Hi from sw Georgia - long

I wanted to say hello, stop lurking and start participaing on the board. I'm a 44 year old dad to three living in a rural area. I started training about 6 wks ago when my wife finally persuaded me to come run with her during her prep for the Danskin Orlando tri.
I ran distance in high school, fairly well, but quit before college. I have always loved the water, and though I have never swam competitively almost all my PE's in college were swimming related, even earned a WSI certificate, and I did do some fitness swimming off and on for a few years. As far as cycling goes, I rode a dept store 10 speed until I got a drivers license - even rebuilt it once, but that's the extent of my cycling experience.
I did take up rowing for about 6 months on a club level eight about 20 years ago, got in decent shape, did one race and that was it. Since then I have been much more focused on family and career, and numerous passing hobbies. While not exactly a slug, I have been far from physically fit.
Now that I have a goal in mind - I am enjoying the training again. I just needed the proper motivation, and as far as mid-life crises go I suppose taking up triathlon is better than most other kinds of trouble I could get into. The swimming is good though slow. Training on the bike is great, but I hate the run. Probably because i used enjoy it and run well. Now the run is killing me, its beating up on one of my knees if I'm not careful, and I feel like I'm crawling along at 10 min/mile. I hope it will get better with time.

Now that I've said hello, you can expect a lot of questions I'm sure. Good luck to all on their upcoming races.

First question: Which screen name would be better TriPappy (TriDad is probably taken) or FastandDirty (My wife's way of poking fun at my Obsessive Compulsive tendancies)?

Darrell