Running Together

Last night it was interval workouts at the track. It's a great workout and hopefully I'll see the benefits of it before too long.

Before we started our intervals Jenny and I ran four laps to warm up. After the first lap was completed our 2 year old ran up to us and declared that she wanted to run with us. We slowed way down to allow her to keep up with us and taking hold of our hands the three of us ran about 200 meters before we left her with her sisters. In terms of exercise and physical results it was worthless in term of relationships and love it was priceless.

What price do you put on relationships? You can calculate this by looking at the activities or results you pursue at the expense of relationships with others. Now tell me, is it a fair trade?

A couple of weeks from now I won't remember much about last nights workout but I will never forget holding hands with our youngest child and running (very slowly) round the track with her.

Comments

[Ann]

Precious story. Where does your family run? I've often wanted to let our son loose on a track (where I don't have to worry about cars, etc.) He's only 3, but he loves to run and is surprisingly fast. We assume its the Ethiopian blood, because he certainly doesn't get it from my side of the family.