Race Coverage
Cathy & Claire. Claire & Cathy...
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011 03:00
(Great YndeCam Photos - Cathy emerging from Weaver Lake & Claire in total hammer mode. Hey, go to Kerry Yndestad's Facebook page and check out his phenomenal photo coverage of the MG & TriStar races.)
Maple Grove Olympic - Five years and three weeks ago Minnesota Athlete of the Decade, Cathy Yndestad, was beaten at Turtleman by fellow Minnesotan, Heidi Keller-Miler, and honorary Minnesotan, Marnie Walth.
That was the last time that CY has finished behind a Loon State woman in a triathlon.
Until Saturday, that is.
Four days ago Cathy blasted out of T2 at the Maple Grove Olympic Triathlon knowing that she better put close to a half mile (3 minutes) under her Kwicky Blades before Claire Bootsma got off her bike. Less than that would be fatal. Claire is just too fast afoot....
Not Too Many "K"s....
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Monday, 29 August 2011 03:00
TriStar 111 - Shortly after Wanda finished the 2nd annual Maple Grove Olympic Triathlon yesterday, a friend asked her why she didn't do the 111?
"Too many 'K's," she puffed, hands on her knees.
For 112 folks, however, the 111 kilometer challenge, was not excessive. For them, there were not too many Ks.
The inaugural TriStar 111-Minnesota, which was the US debut of a two-year-old international Series, was won by German distance star, Maik Twelsiek, in an outrageous 3:12:45, which was eight seconds faster than Thomas Hellreigel's previous Series record, set in Estonia in June. Twelsiek is a former Ironman Lake...
Sunday Results & Stuff...UPDATED..
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Sunday, 28 August 2011 12:58
LAKES COUNTRY TRIATHLON - The final race of the 2011 Tri Minnesota Series was highlighted by another win--his 2nd in a week and 4th of his career--for Duluth's Josh Blankenheim, who ran down rising star Marcus Stromberg of Buffalo, and the 7th victory of the season for Michelle Andres, who is the fastest mother-of-five in East Gull Lake. Michelle's time was a course record 1:21:47, which lowered Becky Youngberg's previous CR set in 2008 by 2:27. *
Blankenheim (photo L), who is a totally decent fellow who loves his dog very much, turned in a brisk 1:15:03. Only Steve Sander (1:14:21 in 2009) has covered this route (.5 - 17.3 - 3.9) in a faster time. RESULTS
MINNEAPOLIS DU - This morning run-bike-run was won by 47-year-old Michael Danielson and Meghan Mason. Fifteen hundred-ish folks finished the event, which bills itself as the "World's Largest Duathlon," which it might be if you don't count...
Maple Grove / TriStar Stuff...
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Saturday, 27 August 2011 15:17
(Archive Photos - TriStar 111 male amateur champion Matt Payne. Maple Grove Olympic female winner Claire Bootsma)
Stuff from today's Maple Grove Triathlon - Lots more to come....
1st annual TriStar 111 - Minnesota - Pro Men -
Kingswood Off Road Tri Stuff...
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Friday, 26 August 2011 03:00
By Sean Pease
Race Coverage - It was a beautiful and crisp Saturday morning. Light rain clouds shimmered in the distance out and beyond the horizon. Sun glowing behind the clouds. As I exited the hotel that morning I knew, despite anything else, it would be an ideal day to race.
Kingswood Off-Road Triathlon is one of the state's only true off road triathlons. I was stoked that this was my first try at such a thing, and more importantly, my first triathlon of the season (being a race director assistant keeps me from racing as much as I'd like). I loaded up the car and headed west toward Minnetrista...where ironically my wife grew up, and a city which holds a little slice of heaven on Little Long Lake, Kingswood Camp....
