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3rd Place in my 1st Olympic Distance Triathlon

matt | August 28, 2010

I did my 1st Olympic Distance Triathlon today. It was the first ever Maple Grove Triathlon. It was almost a mile swim, 26 mile bike and 10K run (6.2 miles). It was the hardest race I have done in recent memory. I learned that you MUST take more feeds at this distance. The organizers did a great job putting on the event and it was a perfect day for a triathlon. 

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can you see the pain…legs cramping

!new pic from Mark Lahtinen

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Run for Snow

matt | August 22, 2010

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Thank you Dave and Renee

 

 

This weekend the family and I packed up and went to Madison for the second annual Run for Snow. This run benefits the CXC adopt an athlete program and I am Madison’s adopted athlete. I must admit I was a little nervous bringing a 2 year old and 13 month old for a 4 ½ hour car ride (each way) however, they did amazingly well. Grant even did his first race, well sort of. Once he saw Marybeth he wanted to run to her. However, I think a few more training sessions with the old man and he’ll be able to finish. I did the 14.5K race and ran a time of 52:50, I think. There was a great turnout and our family had a fun weekend!

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A Triathlon and a parade

matt | August 17, 2010

So this Sunday was a little busy.  I had the Lake Marion Triathlon in the morning and the Long Lake Corn Days Parade in the afternoon and then went into work.

The triathlon went well for about the first 300ft and then I had a bout of water boarding.  After floating around for a couple minutes throwing up water I was ready to complete the rest of the tri.  I finished 5th overall after a terrible swim but the bike and run went very well.

After my tri I was able to represent Gear West at the Corn Days festival.  Lots of fun and lots of candy for my kids!

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RingerRoll double

matt | August 7, 2010

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So instead of racing once I decided to race twice!  First 10k I used the standard Marwe 610 skate ski and tried to beat myself from two years ago on marwes.  I was about 20 seconds slower but I think deep down I knew I was racing another 10k immediately following the first 1ok. 

For the 2nd lap I was able to break the course record on Elpex Race skis… those things are silly fast but racing back to back was a lot tougher than I thought it was going to be.

Check out skinnyski.com for results and pics (thanks for coming out Bruce!) 

After the race Marybeth and I spent the rest of my day off from work landscaping.  I’ll get a picture up once we finish… nothing like moving a few thousand pounds of rock after a race.

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