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[quote=Anonymous]Look, I have my young kids in plenty of sports and maybe i am doing it wrong but fwiw I am a former collegiate runner and I would not enroll them in a track program unless they really requested it themselves. (And I have enrolled one who requested it in a running club at school).

I didn’t join track until HS but got my running in other sports until then - soccer, field hockey, lacrosse - which was probably better so I didn’t get burnt out.  I would also just do pick up races with boys at school for fun, etc.

As a kid, my dad ran (still does) a lot himself, and at one 5K we went to cheer him on at when I was in 8th grade, I just randomly decided on my own, spur of the moment, that I would just run it (not in running clothes or shoes) - won my age group and eventually decided to check it out as a sport in HS. Recently my dad was running a 5K at the beach and my 9 y/o wanted to run it with him. But, my 9 y/o hadn’t trained or anything and I ended up walking most of it with him to keep him company (and said whatever pace he wanted was fine). All these other parents around me were begging their kids to run a bit. I was thinking - did the kids ask to run this race? If not, I wasn’t sure that experience was going to make them LIKE running. (Maybe the parents both really want to do it and they felt they couldn’t leave the kids alone while they did it, idk).

I suppose it’s interesting that they didn’t give times at CYA. Not sure why not. Though I did do a race in another country once and they didn’t really do times  because the important thing is that you finished. I liked that.

Anyway I think it’s ok to not like something because it’s disorganized or whatever. But if you need external validation in the form of not having everyone get participation trophies, maybe think about why that is. [/quote]

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