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Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten.. Each morning in Africa a lion awakes - it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.


No matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up you had better be running!



Monday, March 28, 2011

Not squashing childhood enthusiasm

Out on my morning run today, I came across something quite bizarre. A mother was pushing her child in a buggy to the local school and he clearly did not want to be in that buggy. Aside from the fact that it is my personal opinion that he was too old to be in a pram, he was kicking up a fuss and whinging about wanting to run. In the end she just let him out of the pram and I watched as he jogged and ran the remaining 400-500m to the crèche.

Now how it is that she was not letting him run in the first place is beyond me. It clearly is the healthier way for the child and if he wants to run, then I say let him run as long as it is in a safe environment. If it was the case that the mum could not keep up with him, then perhaps it is a reality check that she get a bit fitter herself and if she was afraid that he may fall over and skin his knees, then I thought that that was what childhood was all about. Sometimes you fall over and graze yourself and sometimes you may even break a bone or two, but largely sticking the child in cottonwool is going to nothing for his/her self confidence and if they have a particular affinity towards something (as this little boy had to running), then you may even be killing off that avenue of creativity.

Running together – stride for stride on a life changing ride. – Sean Muller

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