Craig Alexander 3rd and Pip Taylor 5th at Life Time Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis

Australians and Australian born triathletes have dominated this event over the past few years. Emma Snowsill is a three time winner, Loretta Harrop, Craig Alexander and Greg Bennett are also past winners. This weekend Craig and Pip came close. Craig was only a minute behind Reed.

In a repeat of last year’s result Matt Reed and Sarah Haskins have won the 2010 Life Time Fitness Triathlon in Minneapolis. Australians and Australian born triathletes have dominated this event over the past few years. Emma Snowsill is a three time winner, Loretta Harrop, Craig Alexander and Greg Bennett are also past winners.

Craig Alexander was third and exacted some revenge over Greg Bennett (8th) who beat him by ten seconds at this years St Anthony’s triathlon in Florida. Craig’s swim and bike were the deciding factors. Reed proved to stong in these two legs.

Pip Taylor was 5th in the women’s event and managed to bank $2500 for her efforts. This is the third race at this distance Taylor has done this season in the USA winning the Kansas City race and placing 4th at Philidelphia. She has also raced in two 70.3 races with a second at Kansas. Pip is 2nd overall in the series

Craig Alexander is about to start a block of large training volume as he heads towards a possible third win in a row at the Ford Ironman World Championship at Kona in October. He has two more races before Kona. Racine IM 70.3 and Muskoka long course triathlon in Canada.

Men’s Results

Place	Name	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Matt Reed	17:56.7	57:00.3	32:30.1	1:48:34.3
2	Matt Chrabot		1:14:53.3	32:38.3	1:48:42.0
3	Craig Alexander	18:18.2	58:04.3	32:14.9	1:49:45.6
4	Filip Ospaly	18:20.2	59:34.3	31:48.2	1:50:49.9
5	Clark Ellice	18:37.6	59:11.2	32:26.8	1:51:23.1
6	Cameron Dye	17:48.1	56:04.9	36:26.4	1:51:28.2
7	David Thompson	19:03.6	57:14.4	33:56.8	1:51:29.6
8	Greg Bennett	19:01.7	58:49.9	33:09.4	1:52:07.9
9	Andrew Starykowicz	18:26.1	57:53.2	35:56.1	1:53:30.2
10	John Kenny	18:00.6	1:02:17.8	34:53.8	1:56:39.6
11	Devon Palmer	19:41.6	59:23.6	38:16.1	1:58:37.7
12	Nicholas Vandam	17:52.3	1:03:34.3	36:22.0	1:59:01.4
13	Henry Hagenbuch	21:50.0	1:03:18.1	33:36.8	1:59:52.0

Women’s Results

Place	Name	Swim	Bike	Run	Time
1	Sarah Haskins	22:21.6	1:03:32.0	36:39.9	2:03:49.1
2	Rebeccah Wassner	22:20.6	1:04:20.2	37:40.8	2:05:41.4
3	Mary Beth Ellis		1:26:47.0	39:22.5	2:07:36.9
4	Sara McLarty	21:17.7	1:04:33.9	44:01.9	2:11:17.3
5	Pip Taylor	22:22.2	1:07:31.8	40:34.1	2:11:48.6
6	Jenny Fletcher	25:25.1	1:07:09.7	40:18.5	2:14:21.3
7	Emily Shoopman	28:38.8	1:08:18.8	43:11.8	2:21:42.1

Past Winners
• 2009 – Sarah Haskins & Matt Reed
• 2008 – Emma Snowsill & Simon Whitfield
• 2007 – Vanessa Fernandes & Greg Bennett
• 2006 – Emma Snowsill & Hunter Kemper
• 2005 – Emma Snowsill & Craig Alexander
• 2004 – Loretta Harrop (& Craig Walton)*
• 2003 – Barb Lindquist (& Simon Whitfield)*
• 2002 – Barb Lindquist (& Craig Walton)*

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Karl Hayes

Karl is a Gold Coast based father of 3, a keen home improver and an age group triathlete who races on the M5 Acadamies triathlon team. ‘A good life balance is incredibly important’.

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