Club Elementary Running Club: Fill & Download for Free

If they are late for the bus or train, yes. If they enjoy it yes, why not?My sons school do running club each day before school, and I think it is excellent. Most of the kids (this is a US elementary school starting at age 5) do it and seem to enjoy it. My 5 year old only does about 1 mile each day, my 7 year old does 1.5–2 each day. It has really upped their fitness levels, and now when we go group on hikes they are often upfront with the 10+ year old kids, rather than being dragged behind. As they count the distance there is a competitive element to the running club, and my sons now request to be signed up to do 5K races (which can be claimed towards running club miles). They love running passed all the older adults and kids and beating them in the 5K races, it makes them feel really good.If your 13 year old enjoys it they should jog, if not find another sport they do enjoy. At that age it is important they are doing some exercise as it will set the time for the rest of their life. At that age I wasn’t jogging, but I was playing (association) football or cricket at every possible opportunity. Just running seemed a little boring. But I kept fit which was enough, and now as an adult I do jog, as it is a good way to get away from life for 20 minutes.

In all of the history of Track and Field running (records kept since the 1860s) there have been 855 men (no women) to have run faster than 4 minutes for 1 mile. Think about that for a second. Of all the millions of runners, only 855 men. I know elite runners who were state champions in high school, among the best in the USA, All Americans in college, and they did not break 4:00 in the mile. These were young men who trained with running clubs starting in elementary school, who made running and competing their lives, and while they got close, they could not break the magic barrier.This is not to discourage you, but simply to point out that you need to set a more realistic goal, especially since you say that you are 16, have never run track, and your stamina is terrible.Do this for us. Go to a track and time yourself running one lap (400 meters) as fast as you can. Then multiply that time by 4. Report back to us what your time was. That will give you an idea, and maybe a greater appreciation, about what it means to run a 4 minute mile.

Because anime is made in Japan, and Grounding as an educational measure isn’t that big of a thing in real Japan, either. Yes it happens, but it’s nowhere near to being the “cliche standard approach” that it is in the US or other Western countries.To understand why, you need to be aware that (with the notable exception of elementary school kids) a Japanese adolescent’s day can look pretty darn close to being grounded, anyway. At least to the eyes of a Western observer.See, when an US parent grounds a kid, it usually takes the shape of “You can go to school and attend soccer training, but that’s it. You have to come home straight after, no detours, then do your homework, and then go to bed.”Well, guess what…That’s the kind of default day many Japanese adolescents have, anyway.Very roughly speaking, school itself runs from 8am to 4pm, potentially also starting earlier because of morning club practice. After 4pm, at least half of the students move on to club activities that will last till 6pm, sometimes longer.Japanese students get to see this scene more often than you’d think.Now add a walking/commuting time that can routinely be anything from 20minutes to an hour or more, and the fact that the overall homework workload is steadily increasing. Sometimes enough to keep people busy right till bedtime. Not to mention those big advancement exams at the end.Mandatory after-school club life (of the nicer kind, I guess).All in all?With a schedule like that, there’s not that much time to do other stuff in the first place.“Playing around” (when it happens) most commonly takes the shape of stopping by a fast food / family restaurant with your friends, on your way home after club activities, or perhaps going shopping for an hour or so.First going home to then meet up again later? Or simply “randomly hanging around for hours in the city till late evening?” Possible, but not that common, at least on a weekday.Week-ends you say? Well, yea.Grounding would sort of work there. And as said, it happens.But then there’s also the plain old fact that “being grounded makes for bad, boring television.”