Shameless brag

Wonderful!!!  Congrats to Duncan!! 

and thanks for bragging!

Wow! That is awesome.

The track program sounds like a great thing for the kids. I'm glad your son found something that will keep him involved athletically. You have every right to be proud!

Stumfossil and KSH,

Thanks for your remarks.  I have been worried about what it will be like for him later on but you have helped me out and I know that he will make it just fine.  

Last year when the kids were in swim lessons I was surprised to see that Duncan passed up his older brother and I was trying not to make that big of a deal out of it.  Now a year later I can see how he has some self esteem issues (his brother is a real advanced reader) and I really just have to let him go at his own pace and do what he really enjoys doing.   Every child is different and if this is his "calling" then so be it and we'll be there for him. 

I glad we have a couple of years to deal with the driving but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.

Again thanks for the input.  I so happy that we have found something he loves and is good at.  It gives him a great outlet and out look on life right now and new goals we can "tri" and look forward to. 

 Pretty sure that this is a problem with most new drivers.  My little sister does the same thing....Thanks the gods she can't drive on real roads yet!  I thyink it's just a matter of learning when you need to stop/turn.

reading this thread has reminded me of a conversation i had with a good friend of mine recently. she is an orienteerer and i am pretending to be a triathlete (i'm a swimmer really). i've previously enjoyed playing football (soccer) to an amazingly low standard and got force fed field hockey and netball at school along with track and rounders.

all the sports i have done prior to my training for my first ever tri (july 2nd - ahhhh!) apart from swimming have required a certain level of co-ordination AND often speed. my school when it did track made us do 100m and long jump.

both elli and i were extoling the virtues of endurance sports and were almost religiously zealous about how much more welcoming they are than faster sports and ball sports.

reading this today makes me wish that the pe teachers out there would realise the all-encompassing nature of endurance sport and start to incorporate them into the school curriculum to ensure the duncans, the kshs and the ellis and mes have a more enjoyable and participatory pe career.

Meredith that's great, brag all you want!  Is he a BT member yet? 

My son is 6 and we just signed him up for his first tri in 2 weeks.  Swim is 100 yards and he's got the whole swim team now opening up practice with a 100 yard medley!  I'm going to help my son with BT logging until he gets the hang off it.

Don