My daughter and I started walk-break running yesterday. I first read about it in a Wall St. Journal article a couple of years ago. It’s gotten popular via a former Olympian and marathoner named Jeff Galloway.
My daughter’s way out of shape, due to a series of Scoliosis-related back surgeries and then a knee dislocation. And I have never run, due to an old cartilage injury to my knee in college. Add to that my current knee woes (I’ll find out more tomorrow), we looked like a couple of gimps out on the track at Carleton College.
But no matter. It’s something athletic that she and I can do together, along with our regular Frisbee sessions.
In her Father’s Day card, she thanked me for, among other things, teaching her how to ice skate when she was little. I barely remember it, but that made it all the sweeter.