Lael Martin

Lael grew up in Topeka, Ks, yes, the place everyone makes fun of, the land of Dorothy and Toto. He started swimming at the age of 10 and swam competitively in high school and a year in college. He was also one of those strange kids that enjoyed doing century bike rides on the weekends with all of the old people. This built his base for getting into multi-sport racing. He did his first triathlon, the Topeka Tinman back in 1978 when he was 18 years old and have been doing them ever since. Lael lives in McKinney with his SO (Significant Other), Terri Jenney, (who also swims, bikes and runs), his other running partner Java, (Chocolate Lab). He works as a Sales Engineer helping to sell On-line transaction processing software to banks and retailers to process electronic payments. He enjoys almost anything outside but especially loves to go Sea Kayaking and Mountain Climbing/backpacking. He is looking forward to this coming racing season and hopefully his body will cooperate and stay injury free this year. Lael has had a chronic case of plantar fasciitis for many years but thanks to Dr. Lyle Haskell in Allen and a new procedure, it seems to be a thing of the past and his training is going well. Along with doing the local races, he plans to focus on Half Ironman distance racing this year and plans to do Ironman Eagleman 70.3. Lael is looking forward to his second year on the Brian Loncar Racing team and working with Scott Eder.