Man with no arms and legs takes part in triathlon

In last Sunday's Pittsburgh Triathlon, there were a lot of individual competitors and teams with competitors for each event. One team, however, stood out.

That team contained three friends: Jim on the Bike, Ned doing the running, and Craig Dietz doing the swimming. However, Dietz was born with no arms or legs.

"It felt great when I first decided to do it," said Dietz. "I was a little unsure and even leading up to it I was a little unsure. You can swim 100 miles in the pool and it's not going to prepare you for swimming in that river."



"All of my weight is centered, I am extremely buoyant. I can't dive. I wish that I could. I'd like to dive under the water," said Dietz.

In the end, he finished 275th out of 308 participants.

"To think that I was ahead of 35 people just blew my mind", said Dietz. "I would have been happy with 307th, beating one. Not being the last person out of the water would have been a good day for me."

With news video.