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COLUMBUS — Usually, if you are told to go jump in the lake, at the least you can count on cooling off.
Not Saturday morning, when the water temperature at Tipton Lakes Marina was 86 degrees and the contestants in the 15th annual Columbus Challenge Sprint Triathlon dashed into the water as the first leg of the three-segment event combining swimming, bicycling and running.
“The water was hot,” said Scott Jerden, whose bare upper body was equally soaked, though from sweat, after finishing first in the race to benefit Foundation For Youth