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The Multi-Sport season begins early with Tri Fitness. Cinco “Du” Mayo is a Duathlon: a Run-Bike-Run event held at Square Lake Park in Stillwater, MN.
Now, before you start reading too far into the name of our event, let us clear a few things up. We are not commemorating the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5th in 1862...with a Duathlon.
As happy as we are for General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguínwe and his army of 4,000 decisively crushing the (8,000 strong) French army, the best army at the time, and might we add, one that had not been defeated for almost 50 years (thanks Wikipedia!), we really don’t see much connection between the two...so that would be weird.
This event isn’t even held on May 5th every year...It’s held on the first Saturday in May, no matter the date.
Here’s how it really happened: We have a race in early May. This race happens to fall somewhat close to Cinco De Mayo. the “De” sounds a lot like “Du” (you can see where this is going...) which is what Multi-Sport athletes say when they don’t want to expend the extra energy to articulate two more syllables (a true Multi-Sport athlete saves energy whenever they can!). Thus was born the, Cinco “Du” Mayo.
So we race. And then we eat tacos...tasty, tasty, tacos. |
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Square Lake Regional Park
15450 Square Lake Trail N
Stillwater, MN 55082
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