Maybe the US of A isn't as soft as many claim. A teacher was training some teachers to run a marathon and the kids wanted to get in on the act so he trained them for a half.I'm most pumped that the parents didn't complain or cite abuse.
http://www.runnersworld.com/races/more-than-200-middle-school-students-finish-arizona-half-marathonRW wrote:
One day after school last September, Terry Labrecque and his daughter Amy, both teachers at Desert Horizons Elementary in Phoenix, Arizona, gave a group of students a goal: Run one lap around the school.
"I tell them, 'If you can't make it around the school, make it as far as you can and next time you'll make it 10 feet farther,'" says Terry, 65, a retired Navy captain who has been a runner his whole life.