Local bloggers cover the Hy-Vee Triathlon
Posted on June 21, 2007 in Sports & Recreation by DM
Here’s a round-up of local blogger coverage of the inaugural Hy-Vee Triathlon, held June 17 here in Des Moines. By all accounts, it sounds like it was a great event - a few glitches here and there but overall I’ve heard good things from the participants about their visits to Des Moines. I hope we welcome them back!
Dan B’s Blog - He was a participant!
Jim Turner, another participant, recaps and offers encouragement for fellow athletes (UPDATE: Jim added photos!)
Nick also participated and includes his results
AnkenyPhoto posts some neat pictures on Flickr
Pete recaps the Triathlon as well as other cycling over the weekend
A few pictures from “the mostly reverend” (scroll down for post, “who IS this guy?”)
More Triathlon pics from Lou Waugaman
A nice recap from Jeff Bratz
A few comments from IM-Everyman
A few course photos over at Around Des Moines
And a complete post-report from the triathlete website, Tri247.
This is by no means a complete list of blogger coverage. If I missed you and you’re a local blogger who posted Triathlon coverage, please send me a note and I’ll add you to the above list. Where are the lady-blogger-triathletes, by the way?
And finally here’s an interesting comment from a St. Louis participant about Des Moines:
Just a quick comment on Des Moines. I have never been there before and I assumed it would just be a complete dump and be populated my redneck farm people. However, I ended up being very wrong and was mildly impressed by the area. Now don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t plan a family vacation to Des Moines but it was a decent place. They had a lot of nice hotels, a decent downtown (busy during the day but dead at night which is typical of midwest cities not counting Chicago), plenty of family activities to do, several very nice “self contained communities”, and a very athlete friendly system of parks and trails (or so it appeared to me). It was pretty easy to get around the city and there were plenty of good places to eat. Also the people were extremely nice and everybody was wishing the athletes good luck and thanking them for coming to Des Moines, etc which was pretty cool.
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Thanks for the link!
Hi Doug, thanks for stopping by, hope to see you again soon! ~ Janet