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By Julianne Cuba<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Daily<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Talk about running in the family!<\/p>\n
Teams of youngsters and their parents competed for supremacy during the Get Up & Go! Family Adventure Race at the Salt Marsh Nature Center in Marine Park on July 24, hosted by the City Parks Foundation and New York Road Runners. And for one winner — a 10-year-old participant whose least favorite activity is exercising — crossing the finish line first was great inspiration to get going on his feet more often, his teammate said.<\/p>\n
“It was very nice for someone who usually doesn’t do any exercise. It’s a bit of encouragement. He was very hesitant of doing it but we were sort of like, ‘Come on let’s do it!’ ” said Bensonhurster Maggie Pang. <\/p>\n
Pang and son Tyler tore through the course’s 12 activities in less than 21 minutes, including frisbee, climbing over a 5-foot wall, and miniature golf. And the once-sedentary 10-year-old had so much fun competing, he’s now a budding future runner, said Pang.<\/p>\n
“He had a lot of fun and to push him to keep going and going — and he was asking, ‘When is the next race?’ I guess it’s nice for him to have fun and everything and he realized we came in first,” she said.<\/p>\n
And the second-half of Pang’s family — her husband Calvin and 8-year-old daughter Katelyn — also ran the race and had a blast, even though they weren’t as speedy, she said.<\/p>\n
“My husband and my daughter were on one team, they didn’t come in first,” said Pang. “It’s fine, they had fun — the most important thing. They actually went and had a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n
Reach reporter Julianne Cuba at (718) 260–4577 or by e-mail at jcuba@cnglocal.com. Follow her on Twitter @julcuba.<\/p>\n
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