Mindemoya's Run-Paddle-Pedal Triathlon was held this Sunday on Manitoulan Island. The unique event starts with a 5.5k run, next is the canoe and last up is the bike. You can do it solo, pairs or teams.

I noticed a few locals and some Sudbury Rocks!! members in the results - we have a few on the Island.

Good going all! Check out the results here.

Canada's Milne surprises at Harry Jerome Track Classic
Last Updated: Saturday, June 21, 2008 | 11:54 PM ET

Paul Gains CBC

Sports Athletics Canada might have expected two runners would achieve the men's 1,500-metre Olympic standard but no one could have predicted that 26-year-old Taylor Milne would be one of them.

The Guelph, Ont., native beat a top-class field at the Harry Jerome Track Classic in Burnaby, B.C., Saturday afternoon to equal the Olympic A-plus standard of 3:36.00 and virtually book his ticket for the Beijing Olympics.

"A couple of weeks ago I ran 3:39.00 and I did some leading in that race, so I knew there were a couple of more seconds there," said Milne. "I told people I wouldn't be super surprised but I would have to have a great race. Three and a half seconds (improvement) is way more than I thought I had."

Grant Robison of Mountain View, Calif., was second in 3:37.22 and Mexico's Juan Luis Barrios third in 3:37.87.

Canadian record holder Kevin Sullivan, who has run 3:35.78 this season and is already assured a place on what will be his third consecutive Canadian Olympic team, hung on for fourth in 3:38.40.

Sullivan had planned to lead the third lap to help Nathan Brannen, his friend and former University of Michigan teammate, after the designated pacemaker, Ryan McKenzie, dropped out at 800 metres.

"Earlier in the week I talked to the meet director and said I would rabbit at 1,200 metres for Nate to get standard and then race whoever was still there," Sullivan said. "Taylor moved really well through the last 300 metres but I couldn't respond. But all in all, with the 800 metres race I had in Victoria on Thursday night it's been a good weekend of work for me."

Milne, a graduate of High Point University in North Carolina, is originally from Calendar, Ont., a small community near North Bay. He moved to Guelph to train with coach Dave Scott-Thomas three summers ago.

"I am going to train for the nationals, work on the gears and get ready for championship racing because anything can happen," Milne said.

He and Sullivan need only to finish in the top four at the national championships in Windsor, Ont., to secure a place on the team. It was Brannen's fourth time chasing the standard in as many weeks and he admitted he was drained following his latest effort.

"I just tried hard and I feel mentally and physically tired after going after it every week for the last four weeks," said Brannen, the Commonwealth Games silver medallist.

He will try one more time at the Canadian Olympic trials.

"I think I will be fine to go back and get two weeks training," he said. "That's the one thing I have been lacking with racing every weekend. I think a down week to physically and mentally get everything right will help. If it doesn't happen at nationals it doesn't happen. I know it's there. It's just been too much."

Brannen, who is from Cambridge, Ont., had spinal surgery to repair a ruptured disc on Nov. 29 last year and missed four months of valuable training time. His performances have been astonishing considering his plight. On Saturday, he finished sixth in 3:38.70.