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Pride & Purpose...

Sunday, 27 April 2014 00:10

By Erik Vilen

Lakes Area Multisport, or LAMS as we call ourselves, exists to facilitate a sense of community and collaboration among athletes within the Brainerd Lakes Area and to promote an active and healthy lifestyle.  We were founded in 2011 to be a group of local multi-sport enthusiasts who want an organization to promote exercise as a way of life for our community.  In the past couple years we have grown rapidly and now have over eighty members!

Our vision is to build an inclusive group exemplifying the best of the multi-sport community.  We have mountain bikers, ultra-marathoners, and triathletes of all levels having fun while staying healthy and giving back to the community.  With the help of our wonderful community sponsors we have been able to donate equipment to the Brainerd High School Triathlon Program.  We know it is vitally important to our sport that we help foster young athletes by supporting them with mentorship and equipment.

Did we mention that we like to go fast?  Our members include a few of Minnesota’s best in Michelle Andres, Casey Miller, Sara Carlson, Dave Thomes, and Travis Miller.  The rest of the crew is dang speedy as LAMS has won the Tri Team Challenge the past two years.  We aim to win again this year and now that the snow has finally melted everyone is out there training hard.

We have the luxury of living in Minnesota’s lake country.  There are lots of MTN readers who come up our way for vacation or a long weekend.  LAMS welcomes anyone and everyone to all of our workouts.   If you are coming our way be sure to come for a run, ride, or swim.  You can find us on the net at www.lakesareamultisport.com or find us on Facebook. 

Scheduled events are on our website, but Facebook has the most up to date workouts.