Pharmacology in the Wild

"Look, look, Zenaia is gonna do a death drop". I was standing in the playground at my first Youth Run NOLA practice as coach, and unexpectedly I was watching an elementary schooler attempt a dangerous looking dance move. To her credit, Zenaia pulled off the ominously named death drop flawlessly, but it certainly wasn't what I expected to witness when I first signed up. Allow me to back up a second. This wasn't a dance practice; it was definitely a running practice, but the funny thing about kids is that when you get a group of them in a playground after a day of school, they sometimes don't rush to follow instructions and instead do whatever they want to do instead. That being said, they had earned a little bit of liberty after completing four laps of the block, a whole mile covered in a pretty decent time for their age group. Another reason the death drop wasn't such a bad thing is that the kids were still having fun. It's a mental adjustment I've h