Working Out With Taylor

Today was enjoyable in that I was able to go on a nice easy run with my daughter Taylor. She's on the high school track team, so she's already familiar with running and is in pretty good running shape. We had a nice time running and talking together and best of all, I was more impressed with her running ability than previous. I new she was pretty good, but I didn't really know how good. Well, I can certainly tell that she genuinely loves running and the feeling it gives you.

We ran for about 40 minutes and later that afternoon she even went to her high school track practice and ran some more. After her practice, I picked her up and took her with me to the swim complex where I had tri swim practice. There, she decided to run some more! I was a bit taken aback to say the least. If she stays on a path like this, she'll be the world's most fit teenager! I've been proud of how she's taken to eating more healthy and trying to get in some daily exercise.

As for me, I went ahead and did the full swim practice with foot cramps and all! It's an area of frustration for me. I'm sure it has something to do with hydration or nutrition or something. Anyway, I press on.

Today I felt truly blessed to have gotten to spend some valuable time with my little girl and continue to teach her something that will stay with her for the rest of her life. Health is one of the true gifts that God bestows upon us to be good stewards of.

Good luck to all who are running in the Country Music Marathon this weekend. Hopefully, I'll be able to join you next year.

Sunday Afternoon Swim

The day was absolutely picturesque today. Troy and I felt like we HAD to do something active training-wise. So we decided to go to the Rec Center pool and do some swimming. What I didn't realize was that there was already a triathlon swim training class going on that was being coached by my former swim coach. She immediately asked me to come over and jump in a lane and go through the hell that she was putting the others through. In some sadistic way, that actually appealed to me so off I went and jumped in the middle of the training. It was great and I was pleased with where my swimming fitness level was because I didn't wane at all compared to the rest of the swimmers. That felt good.

This all happened before Troy arrived because I happened to get there early. When Troy got there, I ended up moving over and swimming with him for another 45 minutes. So in essence, we got quite a workout in. 

It felt great and was arguably our best swim workout to date. Due to that and talking to the coach, I think we may join the class once we've finished our Suncoast Triathlon in late October. It'll definitely help in our technique and overall water fitness. We're really into all this crap! It's actually kind of funny but amazing. It's great to see how much Troy is in to this. He's like a kid in a candy store and he's certainly getting his fill.