The kids started track a few weeks ago. It's AWESOME.
My 6yo daughter LOVES to run and has already moved up from the 4-6 year old age group to the 7-8 year old group where she came in second in her first race.
My boys aren't super fast but they're so proud of how much they're improving that it's REALLY helping their self esteem and teaching them that persistence pays off. It's also going to help them come August when football starts.
The 4 year old seems to be enjoying it. She'll whine and whine about how bored she is then turn on the juice and run circles around the other kids. I think her attention span hasn't caught up to her speed but when it does? Look out.
I thought it would be fun to time the kids at the 100, 200 and 400 early in the season and then again at the end of the season to give them a picture of how much faster they'd gotten so I asked my husband to pick up a stop watch.
"No need." he told me. "I have one."
He grabbed it out of the garage and showed me how to start and stop the timer. What he didn't do was teach me how to turn the hourly alert and alarm off. So for the past 8 days the stop watch has been beeping (LOUDLY) every hour on the :46 minute mark (I also don't know how to set the time correctly.)
I was out of town last week and when I got home I heard it beep for the first time. "Don't worry." he said, "it beeps every night around this time and then it doesn't beep again."
Which wasn't true. It beeped every hour (on the :46 minute) and went off at 6am. I snoozed it (apparently) because it went off again at 6:10. I got up and snoozed it again. At 6:20, when it went off AGAIN, I nearly shoved it down my husbands throat but instead I said, "YOUR TURN."
He put it in a drawer. It didn't help. It's been three days and all I can hear is BEEPING.
I finally figured out how to make the alarm stop but it's still beeping every hour on the hour.
Update: I will wear black for an appropriate mournng period and then I will marry Google for helping me figure out how to turn off the DAMN beeping.
It's so great to hear that the kids are into track like they are. When I was their age, I'd be all into playing with the stopwatch (beeping or no beeping) but not the running.
Now, I'll run, but don't care about timing much at all.
Posted by: John | June 28, 2011 at 08:13 AM
I have a stove from around 1966 and I can't figure out how to change the clock, which makes for some interesting math when I have to time something. Or, you know, tell the time.
Posted by: Lori Dyan | June 28, 2011 at 08:43 AM
Ha! Awesome. Mine shoved my old time watch in the linen closet for a month. It finally died. What is it w/ men?
Posted by: Kim | June 29, 2011 at 06:30 AM
Uh ... throw it in the toilet! Duh!!
Posted by: TropicallyAnon | June 29, 2011 at 07:36 PM