Toddlers to Twenty Somethings

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">On one of my running routes, actually two of them – I pass by preschool play grounds. I see the children outside by the swing sets sometimes, but on one of the routes, I run (on the sidewalk) right by the fence where the children are playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I always smile and wave if they are looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have to show them the grown up having fun exercising </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Garamond; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Garamond; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Last week, I ran by that particular pre school, and the kids were out again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It had been a couple of weeks since I had seen them – the weather I suppose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The children – boys and girls – are most certainly age 3 and 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>This last time, I saw one or two digging, a couple running and a whole group of them walking down hill backwards, falling, rolling, laughing. It was divine.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Today, I did some studying outside on campus, because it was warm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I am quite lucky to have 1) an office (cubby) space at all and 2) to have this space on the floor that ‘houses’ the athletic team training and rehab rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I am always walking by runners, softball and base ball players, students who play volleyball, basketball, and soccer, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>While I was outside today, the women’s softball team was practicing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I saw some good catches, throws and dives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>A group of male runners congregated near the building entrance, and a trainer worked with a few women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>One of them was on a stationary bike – outside (how cool).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>But the best thing I saw – a young woman who was small framed (so I would guess her a runner), had a cinch around her waist – like a horse might be tethered to an aerator or plow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The strap around her waist went down her right and left side, again, think of a horse being hitched to a hand plow. She was attached to a round piece of steel, iron or something – which really could have been some kind of grounds keeping tool – but on closer inspection, it seemed to have a free weight<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>- or weight plates on it. The heavy round disc (oh let’s see, hold your arms in front of you with your fingertips touching, palms facing you – it was at least twice that round and a few inches in diameter) was flat on the ground. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turned around and was pulling that thing across the field and back. The disc did not leave the ground – she drug it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Mostly I expect she was working her legs – quads probably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But anyway – YAY for spring and physical activity and our youth – 3 or 4 or 24 </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Garamond; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Garamond; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As NC Says – Eat Smart and Move More</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

Toddlers to Twenty Somethings

On one of my running routes, actually two of them – I pass by preschool play grounds. I see the children outside by the swing sets sometim...

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