Running with "The J"... part 2

For weeks "The J" has been begging me to take him on a long run. Whenever I ask him how far he want to go on our run he always says "ummm, I think I want to go six miles." I always chuckle and say lets just get one mile down really good first. Well last Saturday I ran the Kingwood 5K and  "The J" really wanted to run it with me. To the point of tears when my wife told him he couldn't .  So for a surprise this past Saturday I decided I would take him down to the local bike trail and take him for a long training run.  It was supposed to be a 5K, but the section of trail that we would be running on was only 1.1 miles one way.  That really didn't matter to him he was just really excited to be running long.  That and to be running on the bike trail, this was something new.  After his nap we got on our running gear, grabbed a few water bottles, pack of chomps and we were off.  The whole time he was asking me all sorts of questions, like how many turns it took to get there, would we be stretching when we got there, how far it was, were there any bridges. I told him all of the answers he wanted to know plus, told him we would be running past a horse farm and beside a lake.  Once we got to the parking area I gave him a Chomp and we went through our stretching routine.  Then over the bridge to the trail and off we went down the trail. Seeing how it is partly wooded it makes for good animal sightings.  The first one that "The J" saw was a little bird perched on a broken branch. Then a small rabbit hippity hopped in to cover as we pasted. Throughout the whole run "The J" thought it necessary to call out the number of people and what type of activity they were doing, such as "Dad there are two bikers".  Besides the people, animals, and when are we going to see the lake I was also notified of each bench as we ran past. It is always an entertaining endeavor to go for a run with him. At about the 1 mile mark we slowed down to walk as we approached the turn around, as per our plan. Once turned around and starting back "The J" spotted a sign placed beside the trail and asked if he could run ahead to the sign by himself. I let him, but when he got about 3/4 the way there I saw some one heading toward the sign. I ran after him to catch up and he was slowing to a walk.  Once I caught up to him I ask why he was stopping, he stated that someone took the sign away so he stopped.  Luckily there were some posts at the side of the trail for him to run fast to, so he took off.  Once I caught up again we ran for a few more tenths the traded down to a walk as he had drank too much water during our turn around and had a side stitch. During this brief walk we spotted a turtle, and that was the best thing.  We were off running again and this time we didn't stop for the remainder of the run.  "The J" also started to get a bit fatigued and needed a distraction. At the start of the run he spotted a mile marker post with a 16 on it so I thought that it would be fun to have him count to 16 (about four times).  It worked and we blew past the marker and just as we got to the bridge "The J" caught me off guard busted in to a full sprint for the last little bit and across the bridge to the finish tired, but happy and excited to be done.  We hopped into the truck and grabbed some water and had a snack size package of pretzels before heading off back home. Our run totaled 2.1 miles and took us just over 28:00 minutes, of this we ran around 1.6 miles of it.  He never ceases to amaze me with his boundless energy and determination. Not once has he ever said that is enough, always he pushes through and finishes.