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.
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…
(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!)