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Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:10
OAKDALE DU XIII - Awesome turnout (450ish). Awesome weather. Mega-Awesome Performances. Four men broke the old course records. Hankee wins again. Words to follow. RESULTS
CENTRAL LAKES DU III - Angie Johnson ripped her ouw CR for the women. David Jensen (photo) won for the third consecutive year. RESULTS
Open Water Anxiety..
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Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:10
By Sara McLarty (triathlon.competitor.com)
Discomfort in the open water is very common. Whether it is a panic attack in the middle of the course, fear of the “Creature from the Black Lagoon,” or simply an aversion to dark and murky water, you are not alone. Anxiety is normal among athletes at all experience levels. The answer to conquering your fear lies in your pre-race training, mental preparation, and creating and utilizing a personal race strategy.
Consider these strategies:
• Mimic the chaos of open water by swimming with a large group in the pool. Share a lane with other swimmers where you’ll be forced to make contact, and swim side-by-side to become more comfortable.
"My Best Duathlon Race Ever...."
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Friday, 09 May 2014 00:10
A Win!
By Devon Palmer
I won a duathlon on Saturday. It was fun. It was a nice course out of Square Lake park in Stillwater. The top 4 men from the prior weekend at Falls Duathlon were all back. This race was an out and back 5k, a two lap 20 mile bike, and the same run again. Given the length of the bike I figured it would be down to Joe Johnson and I. My Gear West Bike teammate Brian Sames (pronounced the same as the word same, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise) would get a good lead right away and Joe and I would need to ride him down before the half way point in order to get a big enough gap before the second run. Curt Wood, a very strong cyclist but not super fast runner, pointed out an obvious equation I still use for duathlons – if both runs are equal length and you’re trying to beat runners on the bike you need to take the lead before half way on the bike. Otherwise it will probably be too late to build a sufficient gap.....
Shifting Gears...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2014 06:10
By Matthew Payne (matthew-payne.blogspot.com)
Well whaddya know? Another winter has come and gone during which I posted exactly zero updates. Although that's probably for the best. Anything I may have written this winter would almost certainly have spun off into a rant about how soul-crushingly awful our weather is.
For the one or two of you keeping track of such things, you may have noticed that there has been a change in the banner ads to the right. Starting this year, I'll be racing as part of the Gear West Bike and Triathlon Development Team.
This is a tad bit bittersweet because I have nothing but good things to say about TCMC, Dan Casebeer and everyone at Grand...
Ben & Lauren Take the Hill...
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Wednesday, 07 May 2014 00:10
TAKE THE HILL TRIATHLON - Ben Trnka is a fine young man who parts his hair on the right. He got married to a lovely girl who looks kinda like awesome actress Amy Adams (photo L) last summer and he is still very happy.
Ben also won last Saturday's Take the Hill Triathlon in St. Peter, and assuming that the distances haven't been altered, he did so in record time. His groovy time was 1:00:13, which lowered Mike Torchia's five-year-old CR by 37 seconds. Additionally, he was 3:01 faster than runner-up Nick Weiler, who also made the podium here in 2013. Nick was so inspired by the Winter Olympics that he did the City of Lakes Loppet which gave him major beard-cicles (photo below).
Third place for the guys went to Nate Sanders (1:03:23), who is a doctor and, like Ben and Nick, a totally good guy. Nate went to Florida a few months ago, probably to scope out some future retirement locales....
