Athletics Day!

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, recently our school held a very big event. It was Athletics Day! If you didn't know, Athletics is a range of events covering track and field. We had the choice to compete competitively or socially. If we compete socially our times don't get recorded, however, in the competitive you get your times recorded.  In every event, each person gains points towards our house.

For social, as I said, our times don't get recorded but each time we participate in a game we either get 5-4 points. For example, my house is Mōhua and I have participated in 3 events, that means that I have contributed points towards my house. We also have to participate in 5 events.

My first event was discus. I liked discus because it was easier than shot put. From my memory, I threw it pretty far around 10 metres. The last time I threw it only reached 9 metres so I was delighted to see that I have improved a bit.

My second event was sprints. Sprints is my favourite event because I like to think that I'm quite fast and it feels good to run around. For this one, we had to go in groups of 4. Since this wasn't a competitive event some people skipped to the end.

My last event was shot put. I think shot put is a great sport but for small people like me, it is quite hard to throw a ball that weighs around 3kg. I still think I did pretty well in this event, my throw went out pretty far.

For the last two events which are long jump and high jump, we missed out on it because we weren't called in. But I'm sure it would've been really fun to do both of them.

After finishing our events we had the relays. The relays are based on years groups, there were three houses and overall I think Riroriro (Blue) won most of the relays. It was really exciting to see people run, they were really fast and I felt really refreshed. I wished I could've run in the relays, but I don't think my speed would be up to par with the other competitors.