Some time ago, Jack was contacted by his former preschool teacher, Mrs. Eakin, about attending their bike day this year. Jack was able to present a short bike safety speech and demonstration last year and the kids and teacher loved him so much, she invited him back again this year. It was cute when Jack got the phone call - Mrs. Eakin spoke with him personally about bike day and I heard Jack tell her he was 'available' that day. When he got off the phone, he was all puffed-up (as manly men do) and he casually told me about the conversation, like he did these things every day.
Mrs. Eakin's son, Kim, has a childhood background in BMX, which evolved into downhill mountain bike racing, sponsors and eventually a spot on the Cannondale racing team (if you are not familiar, Cannondale bikes are extremely engineered, top of the line bicycles). He now works for Cannondale and HAS TO ride bikes for a living. He's really got his dream job. Anyhoo, he took time out of his schedule to do bike day as well. This is Jack's second time doing bike day with Kim and Jack gets stars in his eyes when it comes to this guy. Kim did not disappoint and brought with him an expensive cannondale which made Jack's heart go pitter-pat. Kim also brought his 7 year old son with him and Jack was sort of a mentor to him (because of their vast 2 year age difference).
Jack put on his racing gear, grabbed his pit bike and unicycle and his prized plastic ramp. He gave his presentation to the class and then the whole class headed outside for bike day. Bike day consists of riding whatever wheeled item you bring from home (scooter, bike, trike, etc...), riding it in a tight circle around orange cones for the duration of class and occasionally stopping at the cleaning station or the decorating station.
Jack spent his time with Kim's son and gave him pointers for jumping the ramp. Kim graciously let Jack ride his muy expensive Cannondale bike. It was an adult bike, but Jack didn't care - the bigger the better.
Kim spoke with Jack randomly through the day and spoke with him like Jack had been riding just as long as he had. Jack kept up - acting like he had all the knowledge Kim did.
It was a fantastic day for Jack.
3 comments:
wow. WOW! Big ups to Jack. And Kim.
Jack has a unicycle? Right ON!
Yep, Jack is on the unicycle performance team at school. I know he's got amazing balance, and I also know it's not from me...
He looks like such a big boy. I LOVE the helmet. Gotta tease about that.
How awesome for him. I wish I could have seen it. The big DEMO and all. He's so gonna go pro.
xo m
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