Running with My New Triathletes!
My sister and my daughter agreed to go for a little training run. I was playing the role of “coach”, which is to say I tricked them into inspiring each other to workout. Not exactly a workout for me… but at least I got some running in.
The workout for my 8 year old daughter was: a 1 mile bike, then a 0.2 mile run, and a 0.2 mile hike up a hill. Sis and I ran along beside her, so we got a 1.2 mile “jog” and a .2 mile hike back up the hill. We had hoped to go 2 mile bike, then .5 mile run… so that my daughter could get a feel for the distances of her upcoming triathlon.
Unfortunately… the road which we measured on the map as more than a mile long, actually turned out to only be less than half a mile long… and it was far too hilly, so we found a tenth mile long stretch of it that was mostly flat and did laps. But mostly flat, was not actually flat, and so even the slight hill was a drain on both daughter and sisters energy stores.
Daughter did learn a valuable lesson about the bike to run transition… as she jumped off her bike and started running full speed, she was pretty much spent after only a tenth of a mile… She remember that her PE teacher in school had encouraged them to “take it slow at the start of a run, and save your burst of energy for when you see the finish line”… Oh yeah… that’s a good idea!
It was a fun workout for all.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 07/22/2008
- Total Time: 00:20:00.00
- Average Heart rate: 110
- Max Heart rate: 130
- Distance: 1.4 miles
- Average Pace: 14:17.14/mile
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Running with My New Triathletes!
July 26th, 2008 4:15 pm
Sheba's Training Blog · Hill walk/jogging with mini me » Sweat365 » Fitness Community says:
[...] My neice is training for a tri too… so we did some training together. Brad used her to trick me into working out and I think he used me to trick her too… We totally want to support each other so it wasn’t a bad trick. [...]