“You ready Sky?” Delta Kyle calls out to me. I nod my head without looking away from my target. “Ready? GO!”

A torrent of sound comes from the kids. Several charge my way as I run towards them. Just before they reach me I break left towards the side walls of the arena and jump to the ledge continuing to run without a missed step. I go as far as I can and make a large broad jump landing on the tips of my toes on the top of the curved climbing bars leading up to the main platform of the obstacle course. I continue running and make the same leap to the ropes that Sam did.

The only thing I did differently is jump from the side collecting 2 of the three ropes in my legs while reaching for the third. I climb up taking the extra ropes with me so they can’t follow. I get to the top and grab the flag, stuffing it carefully in my sports bra.

I look around to assess where the kids are. For the most part they are starting to swarm the ground where the ropes would land if I let them go. I choose to pull them up over the support beam and walk across the support structure like a gymnast. Making it to the cargo net before any of them can make it around, climbing only as low as I need to jump to the arena wall on the other side, almost missing my footing.

a fight to make them build their long term observation skills, anticipation, tracking and learning from past mistakes. I jump from the wall, the kids hot on my tail and run like my life depends on it over the finish line. I didn’t get tagged, which sucks for the kids, but I want to know if I maintained

him. He just stares at me blank faced. I am ready to cry from anticipation. He looks down at the stop watch and back up at me a couple times before taking a deep breath

the breath I didn’t realize I was holding and matched his smile and then it’s like someone turned the volume on full blast.

a hug. “Why are they so excited, they lost?” “That was my fastest time yet and they put the flag as high as it could go. Today was hard, they put up a good fight.” I say patting a little boy on the back, while one of the girls is trying to hug my leg. There is just a commotion of words. I catch bits and pieces, but you would have thought the kids had won the challenge the way

A deep booming voice comes up from

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