Race Coverage

Dani is Awesome...

Saturday, 08 November 2014 00:10

ED. Until we stumbled upon the post below, we did not know that DANI FISCHER's victory at USAT Long Course Nationals last June was her debut effort at 70.3, making  the fact that her time--4:23:37--was the fastest of the season by an amateur American female even more awesome. (Great YndeCam Photo of Dani at Life Time Tri - Minneapolis)

By Kelly Hill (MLive.com)

ADA – Wausau, Wis.,native Dani Fischer has been out of the country only once, when she visited Canada.

Her first trip out of North America could be to Sweden.

Fischer, 25, who is a full-time pharmacist in Wausau, won the USA Triathlon Long Course National Championship Sunday morning at the Grand Rapids Triathlon, thereby qualifying for next year's World Championships in Sweden. She completed the 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run in 4 hours, 23 minutes and 37 seconds....

“Cloud nine, I am on cloud nine,” Fischer said moments after beating runner-up Kirsten Sass by more than four minutes. “This has always been the goal, but until it actually happens you never know what it feels like. This is what I had been dreaming about all winter, and it was a long, difficult winter.”

One of the snowiest winters in history, last winter was particularly challenging for world-class triathletes attempting to train in the upper Midwest.

“We put in a lot of miles on the treadmill,” Fischer said Sunday. “It too everything you had inside you to not go insane.” READ MORE