Source: People Online

Matt Damon decided last minute to participate in the Escape to Miami Triathlon Sunday morning because of encouraging words from his brother, Kyle.

Kyle finished Sunday in 27th place with a time of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 40 seconds. Matt’s time for his 6.2-mile portion of the challenge was 59 minutes and 54 seconds.

Matt ran in a team that consisted his stepfather, Jay Jones, and family friend, Barry Hetherington.

His wife, Luciana Bozan Barroso, and the couple’s 7-week-old daughter, Gia, waited for the four at the finish line, along with a lot of thrilled fans who didn’t expect to see Matt running in the race.

His role in The Informant, in which he gained 20 to 30 pounds for the part, is what really encouraged him to run. He said, ”I’ve got to get in shape for the next thing I’m doing.”

IMDB.com Synopsis
The Informant, based on Kurt Eichenwald’s 2000 book of the same title, tells the tale of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), an Ivy League Ph.D. who was a rising star at Decatur’s Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s. He wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price fixing tactics and became the highest-ranked executive to ever turn whistleblower in U.S. history. Whitacre secretly gathered hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes over several years to present to the FBI which became one of the largest price fixing cases in history. Throughout the story, Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with bipolar disorder.

The Informant is set to come out March 27th, 2009

By Tessa Petrocco