Bean’s school hosted a triathlon and colour run today. The former for the sports lovers, the latter for the Astro charity fundraiser.
Bean had no interest in the triathlon as he hates competitive swimming. This was hugely relieving as taking part would have forced me to split across Salisbury. However, the colour run caused great excitement - more so than playing football.
We rocked up after Bug’s rugby, set up the sweet stand and spent half an hour negotiating with children over sweets and chocolate before our colour was called and we headed to the start line.
Bean and I ran the course holding hands - minus the corners which we decided were best for skipping. As we ran (or more accurately jogged) around he made my heart swell with constant reference to how happy he was to be doing the colour run and how much he loved that we were doing it together.
Bug was on colour throwing duty having knackered himself at rugby. He took this quite seriously when we passed, leaving his post to stand in front of us and chuck a cup of orange powder right at us. The Head of Sport attacked with equal vigour as did my friend Edd when we got to the end of the course.
I was a sceptic going in and thought I could really have done without it, but we all had the best fun, in the September sunshine with our friends. I’m so pleased we stayed the course and took part!
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