Front Page Photo

Dave is on the front page of the newspaper today - check him out in the bottom left corner.
Dave won the annual Against the Tide swim race that raises money for breast cancer research and patients. The sports section devoted half a page for an article about the swim race and quotes him and the top female swimmer too. Dave and Jessie both won last year too so the headline, in large font, reads "Nielsan, Kennedy Repeat Wins in Annual Breast Cancer Swim". Guess he'll be in tomorrow's paper under the "Corrections" section... (The online competitor news source has an article too.)

Dave swam the 2/3 mile length of Magen's Bay beach in 14 minutes and 39 seconds. He's speedy! Since the race is more of a fundraiser than a race, only first place finishers get prizes and noone really kept track of the times for the rest of the finishers, but we think I finished around 22 minutes in third place for the women. I'll add some photos to this post later showing Dave receiving his trophy. The event raised about $1000. There are some photos online that are available for purchase from a new sporting event photo company.

I recruited a lot of people at work to come swim too - the event allows swimmers, swimmers with fins, or waders to participate. The court was given an award for the most participants from a business, but it turned out later that another group had more people but hadn't all written down the same organization name. Both groups were fed pizza though and we'll both get to keep a trophy. Next week is the women's annual jogger jam 2 mile fun run, so I'm going to try to recruit women again for that event and maybe we can get another trophy!