Race Coverage

The Julester Is Hooked!....Updated...

Sunday, 12 June 2011 14:09

(Facebook Photo - Former cheap wine drinker and occasional pot smoker, The Julester, lost her tri-virginity at Trinona this morning. And she is totally unashamed! FYI, we may have made totally up the part about her being a party girl.)

* Trinona Sprint - In a race preview we posted last Thursday (LINK), we predicted that tri-newby Julie, aka "The Julester," would get totally hooked on the tri lifestyle when she crossed the finish line at Trinona Sprint. Moments ago the former alleged semi-Party Girl told us that our prediction was correct! She's hooked and can't wait to enter another race.

Here's how she did: She finished 247th overall (554 entrants), 7th 45-49W. Her splits: 14:04 swim / 43:12 Bike (15.3 mph) / 29:13 Run (9:45 pace).

Congrats Julester! And MTN love goes out to all those who lost their tri-virginity at Trinona this morning. Trinona Sprint RESULTS...Much more stuff on the next page...

* Trinona Olympic - DKT an Heidi Keller-Miler (photo R) rewrote the overall course records at Trinona Olympic this morning. David's outlandish 1:52:45, lowered his own 2010 best by 18 seconds. His victory margin over runner-up Patrick Davis, a rookie pro from Ames, Iowa, was 2:44. Matt Payne grabbed the final podium spot. His excellente' mundo 1:57:44 was a 34 second improvement on his 2010 clocking.

Coming off a 2nd place effort at Buffalo Olympic last Sunday, Heidi Keller-Miler, 47, clocked a splendiferous 2:17:42, which lowered Julie Hull's year-old CR by 1:19. Local star / college professor, Robyn Wangberg, took 2nd in 2:20:55. Stephanie Alcivar grabbed 3rd in 2:23:31. Robyn and Stephanie were 3rd and 4th respectively last year and both set PRs today. Obviously not recovered from her recent bike/car accident, 2010 champ Julie Hull settled for 4th, more than five minutes off last year's pace. Get yourself healed-up, Jules!

NEW INFO.....Posted Wednesday AM...

More words and photos to come. Trinona Olympic RESULTS

* A young Minneapolis woman (by way of Milwaukee) with impressive running and XC skiing creds, and an even younger athletic phenom from rural Wisconsin, outraced all the tri vets at this year's Trinona Sprint. Unable to unearth prior multisport efforts for either athlete, we suspect that both of them--23-year-old Maureen Keane (microscopic Facebook photo L) and 14-year-old, YES, 14!, Nikolas Pardoe of bucolic Black River Falls--are first-year triathletes. Keane's remarkable 1:04:42 bettered Molly Cochran's your-old course best by 1:33. Pardoe's 59:10 is the second fastest men's clocking in the three-year history of this race. According to Keane's Facebook page, one of her interests is "Chillin Like A Villan." MEN'S PODIUM: 1. Nikolas Pardoe, 14, Black River Falls, WI - 59:10; 2. Jay Halliday, 26, Willmar, MN - 1:00:20; 3. Travis Seeger, 32, Byron, MN - 1:00:25. WOMEN'S PODIUM: 1. Maureen Keane, 23, Minneapolis - 1:04:42; 2. Veronica Bond, 39, Rochester - 1:05:33; 3. Jenny Mueller, 29, Rochester - 1:06:35. SPRINT RESULTS

* Manitou XXII - Daniel Hedgecock and Claire Bootsma continue to rock the regional