This week my school held it’s annual track & field. Since I’m in elementary school we have nine events being standing long jump/broad jump, running long jump, triple jump, shot put/ball throw, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, & 1500m. I signed up to participate in all of these events except the 1500m since I don’t really like long distance too much.
The meet was supposed to be on Tuesday, but the weather wasn’t good so it was pushed back to Thursday. Our day was split into separate sections for different events. Usually, we would have all of our events and then possibly a rest period if we had spare time. However, this year our gym teachers decided to have our standing long jump & 2oom in our gym periods prior to the meet in order to save time. Unfortunately, not all of the intermediate students, which includes me were able to do the 200m before. Because of that, everyone had to do it again at the very end of the day.
At the start of our day, we had over half an hour of rest time before we actually started any of events. Personally, I think this was a pretty unfortunate thing to happen since I wouldn’t get to rest when I’d actually tired but wasn’t much I could do about that. Since our school just finished with track & field yesterday I only now some of the results. I’d gotten first in all of the jumping events even though for running long jump I’d faulted my first jump but they still counted it. If they hadn’t counted my first jump I’m pretty sure I would’ve gotten second since we only got two jumps and my other jump wasn’t as good. I had also gotten third in the 1oom and from what other classmates have told me, I’d placed within top six for shot put. For the track events, it’s kind of hard to guess how well I did until the official results are released, but I don’t think I did too well in any of those.
Overall, I had lots of fun and I’ll get to go to the area track & field meet that takes place at a high school nearby where some other elementary schools gather to compete. I’m looking forward to the area meet mostly because I don’t have to go to school for a day, but I’ll still try my best to do well.