Thursday, August 3rd- The Milford Roadrunners sponsor a kid's track meet every Thusday night. They have the kids run in several races by age in heats: 60 yards, 220 yards and 440 yards. Tate ran in the 60 yard dash and came in 2nd place. He concentrated very hard and ran like he meant it. He was proud of the outcome. Garett, however, who can "run" on the emotional side quite often when he doesn't win- ran and completed each race...barefoot. Okay, okay. So it wasn't part of the plan originally. I sat his socks and tennis shoes out and said to get in the car when he was done. He got in the car alright- but with his sandals on. The sponsors said that lots of kids run without shoes on, so he did. (Although, I will say- I did not see "lots of kids" running without shoes on- only one really cute one named Garett.) I was super proud of his determination to finish each of his races.
