Race Coverage
Starting a Tradition...
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Thursday, 09 July 2015 00:10
By Larry Hosch
How it Started
ZTRI RACE REPORT - It all started last year, around midnight over a summertime bonfire, it is common knowledge our best decisions occur at midnight over a neighborhood bonfire, our conversation shifted towards triathlon and my friend, Brad who had never ran a 1k was adamant he was going to race a triathlon. After perusing the handy dandy race calendar on MN Tri News website we decided the Ztri was a perfect event…small, up north during the holiday weekend, ends with a Zorbaz at the finish line. My friend Brad completed his first triathlon last year at Ztri, had a blast, did something he never thought he’d do and is working towards doing more this year.
This year, Andy Zabel and I came back to Ztri and we didn’t leave disappointed. This is a great event for the weekend warrior or up north vacationer looking for a great race to kick off the 4th. of July festivities. Uncle Randy offers a a cool, unintimidating vibe, no one takes themselves too seriously and everyone is there for some fun and exercise...
Rip Roar, ZTri & RBM Cracks Top 5 at Ironman Frankfort!
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Sunday, 05 July 2015 00:10
UPDATE: Conditions were brutal today (temps in the 90s), still Ruth Brennan Morrey raced to a 5th-place finish at the European Ironman Championships in Frankfort, Germany today, for which she earned $5000. (Euros?) Her time was 9:21:09. RESULTS
By Chris Crocker
The inaugural race of the Rip Roar kids’ triathlon series is in the books, and it was an amazing weekend of kids racing in Mankato, Mn. With Hyvee shuttering the Hyvee kids triathlon series, race director Michael Zimmerman was looking to fill the void in the upper Midwest with a kids specific tri series that will rival Hyvee’s former series. As it should be, he is the former director of the Hyvee series, and he saw the loss of the series as a real blow to kids triathlons, and an opportunity for him to shape the series.
With three more races in the series (Omaha; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Des Moines, Iowa), young athletes looking to participate in a very professionally run series with great competition will ...
Broken Records, Leapt Fences & Bum Knees...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015 08:10
LAKE WACONIA TRIATHLON - Who said that triathlon wasn't a spectator sport? We think it was a guy named Larry.
Larry was wrong. Triathlon, while not the same kind of viewing experience that you have when you watch a stadium sport or sports on TV, has thrilling moments that more than make up for those periods when all the athletes are in the hinterlands, out of sight though not necessarily out of mind.
The 26th edition of the Lake Waconia Triathlon, which in our humble opinion is and has been a nearly perfect sprint race, happened last Sunday and it was chock full of exciting moments, spectator moments.
Perhaps the most entertaining of these moments happened when Northfield's Brian Porter was hammering toward the final 90-degree turn that led to, as the great Phil Liggett would say, The Finishing Line. On autopilot, Brian overshot the turn and was headed into the transition area when spectators alerted him to his boo-boo. Regaining consciousness, Brian turned around and headed back toward the finishing line. He made a hard left at the fencing, which he soon learned marked the outside, not the inside, of the finish corridor. Instead of backtracking yet again, he lept over the fence (photo) then stumbled toward the timing mat, which he rolled over. It was soooo cool to watch and the spectators LOVED IT. ...
Miller Repeats in Perham...
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Monday, 29 June 2015 00:10
Photo - Average Jo winners Kierann Smith Toth and Casey Miller, both of whom are originally from Wahpeton, North Dakota, which is a very nice town. It's not far from Dwight.
11th AVERAGE JO TRIATHLON - Casey Miller picked up his 6th career win in Perham last Saturday at the 11th annual Average Jo Triathlon. A Rookie fo the Year nominee in 2013, the year he placed 2nd here, Casey also won this race in 2014. That year he covered the .3-12-4 course 2:01 ahead of runner-up Branden Scheel of Fargo. This year's margin was smaller (1:12) and required that he significantly outsplit eventual 2nd placer Ryan Wippler, who won his first career multi at Lakes to Pines on June 13. 2013 winner Tyler Zima (Fargo) took 3rd with Scheel, a perennial top fiver...
Weekend Racing Highlights...
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Sunday, 28 June 2015 06:00
26th LAKE WACONIA TRIATHLON - If the women's Performance of the Year award was presented today, it would go to Suzie Fox, who crushed LWT's CR, a mark that had stood for eight years. Matt Payne picked up his 3rd 
consecutive win here. Words and pics on Tuesday. RESULTS
3rd Annual ST. JAMES TRIATHLON - Mankato's Matthew Busch has won all three editions of this sprint course race. Julie Gronewald of St. Peter, won today's women's competition and placed 4th overall. The event had 27 finishers. RESULTS...
Bike Crashes & Hotel Fires...
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Sunday, 28 June 2015 00:10
By Heather Lendway (heatherlendway.com)
COPPER CREEK TRI RACE REPORT - I was excited to race another “local” sprint triathlon as they are usually the most fun and I love racing with people I know. Fellow local pro Patrick Parish joined my dad and me for the ride down to Iowa. We were able to cram two bikes, all our racing gear and an extra body (Patrick) in the back of the car. Having a guest in the car was great for conversation and as always having a chauffeur was great for napping the second half of the ride, thanks Greg!
After arriving in Iowa we picked up our packets, dropped Patrick at his hotel, checked into ours, had some dinner and got to bed nice and early. Thank goodness for earplugs because our hotel was filled with young softball and baseball teams that were quite rowdy, that is until the fire...
