Ahhh…the midwest..so full of oxygen!  I miss racing out there, but this past weekend at the Chisago Lakes Triathlon outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul, I got my fill.  My wife and I raced the 1/2 IM distance and my dad and sister raced the sprint.  It was such a great course and it helps doing all of my training at higher elevation and come to sea level to race.  The skinny of it was that I got a 1/2 Ironman PR at 3:54.20 and was thrilled, plus won a little prize $$.  I have always wanted to break 4 hours and this was the day.  At Ironman Kansas 70.3 Andrew Hodges told me that I could definetly do it, everything just had to line up properly and he was right.  It placed me 4th overall with 2 pros and 1 amateur placing ahead of me, but we started in the same wave so we were all racing pretty close together. 

Congrats to our own Timex team members Jackie Arendt who also placed 4th overall and Mike Lavery as well!  I got to race with Timex’s new Tap watch (a new watch where you “tap” the face of the watch to advance splits instead of pushing a button) and it went well.   Full results are here.

A pair of 4th place finishes!