Robi's First Pentathlon Competition

My son, Robi (9 years old) has recently joined MAFC (my former team for playing volleyball) to train and compete in pentathlon. This is the sport where you have to compete in five different events (swimming, fencing, shooting, horseback-riding and running). Very cool sport. At Robi's age they only do two events, swimming and running. Last Saturday we went to Robi's first competition. He has been only training for two months and has improved a lot for those two months. But we still didn't have any huge expectations for him. He did really well. At the swimming event he was faced with an enormous challenge. When he jumped in his goggles fell from his eyes down to his nose and mouth. That made swimming a lot harder than regular condition. He swam the first two laps like that before adjusting the goggles back to his eyes. Obviously he had no prior experience in competitions. I was so proud of him, for the fact that he endured the challenge of the goggles and still didn't give up but continued to swim. Even with that Robi came in 25 out of 30 kids after the swimming and was able to improve to finish on the 24th place after running.

So here are the videos that I took during the event. First the swimming:


Szabad Robi Öttusa Diákseregszemle úszás from Peter Szabad on Vimeo.

Then the running (he's number is 25):


Szabad Robi Öttusa Diákseregszemle futás from Peter Szabad on Vimeo.

Here are the final results of the meet:

There is definitely room for improvement, but it is a good start and I am a proud Daddy to be able to be a part of it.