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Blindsided by Improvement...

Tuesday, 01 March 2016 00:10

2012 Minneapolis Tri Elite Super Podium (L-R) - Ruth Brennan Morrey (2nd), Cathy Yndestad (1st) and Claire Bootsma (3rd). (YndeCam photo)

On many occasions during this young century the MTN Guys have been pleasantly blindsided by an athlete's improvement.

Huh?

Here's some examples. In 2010, Rookie of the Year nominee Claire Bootsma did not make Team Minnesota. We predicted that she'd make the team in 2011, but we did not foresee that she would earn the #1 ranking, win three MMAs and be discussed for US AOY HM. Very cool! ..

She's Done it All....

Sunday, 28 February 2016 06:10

ED. Terry Lee, a great friend of MTN and influential member of Minnesota's multisport community, sent us this article. Enjoy.

By Doug Williams (espnW.com - 2/18)

Jan Guenther has raced outrigger canoes in California and Hawaii, done a three-day cross-country ski race in Greenland and completed six Ironman triathlons. She has trekked across Finland on skis just for the experience, and paddled in flat-water canoe races across the Midwest. In nearly 30 years of competition she has tackled both the serious (the 1994 Olympic cross-country ski trials) and the odd.

One of those oddities was the Mountain Man Triathlon in Colorado, a now-defunct one-of-a-kind snowshoe-ski-speed skate winter race at more than 7,000 feet. She never won it, but it used to leave her with a smile affixed to her frozen face. It might be her favorite event ever. "It was just very colorful, very different," she says. "It was fun." ...

"The Couple That Trains Together...."

Sunday, 28 February 2016 00:10

You said it: Couples on the course, stay the course. Feel the love with these three pointers.

By Lisa Dolbear (ironman.com - 6/14)

We took a recent poll on our Facebook page to see how people felt about training with their significant others. The result? Most of you believe it’s true: "The couple that trains together, stays together." ...

W.'s Pack....

Saturday, 27 February 2016 00:10

W.Harvey-and-dogs.gif By Harmony Gallegos (southwestmetromag.com - Oct. 2015)

While many of us stroll the neighborhood with our dogs regularly to keep fit and healthy, others—like triathlete, Ironman finisher, and self-proclaimed “endurance junkie” W. Harvey Skees of Eden Prairie—take exercising with dogs to a new level.

Skees, owner of rescue dogs Dottie, a 60-pound pit bull mix named for her speckled belly, and Zeus “the Moose,” an American Bulldog who weighs in at nearly 100 pounds, regularly walks and runs with both dogs—sometimes up to seven miles at a time. “Walking with my dogs is just part of our daily routine, no different than eating dinner or brushing my teeth,” he says. “It’s just something I do.” ...