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Awesome Apple...
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Saturday, 24 May 2014 02:00
The 32nd Apple Duathlon was nothing short of awesome. It was won for the seventh time by pro David Thompson. Brooks Grossinger finished 4th and claimed the amateur men's title.
Pro Ruth Brennan Morrey nuked her 2012 CR and former Rochesterarian Dani Fischer (photo L) was Top amateur in the 4th fastest time in race history (1:32:43). James Hannon (55-59M) and Pam Stevens (60-64W) rewrote their AG's course records. Words and photos are coming soon. RESULTS
Devon's Double...
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Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:10
By Devon Palmer (palmertri.wordpress.com)
RACE REPORTAGE - It was a mixed weekend. After Falls Duathlon and another du the weekend after I took a full week to train. This weekend I tried a double, racing a sprint tri Saturday and the Gear West Duathlon Sunday. In the past the only double weekends I’ve done were with the Firehouse 50 team time trial on Saturday then a tri on Sunday. That went poorly the first year I tried it in 09 and fine the second year in 2010. The double was a nice push and I felt really strong a couple weeks later both times.
Saturday the sprint tri was fun but frigid. The swim was 51 degrees. That’s brisk. I felt like throwing up the first few minutes. The rest of the swim I just wanted to get the heck out of the water. I did not swim well at all. Heather...
Venue, Organization & Amenities...
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Friday, 23 May 2014 00:10
By Kari Petrie (sctimes.com)
SARTELL – With a national reputation as one of the best races of its kind, the Apple Duathlon has two new leaders who hope to keep that tradition alive.
Lisa Bollinger and Adam Konczewski are the new co-directors of the two-day event. The Apple Duathlon kicks off Friday with the kid's race at 5:50 p.m. at Sartell Middle School. The main event starts at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the middle school. The event attracts about 275 participants.
Participants in the duathlon run 5 kilometers (3.1 miles), bike 33 kilometers (20.5 miles), then run another 5K.
Duathlons are far less common than other types of races like the running-only marathons and half-marathons and the multi-discipline triathlons....
Cold Water Makes You Slower...
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014 06:10
Photo - Winners Heather Lendway and Devon Palmer doing some post-race glow-basking.
BLAINE TRIATHLON - Cold water makes triathletes slower. This was especially evident at the 3rd annual Blaine Triathlon last Saturday. Racing conditions were semi-ideal, except for the water temp, which was announced as 51.4-degrees. Some said it didn't feel that warm.
Mercifully, the swim was shortened from by a little more than a hundred meters, from .33 to .25.
How does cold water make one slow, you inquire?
It makes you shiver and your hands don't work, and your feet get numb and you can't talk good. Transition times are doubled, or tripled, or worse. Then it's hard to ride fast. Doing so only makes you colder and your teeth chatter harder and you get those convulsive shivery spasms that can make you crash if you already have lousy balance and negligible core strength.
Then you have to run on dead feet that make clumpy noises against the asphalt.
NOW Rocks in Cary...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014 06:10
By Diane Hankee
RACE REPORT - The National Long Course Duathlon race in Cary was beautiful and challenging. No regrets going to this race!
The run course was a five mile out and back, that we completed two times. It was mostly on a trail that had a mile and a half of a 1:1 slope - the kind of hill you would seek to train on and could have walked up just as fast. The run course also had a little mud for a short section that added some excitement and sliding.
The thirty-two mile bike was fast and rolling, mostly sheltered by a park forest. There were a lot of athletes from around the Country which created some great competition in the female field. However, it was unfortunate to see a few draft packs on the bike and some females mixed in there. ....
