I woke up in quite a thick mental fog this morning after Kris & Robyn Jones’ beautiful Pepperwedding. Fortunately my phone rang and Brock Siegel, Pepperjam’s VP of Biz Dev, had just the cure: a few hours on the lake before catching my flight back to Minneapolis. As we cruised around the lake, Brock mentioned that this was the lake he recently completed a 1 mile swim on as part of the Wilkes-Barre triathlon he did with Kris Jones and Mike Jones. Marcus Tandler mentioned that he was quite the swimmer himself. I was pretty sure a challenge had presented itself, and being the gambler that I am I offered $100 to the winner of a swimming race. Marcus protested that he had just taken down half a pizza and some chicken wings, but a little peer pressure was all that was needed to get the ball rolling. The course was specified by me and the race was on. Marcus got a ferocious start, and it wasn’t looking good for Brock. The tide turned though, at the half-way mark when Marcus ran out of steam and Brock’s tenacity came through. And the winner: