Another triathlon addict is born. Today Jaden did his first triathlon – 50 yard swim, 1 1/2 mile bike, 1/2 mile run. As background, he has been asking to do a triathlon all summer. I finally found one that would let a 5-year old race – the Kids in Training Series. He did a race down in South Raleigh at Eagle Ridge.
Jaden has been very serious about his training. Every day he asked me what we needed to do for training. He has even been turning down the free cookies at the grocery store because “I’m in training”.
So he woke up bright and early this morning rearing to go. At the race, we set up his transition area and he decided just to pin his race number on his little swim suit because “putting on a shirt could take a long time”.
He did a great swim and then raced like a madman to his transition area. Once he got on his bike he was off in a standing climb up the first hill. Mark was volunteering on the race start and said that Jaden was flying and making sure no one passed him. He then took off on his run and didn’t walk for the whole 1/2 mile.
I can’t believe it but he took 3rd in his age group. He was racing against 6 and 7 year olds so this was a big deal. And most important, he had a HUGE smile through-out the whole race and wants to do another one “tomorrow”.
Very cool.
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