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MJET team interview at 2008 Hy-Vee Triathlon

I got the chance to interview the Batteries Plus Minnesota Junior Elite Team (MJET) team at the 2008 Hy-Vee Triathlon. Who are they? They are the first Junior Elite team to ever base themselves out of the Midwest, USA, and they comprise eight (4 girls/4 guys) promising young triathletes. Mr. Anthony Phillips placed 5th [...]

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Hy-Vee ITU World Cup Triathlon Video 6: Men’s Layout and Bike

Hy-Vee ITU World Cup Triathlon Video 6: Men’s transition layout and first laps of the 8 lap bike course.  I did not make it to the swim start for the guys because I was busy trying to interview female competitors plus eating lunch with my wife.  It was hard to find a good place to [...]

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Official Minneman Triathlon Results

While I was out hiking in the wilderness north of Duluth and totally unconnected to the outside world, one of the favorite triathlons in our state took place at the 2008 Minneman Triathlon. David Thompson racked another victory overall, Curt Wood beat all the male amateurs, and Cathy Yndestad set another female record in [...]

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• Man this video is crazy. There is a guy in China that has been living out of his bike while he travels around promoting the Olympics in Beijing. The Wall Street Journal filmed this One World, One Dream, One Bike video - If I meet him I will get a video for sure!: | Permalink |
• This latest Hunter Kemper podcast interview with Bob Babbitt and Paul Huddle on competitorradio.com gives you a much more personal view into the life of our last Olympic qualifier for Beijing.  He even mentions how Hy-Vee gave families around the triathlon course $500 gift certificates for dealing with the traffic - that is just one more point for Hy-Vee putting on the best triathlon year to date... | Permalink |
• So we all know these young kids have been ripping it out on the race scene and beating tons of more experienced triathletes (who have $8k in race day equipment) - but do you ever wonder who they are and what their specific results have been?  Head on over to the MJET home at  scsmultisport.com/mjet/index.html and check it out yourself.   | Permalink |
• Came out a few days ago, but an interesting interview from ex-triathlete magazine Jay Prasuhn as he asks Chris "Macca" McCormack in a Road Bike Action Magazine article titled "MACCA FORGES A DEFENSE: A CHAT WITH HAWAII IRONMAN CHAMP CHRIS MCCORMACK." | Permalink |
• The two time Ironman World Champion Normann Stadler has decided to leave Kuota behind and sign on with Scott. Since Cam Brown left Scott to go to Pinarello, Scott must have been looking to land a top triathlete and they sure did with the Normanator.  When I head downstairs at GW and look at the Kuota "Hawaii record" poster on the wall it still shocks me that someone could go 4:18 for 112 miles.  We'll get a chance to see THE duel of the summer on July 6th when Chris McCormack heads to the European Ironman Championship in Frankfurt to battle Normann, Faris Al Sultan, Cam Brown, and Eneko and Hektor Llanos (last year there were 450,000 spectators!). Here is an old story I wrote about Scott. | Permalink |
• The first ever RochesterFest Triathlon seems to have gone off with a bang with Cathy Yndestad and Sam Hauck (he's only 24 and beat Lovaas and Penticoff!) winning the overall Olympic race.  I don't know much about the race and I've only been to Rochester once in my life, but the race is located at winmultisportevents.com and the official RochesterFest Triathlon results are here. | Permalink |
• David shares with the online crowd his race diary on insidetri.com (second victory at the Philadelphia Triathlon!).  He also of course posts on his own website at thompsontri.com David had been feeling sick here in the last month but seems to have recovered as he builds up to THE race in Minnesota - the Lifetime Fitness Triathlon.   I'm thinking of making a pre-race video for it so stay tuned for that, plus now that some life stuff is settling down I am hoping to make a journey to the DKT batcave to pick his brain and deliver it on video to you all. | Permalink |
• Packet Pickup for the Lake Waconia Triathlon has a new wrinkle this year in that you can pick it up at Gear West on Friday from 3-6pm. The on site times are 5:00 pm to 8 pm, Saturday, June 28th @ Lake Waconia Regional Park (the race site) and Race Day Sunday June 29th 6:30 am to 8 am. They also changed the bike to 25 miles and it looks like they are doing "time trial" swim start... www.lakewaconiatriathlon.net. My training has not been what I've wanted to do so we'll so how I do, time to suck it up and just race. · | Permalink |
• This was supposed to be a longer post based on my experience at the Buffalo triathlon (race report still due).  But the main thing to ask yourself is this: when you see the 2 mile marker left do you get excited or do you think "gosh 2 miles left." The only way to finish strong in a triathlon is if you practice it, again_and_again. So decide this summer that even if it's hot, or it's windy, or you are tired, pace yourself to finish strong - in every single triathlon I have ever seen those that finish best are those that do not fade.  Plus passing people in the last mile will give you more adrenaline than three red bulls with cherries on top. | Permalink |