Greene Beans: Summer Track Nights

The track club we belong to puts on a Summer Track Series. It happens every Thursday night during the months of June and July on the track at Maclay School. It is for any aged kids and adults too. They do most of the events that you would see at a high school track meet. It is just for fun, but you do get points for winning. At the end of the whole series, awards are given out. Kids get ribbons for finishing events too.

We have meant to go to all of them, but we have just been so busy. We only made it to one in June. It was really a fun thing, but it was super hot out. My Dad was in town the night we went, so he also came by to hang out also! The kids were very excited when he got them banana flavored snowcones! They were such a mess between sweat and snowcones, but they did have a great time!

James ran the 200 meter that night and did pretty good! It was the first time he ever ran a sprinting event. I would have loved to try, but I chose to just watch. I knew that type of running would not be good for my knee!

They have a 40 yard dash for kids under 5, which Logan tried. He was very excited about it and it started out great. Halfway through it, he got upset and wouldn't finish. I think he just got overwhelmed by people watching and cheering. We didn't have Jack try because we figured he wouldn't want anything to do with it, but we realized later that he loved running on the track. He would just take off in one direction and even stay between the lines. We are going to let Jack try it next time and maybe Logan might have more fun if his brother is running too.

We really hope we can make it to more track nights in July!

The start of Logan's Race - Photo taken by Fred Deckert (track club photographer)