Thanks for teaching me mummy, I love running now

I received this beautiful email recently from one of our long term members, Cass Warner. So inspiring!

Dear Debbie, I can’t help but share this with you.

This morning my son, Brad was getting ready for school and I said “Sports day buddy, put on your sport uniform”.

He complained, “Awww no, running. I hate running, we have to run up that really, really big hill and it’s so hard!”. It surprised me at first because Brad loves running when he’s playing, but he doesn’t have a competitive bone in his body and he certainly doesn’t rush anywhere. So I thought about it a bit and remembered how much I hated running at school too, always coming last and hating the hills. Then I thought about all the things Debbie has taught us. So I gave him a really quick little lesson in running up hills, “Don’t look at the top and worry how far there is to go, just take each step as it comes and COUNT. Count to 10 then look up, count to 10 then look up. Don’t worry how far to go, you’ll get to the top quicker if you’re not looking at it, count to 10 and look up.”

WELL!!

When I picked him up from school, we were chatting and I asked how his day was. He said “Awesome, I got a mini merit!!” I said “Fantastic, what for?” “Running!! I did exactly what you said mummy and it worked really, really well!! I didn’t come last, I ran really fast and I actually beat lots of people and they gave me a mini merit. Thanks for teaching me mummy, I love running now.”

Tell you what. My heat melted. Thanks for your tips Deb, they extend further than you could imagine…