Race Coverage
Breakthroughs, PRs & Successful Debuts...
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Monday, 20 July 2015 00:10
HEART OF THE LAKES - BRIDGET MCCOY had a breakout victory at Life Time - Minneapolis two Saturday's ago. Yesterday, at the perennially awesome HOLT, it was CHRISTINA ROBERTS' turn to have the performance of her life. More words and photos tomorrow. RESULTS
RACINE 70.3 - Several Minnesotans rocked socks at Racine yesterday. BRIAN SAMES lowered his 70.3 PR from 4:16 to 4:12 and was the 4th amateur to cross the line. And GABY BUNTEN's long course debut produced a 4:52:15, which topped her AG and placed her 6th among female amateurs. Finishing just ahead of Gaby in 5th place was NICOLE "HEINEY" HEININGER (photo L with 7th place pro / honorary Minnesotan DANI FISCHER), who turned in a sweet 4:48:01. Her time was only 1:27 off the 70.3 PR she set last year at Chisago. FYI, KRIS SPOTH popped an impressive 4:13:53, which placed him 7th among amateur men.
LIFE TIME - NEW YOUR CITY TRIATHLON - Despite an uncharacteristically lackluster swim split, St. Paul pro HEATHER LENDWAY managed to crack the Top 5 in the Big Apple. Duluth's JESS ROSSING finished 8th among amateur women. RESULTS ....
ITU WORLD TRIATHLON - HAMBURG - Guess who won the women's race? Yes, it was GWEN JORGENSEN, who appears to be invincible on the Draft Legal circuit. She's won 11 consecutive WTS races in a row, back-to-back, one-right-after-the-other. RESULTS
PAUL BUNYAN TRIATHLONS - RYAN WIPPLER is going Ape-Do-Do this season. Saturday he picked up his 2nd W of the year to go with three other podium placements, doing so in the PB Long Course race. He shared the top spot with defending champtress Angie Hop, who is a HOOT! RYAN WELLE and EMILY LUNDSTROM captured the PB Sprint titles. RESULTS
BUZZ RYAN SPRINT - JASON CRISP and ELAINE NELSON led the way at this 4th annual event at majestic Island Lake. More words and pics will post later this week. RESULTS
DOOR COUNTY HALF - Rochester's DANI VSETECKA (photo L) needed one more race in 2014 in order to be nominated for Rookie of the Year. Having only raced twice--a 1st at Waseca Sprint, a 2nd at Treadman-- she is still eligible for ROY consideration this year. She entered her first race of the season yesterday at the Door County Half IM and WON IT! Her time was brilliant, a 4:46:29, and her margin of victory over runnerup Stacey Henkel was 5:27. Henkel, you may recall, is the amateur CR holder (10:02:09 in 2014) at Ironman Wisconsin.
Other Minnesotans who raced at Door County Half include DAN ARLANDSON (10th - 4:37:56), LINDSEY MARSHALL (10TH - 5:12:30) and MEGAN ERLANDSON (11th - 5:12:38).
