Mack has decided to try a couple of youth triathlons this summer. He already runs and he’s getting better at swimming. At his swim meet this week he got new personal bests in both of his events, smashing his backstroke time by almost ten seconds.

The problem is the bike. We just bought him his first real bike a couple of weeks ago, and I only taught him to ride last week. He’s not the best at…balancing. Great at crashing with style, though.

Anyway, he’s working on it. After that swim meet he came straight home and rode a 1.3-mile bike loop that we measured out in our neighborhood. (That’s the distance for this triathlon.) He beat his best time on that by four and a half minutes.