Run With Daughter

My daughter the swimmer has decided that she wants to try a triathlon this year. So I have her signed up for my early spring triathlon in April. She was there last year when I did this triathlon as my very first one. She is going to be doing the “novice” division which is a super-sprint distance while I do the sprint distance.

She is a good swimmer, but fears the open water right now, so this is the perfect triathlon for her as it has a pool swim. It is only a 200y pool swim before she hops on the bike for a 6-mile ride and a 1 mile run. She started to do some bike riding last summer on her mother’s hand me down bike and that’s what she will use for this race too.

Like her father, she HATES running. But it is a part of the sport, so we must find a way to do it. So now that her swim team season is finished, she came with me to the YMCA to get a run in. She did a mix of walk/jog while I did my run on the track. She was all smiles, which means she didn’t work hard enough. But now she has some data to go by and the next time she can try and do a little faster.

My workout went surprisingly well. I have been pretty consistent at getting 3.7-3.8 miles in that 45 minutes, while keeping my HR around 145. Today after 3 miles I started doing the math and I thought that I might get 4 miles in today in the same time and I did!

I didn't change anything, just did what I normally do and this was the result. Maybe I was just well rested, or my dinner provided an extra boost but I felt great all during my run tonight. It is nice to see an improvement. I don't know if it will "stick" or not, but it was fun to see the improvement and feel good doing it.