Completed w3r2 yesterday and my 7 year old daughter was desperate to come along. I was sceptical, however it sort of went like this...
Daddy, come on!
Daddy, why are we walking, shouldn't we be running?
Look Daddy, I can run backwards as fast as you can run forwards
Daddy, can you fix Spotify for me?
Daddy, what's for dinner (whilst skipping round me)?
Daddy, why is your face very red?
I was so distracted I hadn't realised I'd finished and actually ran the 5 minutes warm down in error!!!!
Oh, and for the stretches at the end she can literally bend double, and still talk all the way through it all. Morale of the story. Take a 7 year old with you. Total motivator!!
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At that Santa 5K I mentioned earlier the starter said before the event began to tell parents of children under 10 year old who were taking part not to let the kids out of their site during the race knowing quite well that the kids could outrun their parents, not sure what did happen duting the race as there were quite a few youngsters coming in sub 30. 😊.
There were some parents like that, perhaps some of those youngsters who at the moment can run a sub 30 minute 5k won't be able to do it when they are the parents of 8 year old children who can. 😊 Even by the time they are teenagers they may have lost the momentum of running at all, hope not, but it has happened in the past.
that sounds so cute, but by the time you graduate she probably will be able to run a sub 30 minute 5K before you can, there are many under 10's who have done that on a regular basis.
Haha my 7 year old is desperate to run with me to. So I compromised and took her to a junior park run. This worked in my favour as it was just before week 5 run 3 (20 min run) and we run the park run slowly but with out stopping in 14 mins but gave me the confidence to realise I’d definitely be able to do the 20 min run.
Thats my aim too. She is nervous of Parkrun but I've registered both of us (and my 11 year old), and week 5 sounds about right for junior parkrun. I'll take her down this weekend so she can just see what it's like. She will ace it!
Great post! So cute. It had me chuckling. Your 7 year old sounds very active. It makes me nostalgic. My now 18 year old was much like that at that age.
Thanks for everyone's kind comments and warm welcome to the forum. Just completed W3R3 in the midst of storm Gareth. Loved it! Will keep you posted on progress and will also give you an insight into running with my 11 year old daughter (it's more fashion conscious than with a 7 year old!)
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