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BLAINE & ALBERT LEA PREVES...Updated...

blaine-weather.gifBLAINE PREVIEW -  For grinzies, let's make some predictions about this great young event, which will celebrate it's third anniversary next Saturday. First of all, we believe that the race will hit its enrollment ceiling by the end of the week, so please sign-up at your earliest opportunity, okay?

- Next, race day weather should be awesome, even awesomer than the conditions at Oakdale, which were ideal (60ish, clear and light winds). Check out Weather.com's forcast for the 17th (see graphic)....

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Lucky 13...

oakdale-logo.gifSeveral days ago, Uncle Randy (Fulton) sent us a copy of his Oakdale Duathlon entry list. After a glance, we got excited. Registrations were coming in a brisk pace and it looks like the event may eventually field between 400 and 500 entrants.

Though most elite athletes are not early enrollees, we were impressed with the depth of the field thus far, and assume that, by race day, Oakdale will be more competitive than ever.

The race will celebrate its 13th anniversary on May 10, though some may claim that it is actually a 25-30-year-old event, one that started in Mahtomedi (we think?) in the 80s. Uncle Randy would probably agree...

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COLT Stuff...

 

COLT-LOGO.gifRace Preview - The 12th annual Chain of Lakes Triathlon will be staged in Alex on Saturday. A guy asked us if we could name the winners of all 11 prior editions of COLT and we said we could.We didn't tell the guy that we had to peek at our notes....

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Rhodes Scholars & Shiny Blue Dresses...

mike-and-dog.gifRace Preview - The Take the Hill Tri will celebrate its 7th anniversary on Saturday. Starting and finishing on the Gustavus Adophus campus in St. Peter, the event's proceeds benefit "Insulindependence," which is designed to unite, expand and support the active diabetes community.

Because the MTN Guys are totally into out state's tri history, we decided to share some Take the Hill's chronology. Here are the winners dating back to 2009. The event launched in '08, but we were unable to unearth those results.

TAKE THE HILL TRIATHLON - 500yd Pool Swim - 12.5 mile bike - 3.3. mile run

2013 - Nick De Leeuw - 1:02:42 & Lauren Slagel - 1:17:21

2012 - Paul Mollett - 1:06:41 & Lauren Slagel - 1:16:34

2011 - Connor Ziegler - 1:03:33 & Lauren Slagel - 1:15:12 - Race Record ...

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Taco Saturday...

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Race Preview - The 7th annual Cinco Du Mayo Long Course Duathlon (5K - 20M -5K) will happen next Saturday at beautiful Square Lake northwest of Stillwater. Contested concurrently will be the 5th edition of Cinco's Short Course (2m - 10m - 2m). Early registration pace suggests that these great events will draw a combined 300-400 participants, and we hope that you are among those who will be on hand....

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"Juno" & Retro Shorts...

bette.gifRace Preview - The 30th edition of the Morris Tinman will take place next Saturday. The 1k-30k-10k event is our state's annual outdoor tri kickoff event and we hope it has a record turnout.

The race actually started 31 years ago but the 2008 edition had to be cancelled due to a 14-inch snowdump on the eve of the event. According to Weather Underground the conditions for next Saturday's race will not include snow and temps should be in the low 50s.

Last year's Tinman was won by Ryan DeYounge of Fergus Falls, and Apple Valley's Bette Rowley. Do you know them? We only know them by their race results, so in order to learn more about them, we visited their Facebook pages. We discovered that in addition to being fine athletes, they appear to be very cool  people.

Bette has great taste in movies. We know this because she likes many of the same movies that the MTN Guys like. One of her faves is "Juno," which, in our opinion, was the awesomest movie of 2007....

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