i run most weekends and my daughter has started asking to come and run 'the big race'. she's 3. some events have a kids' category but from what i've seen it's 5 or 6 and up. anyone found something for under 4s, or is it laps of the park with me for now
Going only by the events we've attended, our younger daughter did a short kids' run at a gated community's sports day when she was about four; it was one lap of the clubhouse and everyone got a medal. I have not seen a citywide run with a category that young, but I would look at society or school events near you before the big organised ones.
Our son is about that age and we tried a 'family run' at a school fair. He ran the first twenty metres, then sat down to examine a stone. The medal was the only part he remembered. If you do go, the start line in morning sun is harsher than it looks, so a cap helps.
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I'd look hard at how the start works. At our elder daughter's first event the little ones were briefly released together with the 10K crowd, and it was chaos for a minute. Our 6 year old has done much better at runs where the kids' race had its own start time.
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mine walked his entire first kids' run holding a balloon and a volunteer's hand. he was four. still one of my favourite photos of him
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