  We consider the problem of counting real ramified covers of
$\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1$ by genus $g$ real Riemann surfaces with ramification
profiles $\lambda$, $\mu$ over $0$, $\infty$ respectively, and with
ramification $(3,1,\ldots,1)$ over other real branch points. The resulted
answers are real double Hurwitz numbers with $3$-cycles. We compute real double
Hurwitz numbers with $3$-cycles via tropical covers, and introduce a lower
bound, which does not depend on the distributions of real branch points, of
these numbers. We give a non-vanishing theorem for the invariant. When the
invariant is non-zero, we obtain a lower bound of a logarithmic asymptotics for
the invariants as the degree tends to infinity. It implies the logarithmic
asymptotic growth of real double Hurwitz numbers with $3$-cycles.
