Acool thing has happened this year. My son ran with me this weekend and he beat me around our second loop. The loop is 2.45 miles The first loop my 14 year old son and I are talking about day to day stuff, school, homework, girlfriend stuff. As we go in to the second loop the talk is less frequent I am having a tougher time talking and running than he is and he begins to pull away. This is my loop. No one passes me on my loop. Not without a fight anyway. I push a bit and gain back some ground. He hears me breathing like a grizzly bear and picks up the pace. He is close maybe 10yds away but it keeps getting bigger. The gap keeps growing . I am trying but thoughts of am I in bad shape did I have to many drinks last night…what the heck! Another thought starts to enter my mind and a smile begins to grow larger across my face. I think back to the first time I put my son in the running stroller. 3 months old maybe less. I would run my loop and he would enjoy the ride and usually fall asleep. Day after day month after month. The stroller gets bigger he is growing. We are at a birthday party and there was a baby stroller there and my son takes the handles and takes off running around the yard. He knows thats what happen with the stroller. The transition to a bike for my son as I run. I push a great deal especially up the hill back to our house. He soon masters the bike and stays beside me. Soon he is uncatchable…but he knows to stop and wait at certain points along our loop. He is now ready to try to run one loop. Not easy many stops but he pushes through. Running some fun runs 5ks…he keeps getting better and better. Asks me can we go to the gym? I said of course. He wanted to know what I do there. He starts with push ups pull ups and other fun stuff. He is running track and cross country, riding mountain bikes. Getting better and better but I still got him. The smile on my face grows as the sun and the wind hit me with all the reminders of what I have set him up to do. Just this he is ready to take the baton and run further and stronger. It is humbling and the most gratifying feeling in the world. All of those thoughts flashing in my head in just seconds along that second loop. It seems like a lot but I remember when he was born. In the first few moments that I held him and gazed at him I saw his entire future before me in just seconds. Just thought I would share the moment. I hope others have had or have this same pleasure to share!
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Passing the baton
Wow!! I just got goose bumps! That was so touching! Thanks so much for sharing… i cant wait to have that moment one day in my life when i have kid…
You should be so proud of yourself! Time flies by but you are making every moment count and created a life long relationship filled with memories… I really love this post! It has so much meaning as a parent. He is following in your foot steps and there is no better feeling to witness your child growing up and striving to be just like you… YOU KNOW YOU DID SOMETHING RIGHT!!
One day he will be pushing his own stroller and appreciating everything you have done for him… this is so amazing! You put a smile on my face!
You should be so proud of yourself! Time flies by but you are making every moment count and created a life long relationship filled with memories… I really love this post! It has so much meaning as a parent. He is following in your foot steps and there is no better feeling to witness your child growing up and striving to be just like you… YOU KNOW YOU DID SOMETHING RIGHT!!
One day he will be pushing his own stroller and appreciating everything you have done for him… this is so amazing! You put a smile on my face!
I hope so and thank you. It is one of the coolest things to share those experiences.
Quick share and kind of silly. We are on a monster roller coaster. I have been on it before it is his first time. At the time it is one of the highest and fastest drops in the world. We are ascending the first hill and it moves kind of quick and he is chirping to me telling me this doesn’t seem like that big a deal. I had the best opportunity at that time to just turn my head as we came to the top and as we started down that first hill was the best reaction I could have ever asked to see. Those eyes and that face were truely just priceless! Needless to say it was a cool ride for both of us.
Quick share and kind of silly. We are on a monster roller coaster. I have been on it before it is his first time. At the time it is one of the highest and fastest drops in the world. We are ascending the first hill and it moves kind of quick and he is chirping to me telling me this doesn’t seem like that big a deal. I had the best opportunity at that time to just turn my head as we came to the top and as we started down that first hill was the best reaction I could have ever asked to see. Those eyes and that face were truely just priceless! Needless to say it was a cool ride for both of us.
Sometimes it is easy to lose sight of what is truely important and I think that is when most people including myself get down sometimes but if we truely take time to count our daily blessings we would find ourselves to be pretty well off.
i am the same way.. i cant wait for the work week to be finished so i can relax and chill.. however when i do nothing and just relax watching tv i feel like i am wasting my day.. I feel like i always have to do something productive or do at least something
Hhaha, i think that we are so programed to work that we ne3ed to always be working to feel productive, when we take days off (which we deffinitly need from time to time) wour bodies think that something is wrong because we are doing something out of the norm. I have put much thought into this if you could not tell haha.
its tough the kids are involved a in a great deal so even sat and sun we are up before the crack of dawn…someday we will get some time back but we do what we have to…it is a short time we have to be so involved with our children so we try to make the most of each day….yeah a bit sleep deprived but we make the best of it.
This is just something I think we all need dose of. Good talk at about 4:25 you can just listen and do something else but it is beautiful to watch as well
http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude.html
wow i watched the whole video.. at first i had no intention to watch the whole think lol.
however as i started watching it i coudl not take my eyes off the screen.. to me this is a form of meditation.. i thought it was so beautiful and made me appriciate life.. once in a while you need to just slow down and be thankful for everything you have in your life.
I really dont think it would be a bad idea to watch a short video every morning.. i think it will start your day on the right track and not take things for granted!! thanks fo sharing..
however as i started watching it i coudl not take my eyes off the screen.. to me this is a form of meditation.. i thought it was so beautiful and made me appriciate life.. once in a while you need to just slow down and be thankful for everything you have in your life.
I really dont think it would be a bad idea to watch a short video every morning.. i think it will start your day on the right track and not take things for granted!! thanks fo sharing..
Good point musclegym, you cant take anything for granted, weither its lifting or its life, you must appreciate everyday you have because it could be your last. Having this mentality will help training alot people you will make sure that you get everything out of it and hold nothing back, and this is what makes great champions.