3 generations of 3-legged races…

How to win a 3-legged race…

I met Barry one summer a very long time ago while we were both teaching summer school.

He would later tell me that: 1) he loved my little 1970’s cotton dresses; and 2) he discovered my, um… competitive spirit while playing a game of softball with our summer school kids at the end of the summer field day.  Yes, Barry liked this.

Flash forward  a few years.  We were married, had kids and had joined a summer swim & tennis club, Kendbrin, where our kids could swim, dive, play tennis (and tennis racquet baseball), shoot hoops, settle under a shady tree to read a book, create arts & crafts, climb, romp, play and make lifelong friends.

And each summer, Kendbrin held a Family Day… a day filled with food, fun, festivities and field events.

Ah.  Field Events.  Maybe the 80’s had ditched my little cotton dresses, but the competitive spirit?

Nah…

Take the 3-legged race, for example.

Barry & me, circa 1984

We are locked and loaded.  Or more like tethered and untamed, down to the very science of securing the tie.  Scoping the competition.  Grrrr…

Winning a 3-legged race comes down to: 1) the perfect tie (not too loose, not too tight, not too high, not too low); 2) the perfect arm wrap-around (waist wrap, comfortably secure);  3) the perfect start (I’m not giving away our secret); and 4) the perfectly timed and tethered stride.

Barry and I would go on to become the reigning champs of that Family Day Field Event 2-legged race for quite some time.  Legendary?  Maybe!

So, I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this summer, at the same summer club, our son and daughter-in-law Keith & Nicole came in second place in the 3-legged race only to a couple of college kids.

Yeah.

And two of our grandsons, Andrew (9) and William (7) tethered up to put on a very good 3-legged race…

William (l) and Andrew (r)

(I’ve got to help them with that tie-job.  Oh, does that sound competitive?)

It’s funny how some things change.

And some don’t!

(And, oh.  Barry and I came in 4th place this year… the very, very oldest two 3-legged race competitors.  Yep. I’ll take 4th!)

 

 

 

 

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Audrey McClelland has been a digital influencer since 2005. She’s a mom of 5 and shares tips on her three favorite things: parenting, fashion and beauty. She’s also a Contemporary Romance Author.

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