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Tuesday, 01 March 2011 02:00

(Photo - Dave Schutz with son, Kaler)

Q&A with NEW Life Time Fitness Minneapolis Triathlon Race Director Dave Schutz

By Darin Wieneke

The Life Time Fitness Minneapolis Triathlon is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. If you have experienced this race in the past, you know that Life Time is to Minnesota triathlon what the Academy Awards is to actors. Lifetime is about as glitzy and glamorous as it gets in our triathlon scene. There is a buzz that you start to feel at packet pick-up at the Minneapolis Convention Center, it continues the morning of the race when you witness the sea of bikes in transition, and it reaches a near peak when some of the top professional triathletes in the world toe the line....

Due to the standing of the Life Time triathlon in our community, it seemed noteworthy when MTN heard Dave Schutz, also the founder and race director of Trinona, was named the new race director for the Life Time Fitness Minneapolis Triathlon. We subsequently caught up with Dave and he kindly agreed to answer some questions about his new post and what participants can expect for the 10th Anniversary race.

MTN: What interested you in becoming the Life Time Fitness Triathlon race director?

DS: The opportunity came a bit out of the blue. I think, at first, I wasn