Taranaki Athletics Champs

On the weekend of the 23rd of February we had Taranaki children’s athletic champs. On the first day I had 1500 metres. I warmed up for twenty minutes and then went to the marshalling tent. I was the only one for my age group in the race. I thought that there would have been more people competing. I still wanted to get a good time so I followed the thirteen year old in front of me. On the last lap my time was 4 minutes point 2. I went really fast on the last lap and my tome at the finish was 5 minutes point 2. I was really happy with that time. They took ages to present the medals and when the finally did I was the only one on the podium. I had my 400 metres later on. There were 7 people in the race. I had the 6th lane and was all ready to go. I was out in front as soon as the gun went off. I had a great start and got past the first hundred metres really fast. When I got to the last bend I really had to power it because most of my opponents had the inside lanes. By the time I was on the last straight I had won it. I was really happy with my performance. On the second and last day I had long jump it was in the morning. It was really wet and cold that day. We got to do our practice run up and jump. We were already soaked before we even started! My first jump was around 3 metres 50 which I had to really improve on before the next jump. The next jump was a no jump which I was pretty disappointed with. I jumped 3 metres 97 on my last jump and that was a bit better. I was sitting third and the last guy had to beat me to get third and he jumped 4 metres 10 and I got fourth. My next event was the 800 metres. There were 5 boys in it. I was in front from the gun again. After the first lap I was a bout 50 metres in front and I ran an extra fast second lap only to just about kill myself at the end. My time was good and I got gold. I had 200 metres next up. I drew lane 3 so I had to run an extra fast bend which I did and then I ran a really fast straight to end up finishing third behind Connor and a boy from Kaponga. I had discus next but the discus was slippery and it mostly went out. I finished up with three golds and one bronze medal. I also got selected for the Taranaki interprovincial team.