Calci Kids Kiwitri 2005

Well, hav­ing popped down to Kil­birnie pool on Sun­day morn­ing for the tra­di­tion­al swim­ming les­son for the 5yo, and a splash around with my 2yo, I was a bit tak­en aback to find half of Welling­ton con­gre­gat­ing in the park, hav­ing just fin­ished their 8km Round the Bays run (my lack of blog­ging it did­n’t seem to have had any impact on num­bers).

Feel­ing a bit abashed at the phys­i­cal exer­tions of the rest of the city’s cit­i­zens I have thus resolved to par­tic­i­pate in the upcom­ing Cal­ci Kids Kiwitri — a fun duathlon I can do with my 5yo, and which I hearti­ly encour­age oth­er par­ents to enter as well. The parent/child race com­pris­es of a 100m run (child), then 500m run (adult, I’m pret­ty sure I can still make it this far), then the child runs to the pool and swims/walks 50m (2 lengths) in the learn­ers pool, then runs to the fin­ish line. No bike required. Easy.

For the old­er chil­dren there’s also age-group (7–8, 9–10, 11–12) indi­vid­ual and team triathlon events. The races take place on the 6th of March. Full details over at the Feel­ing­Great web­site.