 2011....
Party Time!
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012 01:30
* 2012 MMA Party - Mark you calendars! The 2012 Minnesota Multisport Awards Party is tentatively slated for Saturday, November 10. Venue location and details will be announced soon. We invite ALL of our state's tri and du-athletes--newbies, recreational athletes, grizzled veterans (and their families)--to celebrate the '12 season and all the blessings associated with being a multisportsperson in Minnesota. We also encourage those who have yet to enter a race but are seriously considering doing so in 2013, to attend this party. These folks will come away from this experience knowing just how totally cool Minnesota's athletes, events and resources really are. The Party will feature yummilicious food, unlimited adult beverages and great conversation with friends old and new. It will also be a great opportunity for horndogs like Sean Cooley to meet girls. And for girls looking for guys, well, as they say here in self-effacing Minnesota, "you could do a lot worse."....
Newberry Knives and Sophomoric Movies...
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 04:00
Going Off Course - Minneapolis-based veterinarian / medical affairs person / decorated triathlete Gillian Auslander is kinda enigmatic.
How so, you inquire?
How else would you describe a person who can dispassionately perform a Dual Radical Testiclectomy on a bull while eating a meatball marinara sub in the afternoon, then cry at the end of "Marley & Me" later that evening? Those things--de-stoning and animal movie crying--are generally mutually exclusive.
Gillian, pronounced "Gill-ee-un," not "Jill-ee-un," did that once, we think? And that's not the only example of conclusive enigmaticism that defines her. As many of you already know, Ms. Auslander appears very sweet and mild-mannered and you have to get really close to her mouth if you want to hear her speak. She's not a loud-talker. Yet, "Shook Me All Night Long" by scream rockers AC/DC is her favoritest song ever. In fact, she loves hi-decibel screechy singers, like Angus Young and Steven Tyler, who if you read his autobiography you'd know that he did more drugs than Jim Morrison, Amy Winehouse and Keith Richards put together....
The Girl With the Ironman Tattoo....
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Sunday, 05 February 2012 02:00
By Trent Theroux (for xtri.com)
I'm getting old and crotchety. I read somewhere that there are two types of people in the world - those that come in for bed at 11:00pm and those that are just heading out at 11:00pm. Somewhere in my thirties I passed from the latter to the former without even knowing it. Something else that has passed me by is the body art rave. Growing up, the only people I knew with tattoos were sailors and felons. Popeye and Bluto.
As a teenage busboy, I served a man wearing a muscle shirt sporting a heart-shaped tattoo on his left shoulder. The tattoo covered his entire shoulder and was black against his very red skin. The inscription inside the heart read Danielle & Tommy. Except that Danielle's name was scribbled out (in ink) and replaced with Mindy. I sarcastically told their waitress that I guess ink lasts longer than love. She told me that his first wife died and that I was an idiot. Until now, I've kept me tattoo opinions to myself....
