This week there was the Track and Field Area event where schools from around our area send one or sometimes two students for each event to compete against the other schools and then they go to Regionals if they win in Area. This year I got to go to Area and skip a day of school which is probably the main reason why a lot of people from my school want to go to Area. A student is only supposed to attend one or two events, so I got to go for the 400m race and Standing Long Jump.
When we got to school instead of going in the normal way the people going to Area met in the gym through the front door and waited for the buses to arrive to take them to the high school where the Area event was. Each school gets a canopy tent for students to put their bags under and our tent was in around the same spot it was in last year so it was pretty easy to find once we got there. The 100m races started as soon as we got to the high school so I got to watch some of my friends do their events. The 400m race was my first event which was after the 100m races were over and I did better than last year since I did the same events as this year and didn’t do as well. While waiting for my second event, I got to watch a few of my friends’ events and also got to do some other random things. For Standing Long Jump I think I did pretty bad since I did worse than I did at school and the people at Area were really good.
For the most part, I would definitely go to Area again next year if I get the chance to so I can skip a day of school and also have fun with my friends and do all the different events.