Awesome 3000

Aaron, when asked, said he really wanted to run in the Awesome 3000, so we signed him up. The race now accepts kids ranging in age from 3-18, so just about anyone who wants to race can do so. I never ran in the race myself, but that's the life of a baseball player, I guess.

He's been informally practicing the last few weeks in anticipation of his big race: every trip up the stairs is a race, every visit to the mailbox is a race; and every, et cetera. I did take him to the local dirt track to practice running in a formal environment, but we only ran two short laps--nothing special.

Aaron was in the last heat of the last race of the morning. He was running against fellow 3-year olds. As soon as it was his heat's turn to take walk to the starting line, he sprinted to the front and the volunteers had to hold him back; we'd had to wait for about 30 minutes, so he was anxious to run. I was most proud of Aaron because he finished the race without stopping all while keeping a steady pace; he also happened to cross the finish line first. He had so much fun racing.