Our good friends Carlos and Vanesa in Texas have a son name Joaquin. Carlos and Joaquin run in triathlons. When we were at Gospel meeting Sunday afternoon, one of our other friends, Mike C. told me that he and his kids were going to run in a triathlon next summer. I got to thinking that Kelly and Christian really like to swim and might really enjoy doing that, too. Today, they were scheduled to swim a mile at swim team practice. Some of the triathlons listed on Carlos website had swims that were much shorter than that. Of course, the swim is only a third of the race, but there were several races the kids could certainly handle right now. There was a 300 meter swim/11mi bike/2mi run, 750m swim/7mi bike/5k run, 500m swim/14 mi bike/3 mi run, and so on. I think they could make it through any of those. With a little training, they might even be pretty good. It would certainly benefit from getting ready and competing in some of those. I do not think I could keep up with the kids, but it would be a lot of fun. I think I will try to connect up with Mike and Carlos and see how they go about getting their kids ready for one of these.
Note to Christian: Check this out. I wonder if this could be programmed?