Today I ran 4km for the first time in at least 22 years. I doubt I’ve run that far more than a dozen times in my life. I did it without stopping, except for two small breaks to suck in some air and blow my nose (I thought you needed to know that).
Yesterday I ran 3km in 15 minutes and 56 seconds. I thought that was fairly good until tonight when I learnt that 11-year-old boys run the distance in less than 11 minutes at the Victorian state championships.
One of our neighbors achieved that honor and will run in Melbourne in a few weeks. I’ve offered to help him train, now in the knowledge that I will be soundly beaten over the distance.
Dude ran in the recent zone championships at Wangaratta, against boys from there, Benalla, Wodonga and Shepparton, and came 54th out of more than 110 runners. He’s only eight years old and most of them were nine or 10.
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