Happiness and Health

Besides, young people are likely to be benefited as adults when there are changes in psychology. My self-confidence will be largely increased if I know that I only run slower than a few people in my early years. When a teenager participates in a race, he makes a sprint for a hundred yard in the remaining time and catch up a strong adult in his twenty-five, it will make him have a rare sense of equality. Roger Bannister wrote that the period of adolescence always brings psychological conflict and trepidation, over the years, if a boy's body and mind are tested through hard activities, he may bound to bear the experience more easily. It was said that the idea was held by Roger Bannister in the past well ten years. It is undoubted that girls will also be put into the article if Roger Bannister writes it these days.

It is also suitable for running before the time span of puberty. In order to watch the Junior National Cross Country Championships, I came to the north of Franklinite Park in New York City on an autumn day. There were three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine participants of boys and girls, some of which were only six years old. They conducted a mile and a half race by following a track around the wide lawn. According to the age, they were separated into several teams and each team had two years differences. They rush wildly as a group of bee and pick up on a batch. When they start to run, first of all, is six and seven years old girls, then is eight and nine years old girls, lined down, up to the sixteenth and seventeenth-year-old boy. People were astounded by the game result.

There is a girl who belongs to the most immature group, run over the full distance with less than seven and a half minutes per mile. In the same age group, a boy costs ten minutes and eighteen seconds to go all the way. For his speed, even many adults can not catch up with him. Comparing to their running speed, their emotions worth more noting. When children were in the final few yards of the sprint, their face expressions were the same as you saw in the international competitions, liked the runner's face, showing a pair of struggling expression. But after they crossed the finishing line, they would immediately resume the smile and happy mood as if they had the outdoor activities for the whole day.

Notwithstanding the above evidence, some parents still worry that their children are too young to run, hard running will make themselves hurt. They may also worry about the recent Duke University event, which is held for the six to ten months babies called twenty-yard dash toward the mother. Because I have my own children, I ask doctors and physiologists to seek their views on such things.