Dazed and Confused

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I have a six year old boy. He is NOT fat, in fact he is a little scrawny. But today I wanted to go for a run because tomrorow I will be doing an 8 km (5 mile) run known as the Shamrock Shuffle. The point was to take it easy today as I will be running hard in the AM.

At first I offred my boy the option to run with me. But then, since I figured 5 miles might be a little far for a six year old, I told him he could bike after me...and his bike has training wheels. This is an extremely flat course.

By mile three, Thomas was screaming and crying, begging me to stop and rest. And an interesting irony occured, an older guy was using the trail to finish up an "Ultra" race, which is well longer than a regualar marathon. He actually asked my boy to borrow his bike!

Too much television and too much gameboy....and too many computer games, I say! From now on....BOOT CAMP for the kids!