The oldest of The Sweeties, Mack, not only plays soccer, football and swims for the club team, he runs the mile. He is seven.
His mother reports:
Mack did so great at his race yesterday. … He came in second in his age group with a time of 8:09. The kid who came in first in his age division is the kid that went by Mack when he stopped at the wrong ending line (the kid finished in 8:06). Which kills me, but doesn’t seem to matter to Mack. The kid is a second grader, so Mack finished first in first graders and younger.
. . .
He came in 19th in the race, of 163 people 18 and under.
It would have been nice if he won, because the girl he luuuuurves won the girls 7 and under. That could have been the spark that brought them together. Now she will feel superior to him (although he did beat her by more than a minute.) Actually, I think she already feels superior to him. After all, he is a boy and she is a girl.
