Race Coverage

Cruser & Steinke Rock at Whipple...

Monday, 29 August 2016 03:10

By Mike Aulie (brainerddispatch.com)

BAXTER—After finishing second last year, 29-year-old Wade Cruser from Sauk Rapids cruised to a first-place finish with a 3:43 margin of victory in the Lakes Country Triathlon Sunday.

Winning the female division was 16-year-old cross country runner Lauren Steinke (photo) from St. Cloud Tech.
The race began at 8:30 a.m. with a quarter-mile swim in Whipple Lake, then switched to a 14-mile bike through the rolling hills hills surrounding the lakes area and ended with a flat 3.2-mile run through Baxter.

Cruser was second after the swim, 45 seconds behind Corey Kuglin of Baxter. Cruser then built a 2:22 lead after the bike segment and extended his lead to 3:43 at the finish, completing the course in 58:33....

Cruser placed second last year, four seconds behind Larry Hosch from St. Joseph who did not compete this year because of injury.

Baxter's Casey Miller, 38, finished second in 1:02.16. He was 10th after the swim and in third place after the bike. Thomas Anderson III of Minneapolis finished third in 1:02.54. Kuglin, 25, finished fourth in 1:04.18. READ MORE