3000 meter "Dash"?

August 20, 2008

On Monday evening we went to the park across the street.  There’s a pathway that encircles the park that is somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 mile.  There’s a marker we’ve seen before that says the distance but it was getting dark so we couldn’t find it.  Anyway, when we got there, Logan said he wanted to “wun fo a minute and exohcise”.   So he took off – and didn’t stop until 6 laps later!  Actually that’s not totally true.  He stopped long enough each time he passed to ask if he could go again.  Julie wanted him to stop after 3 laps – she thought he was going to pass out or something – but I wanted to see how long he could go.  He finally said he was ready to go after 6 laps but he didn’t even look that tired.  I think he could have gone more.  He looked so funny too — totally reminded me of Dash on The Incredibles with his little legs just a blur and his little hands clenched in these tight fists.  Actually his only complaint afterwards was that his hands hurt from making fists for that long.  HAHA!  He actually was pretty fast too.  I don’t know for sure how long, but it was definitely less than 20 minutes.  Peyton tried to run with him about halfway through but couldn’t for very long.  And Soren did 11 trips on his bike in that time.  A 4 year old running 1.5 – 2 miles in less than 20 minutes seems like it’s pretty good to me.    I wondered if this had something to do with watching the Olympics but I don’t think he had really seen much of the track events by then since everything we watched was mostly swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball.  But somehow, he got the running bug.  I said to Julie after, that we need to take him to the park every night and just let him run.

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