Race Coverage
Words From a Big Picture Guy...
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 06:07
Pigman Race Report - By Josh Riff
Pigman long course this weekend represented a (near) culmination of a fantastic season that keeps getting better. As a big picture person the actual race itself was the small accomplishment, it is everything around the race that makes this race so special.
The facts:
SWIM: The day started off warm. The water temperature was 78 degrees so it was wetsuit legal. We were warming up but by the 7:30 race start we still could not see the first buoy. About an hour later the fog suddenly cleared and the race started. I caught a perfect draft and decided to "own" those feet and play it smart. I exited with two of the elite women with Dan Cohen right behind me...
Christel's "Pingelig Maschine"...
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 05:00
Young Life Race Report - By Christel Kippenhan (photo) 
(ED. Christel is from Germany, hence the Teutonic title and the fact that she writes with an accent.)
On Saturday morning, Detroit Lakes greeted us with a thick blanket of fog. We were joking that they would need to attach beepers to the buoys and blinking lights to the athletes
His Kind of Event...
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Monday, 23 August 2010 05:00
Young Life Race Report - By Sam Janicki
Fog was on the forefront of everyone
Riff Rocks at the Reservior...
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 21:32
St. Paul Pro David Thompson collected his 7th Pigman Half title and 66th career win on Sunday. Edina's Josh Riff (Yndecam.com photo) was the men's amateur champ. It was Riffer's 3rd half victory of the 2010 season. The women's winner was the "Queen of 70.3," Jackie Arendt of Madison, Wisconsin.
More to follow...RESULTS
Holden Nothing Back...
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Sunday, 22 August 2010 11:32
St. Paul Triathlon Coverage - "Ninety-seven bottles of Smirnoff on the wall...97 bottles of vodka," 
the woman with the strawberry blond hair sang with a theatrical slur. The other four women she was running with along the southeastern shoreline of Lake Phalen were laughing. The finish line of the 5th annual St. Paul Triathlon was just minutes away but for these girls, the party had begun long ago. They were celebrating life. It was a beautiful day; warm, but not too warm; sultry, ...
A Krakenesque Victory...
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Saturday, 21 August 2010 13:08
Young Life Triathlon Stuff -
Oh poop! We predicted that Thaddeus McCamant would win the Young Life Sprint Triathlon today.
He didn't.
But he came pretty darn close; that is, close for a guy who was predicted to win because he has a cool "old Timey" name. The Thaddinator--his cool new sobriquet--finished 37th.
Two of the people that Zippy the Gibbon predicted would win today did manage to do just that. Grand Rapids' Tara Makinen did repeat as the women's
