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Race of the Year Stuff...
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Friday, 18 October 2013 00:10
Race of the Year - Last week we checked on the Race of the Year voting and discovered several things. First of all, voting has been brisk and is on pace to break records. Secondly, forty-two events have received votes, which suggests that, as usual, approximately half of the multisport events in our state actively encourage their participants to vote for ROY.
We also leanred that there hasn't been any more obvious cheating this year than there has been in years past. But there hasn't been any less, either.
Catching cheating is fun, and easier than you might think, but we're not going to divulge all of our policing methods here....
Going All the Way...
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Thursday, 17 October 2013 00:10
(Photo - MIchelle Andres)
Minnesota Multisport Awards - Too be leligible for the coed Long Distance Athlete of the Year award, an amateur triathlete must have turned in at least two outstanding long course--Half IM or longer--performances during the past season. For the men, only Matthew Payne was a slam dunk nominee, though Sean Cooley and Dan Arlandson also had noteworthy LD results....
Performance of the Year...The Women
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013 00:10
Minnesota Multisport Awards - Here are the official nominees for female Performance of the Year:
MICHELLE ANDRES - State Record 9:50:23 at Hawaiian Ironman World Championships.
EMILY KRATZ (photo below) - Amateur win @ Texas Ironman - 10:18:34
HEATHER LENDWAY (photo L) - Overall victory @ USAT Age Group Nationals (2:05:37)
HEATHER LENDWAY - Victory @ Leadman Epic-125 - Bend (Event Record)
Other performances receiving serious consideration: ...
Performance of the Year...The Guys
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013 00:10
(Photo - Matt Payne has two POY nominations this year.)
Minnesota Multisport Awards - A few years back the MMA Selectors created a policy wherein a single athlete could not have more than two nominations in the Performance of the Year category. Had this policy not been in place in 2012, for instance, Dan Hedgecock would have received at least three of the four official male POY nominations, something that has happened in the past, e.g. Marlo Crosby in 2006....
Here are the official 2013 men's POY nominees:
More MMA Stuff...
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Monday, 14 October 2013 00:10
Minnesota Multisport Awards - The nominees for all but two of the MMA categories--Long Course Athlete of the Year and Performance of the Year--have been officially announced, albeit in chunks. The male Triathlete of the Year candidates, for instance, were announced on October 2, while the female Most Improved nominees were revealed back on September 26, etc. For obvious reasons, the nominees in the final two categories were scheduled to be announced after the Hawaiian Ironman. To be more precise, those nominees will be tomorrow. Our fingers are crossed...