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104 pounds. He'll start his freshman year of High School in 6 years (Class of 2031). He's now 4 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 104 pounds with swimmer's shoulders.
My daughter running a timed 40 yard dash
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Keefe
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My God. How tall are you? How tall is your wife?
Al-O-Meter
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I was 6'5" at my tallest and my wife is 5'11". My wife's brother is 6'6" so both sides have plenty of height, but the kid's projected height of 6'9"-6'10" is tall even for our family. I do reinforce how great it is being tall and show him athletic feats being pulled off by tall athletes for his self esteem which isn't lacking by any stretch of the imagination. I would never tell him this but I do hope they've overestimated his height a bit. If he ends up being Tyson Fury, Gregor 'The Mountain' Clegane, The Undertaker, or Karl Malone then I don't have the slightest doubt he'll own it but I can't help but thinking 6'6" would be a bit easier through life.
Last December we bought a 30’ bumper pull travel trailer. We love to camp, but we used it at all 4 travel tournaments we did this year (two in southern Utah and two in Idaho). This next year we’ve doubled the number of kids playing travel sports, so we may just be living in it.
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My soon to be 14 year old boy (going into 8th grade) is 5’9” and 165 or so. He already wears a size 13 shoe (which is the same size I wear), so I have hopes he’ll end up being in the 6’4” range.
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Keefe
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Your whole clan can sleep in that?
Keefe
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Fml at travel sports…this travel soccer is local for now. Our county and the neighboring one. I want my daughter to be great (she’s not) but I sort of hope she just gets into running because there isn’t any of that nonsense. Though soccer is quite social and so is she so…
BTW she ran 1:25.4 for 0.20 miles the other day which is 7:11/Mile pace. Pretty solid.
BTW she ran 1:25.4 for 0.20 miles the other day which is 7:11/Mile pace. Pretty solid.
Al-O-Meter
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Nice! That kid has a motor. When she gets old enough to learn how to run to a pace I think you're going to have a monster on your hands.
Keefe
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Yep. She did that in soccer cleats on grass after a three hour practice too with no one running with her on a hot day. The travel soccer should help a lot (though I think she’s going to play fullback or whatever they call it now) and my wife thinks she’s about to have. Growth spurt which should help too. I might bring her out on a track to run a 400 and see if she can crank out a 1:30 in the fall on a nice 65 degree day. If she wants lol.
Yeah. It’s a “bunkhouse”, so it’s got two sets of bunk beds at the one end. Plus the table and couch convert to beds. We don’t want to have to mess with the table every night though. One set of bunks is wider than the other, so whoever gets the wider set has to share. As of now though, #4 and #6 like to sleep on the couch that folds down into a bed.
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We’ve kept our travel sports fairly low key. Soccer will travel up to an hour away to play games, other than tournaments. We’ve gone as far as Vegas (6 hour drive) for that. Baseball is about the same, but we get doubleheader’s on Saturdays) for that. This past season the furthest we drove for either of them for a regular season game was less than an hour.
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Keefe
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It’s nuts. And a scam. All of this. This country’s gone mad.
The Thriller
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These are outstanding times for her age. You may have a track/x-country runner on your hands.
Keefe
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It’s honestly impossible to tell with girls. She could develop big breasts (her mom has them) which would ruin any chance of that.
Keefe
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I think these times are off a bit. I never posted it but like a week or two after this workout, I brought them to the track again. Each kid was considerably slower. I think like a dimwit, I started the kids at the correct spot (visually at where the 40 yard line on the football field was) but stopped them at the finish line instead of the goal line. Oh well. My daughter finished soccer a month ago and has basically wanted me to train her in the backyard so we’ve been doing running workouts like 3-4 days a week on top of her two days of soccer practice. Nothing long. Not counting joke warmups and cool downs, like 5-10 minute workouts. But it’s something and better than her watching tv all afternoon. I’ll increase intensity slowly til April. Basically I’m doing everything I can to develop a drug addiction or mental health problems in her. I jest. She really has come to me.
Al-O-Meter
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I’m envious. My kid will not take coaching from me beyond tips on technique. If you’ve got the weather, it is a good time of year to get fast. When you get new times in the spring, do post them.
Other than it being with coaches and different sports, my son is in the same boat. He’s currently putting in about 9 hours per week in training plus the occasional weekend tournament.
Keefe
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She never did take my coaching but I backed off a bit, play good cop more, and had a talk with her and am trying to be a bit more thoughtful and Phil Jackson with her. Iirc, I think I said how working truly hard at something is invaluable. Gives you an appreciation for certain things in life, builds character, etc. And that at this moment, everything seems to come very easy to her. School. Socialization. Art. TV lol. The next day I came home from work and my wife said she had gone into the backyard on her own. So…we’ll see how long it lasts.
This is awesome! Good on ya brother.
Keefe
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What’s up, stranger?