Race Coverage

Additional Indoor Tri Stuff...

Thursday, 21 January 2016 00:10

Here is some more capsule-style coverage of some of the Life Time - Indoor Tris that took place in the Metro back on January 3.

CROSSTOWN - This event had thirty-eight finishers and was won by Michael Tate and Emilie Strand. We believe that Michael is a transplanted cheesehead and is into Einsteinian stuff, Kanye West and Russell Crowe movies. Also using Facebook as our guide, Emilie is either from Norway or California. If she's the California Emilie, she was educated at Cornell and is now doing agra-business stuff in western Wisconsin. Of course, she may not have a FB account.

Some very accomplished outdoor triathletes participated, like former Lake Minnetonka and Minnesota Tri Series winner Steve Sander (3rd), who is a truly awesome guy, and Linda Langkos, nee Schievelbein, who is a HOOT, in addition to being one of our state's top 50-plussers. RESULTS....

EAGAN - Forty-four pool-trainer-treadmillers completed this year's Eagan Indoor Tri. Leading the way in their respective genders were Andrew Reinhardt, who is an insanely fast swimmer, and Amy Meyer. Reinhardt swam six more pool lengths than the next fastest swimmer. Whoa!

We were unable to unearth stuff about Ms. Meyer, but we did recognize the 2nd place woman, who is an accomplished outdoor triathlete and very, very cool person. Her name is Julie Feldman (photo above) and she willing admits that she watches "Deperate Housewives." "Feldman" is her married name. Her original name is "Tokkesdal," which is a Danish deal, we think? It is, we're not making this up, the 1,390,493rd most common surname in the world. RESULTS