Beat by a 2nd Grader

I have recess duty twice a week, once on Tuesday mornings, and once on Wednesday afternoons. I made the mistake one recess of choosing to race one of my kindergartners across the playground to the fence, just to see who was faster. Well, now it becomes something I am expected to do every time I go out to recess. Only now it's not just one child. That ended about 2.2 seconds after I started my very first race. Most of our races include crowds of children, and we have to try and set definite rules about getting in a very straight line first... or else some of the smaller children are trampled. As a whole, the races do great things for my self-esteem. Just think... I race against half of the children on the playground, and I always win!! I sometimes even have time to wait at the fence before the children arrive. That all ended today. I was beat by a 2nd grader. Not once, mind you, but twice. And I wasn't letting him win either. I was running my guts out, (by the way, that's not a very good idea when the finish line is a very unforgiving chain link fence... ouch) and yet, I couldn't manage to pull ahead. I might have to give up racing as a way to boost my self-image, and just leave it as a way to make friends... little friends.