Keir's first 10k

This morning Keir took part in the Huddersfield 10k road race.  He decided last summer that he would do this as part of His Duke of Edinbugh (silver) Award.

For the last six months he has been very dedicated and ran three times a week in addition to his usual PE and games at school.  He also went swimming regularly on Sunday mornings.

His result for the hilly 10k race surprised me and Fay.  I even think he surprised himself.  At 15 years of age he was the youngest runner in the race and he finished 264th out of 429 with a time of 54:51.

Very pleased with him for obviously putting in lots of effort in training and not shirking in the recent bad weather ... in fact I'M RATHER PROUD OF HIM.

Keir

For the past nine months or so Keir has been progressing towards his Duke of Edinbugh bronze award. Among other things he has been studying Latin in evening classes and training for a 5k race.

The training has taken about three months during which time he's run three or four times a week and he seems to have enjoyed it. He's certainly been committed ... going out in all weathers, including running through snow drifts on Otley Chevin when it would have been more sensible to turn back and take an alternative route.

Well the 5k race was today in Leeds at Hyde Park and he finished in 77th position with 25:24. He enjoyed himself and no doubt gained a lot of self confidence from the fact that there were 63 finishers behind him.

I'm proud of him ...

For his silver award he may train for a 10k race at the start of next year.