Displaced Dirt Dad Diversifies Duties Decently!

The following was copied from an email from Florida Dirt Dad Eric. To see the photos you may have to copy and paste the links into your browser.

Hey guys!
I wanted to give everyone an update from Florida. Last Saturday I did my first Triathlon! It was awesome! I was in the 'My First Triathlon' category, and it was split up into age groups, unless you placed in the top 5, then you place in the overall classification for that category. I placed 5th overall, out of about 30 guys (56 with girls)!! I hadn't even trained in three weeks, and I only finished 4 minutes behind the winner in the 'My First Triathlon' group!
Here's some of the details. It was a quarter mile swim, 12.5 mile bike, and 2.65 mile run. I did it in 1:11:44. I started in the back on the swim, because I've never swam competitively, and I came out of the water around 8th-10th. Then the bike was good of course. I started picking people off, I moved up to 3rd or so. Then on the run I got passed in the first mile, and passed on the last stretch by people I think were in my category, otherwise I didn't get passed.
I really really had a lot of fun. I'll be training for another one, hopefully I have time to train this time!!
Here's some links to photos;
http://grayquetti.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?evgroupid=72&userid=Gray&gallery_id=1657838&image_id=103&pos=104
http://grayquetti.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?evgroupid=72&userid=Gray&gallery_id=1657343&image_id=134&pos=135
http://grayquetti.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?evgroupid=72&userid=Gray&gallery_id=1657343&image_id=275&pos=276

Later!
Eric (Red Dog)

P.S. I beat all of the girls in my category

Lumberjack, Holland Hundred, & North Country Trail

Bob & Tim finished the grueling Lumberjack 100 mountain bike race in under 11 hours on June 20. Great endurance job on the Big M trail, guys! Feel free to add details.

JP & HP biked the Holland Hundred road ride on July 18. We averaged a respectable 17.3 mph. It was cool and dry but windy. Tim, I pointed out to JP the "double-flat pothole" from last year. Some of you may know Gene from Haworth on the left side of the photo. He rode with us for the wet 2008 Holland Hundred.

The North Country Trail ride near Balwin is planned for next weekend, July 31-August 2. Details later.