One day a little boy named Thomas was at school getting ready for a race that had 36 people in it.

"How fast can you run?" Thomas asked a boy next to him. He was shocked when he heard he didn't know how to run.

Just when he was going to ask another person a question, the race started said "Go!".

Thomas ran as fast as he could and he forgot it was ten laps around the school so he only did one.

He wasn't lucky when his teacher saw him and thought he was cheating to get first place. So she took him out of the race and into the classroom.

"Why did you cheat?" she said.

Thomas didn't know what she was talking about so he said, "I wasn't cheating! I was just running a lap."

"You're supposed to run ten," the teacher said.

Thomas was so embarased his cheeks were dark red and then he ran back outside.

When he ran outside, he saw the first place winner and challenged him to a 100-meter race at Sheldon Park on Saturday, the 16th.

When Thomas just woke on Saturday up he remembered the 100 meter race. So he ran to his closet and took out his running clothes. Then he walked to Sheldon park and found John waiting at the starting place.

"Come on!" John shouted.

So Thomas ran over to John and said, "Who is starting the race?".

They had forgotten to get a person to start the race. John looked around and found a kid named Paul.

"I'll give you ten bucks if you start the race."

"OK!" said Paul, running over to them looking very happy because he needed ten bucks to buy a cool toy he had seen on TV.

When Paul started the race, they both ran like bullets. At the end of the race John was shouting at his feet, "You can move faster than that!", because Thomas had run the race and John had bet everyone in his neighborhood ten bucks that he would win.

When Thomas went home he read a book about bicycles and then went outside to ride his bike. Thomas didn't really like running and decided to race with his bike.

The End