Every year, my school has a track and field meet on one day around this time of the year. Everyone after grade three participates and the winners of each event are chosen to go to our board’s area track and field meet. However, in my opinion, this was probably the worst track and field meet we’ve had so far.
Originally, the teachers were planning on making the meet take place over the course of two days. A lot of people didn’t like this because it would be a lot more work, and there wasn’t really a point in having it over the course of two days since we’ve always done track and field on one day even if some events spilled over to the next day.
The Monday of the week we were supposed to have the meet was when they had canceled the two-day plan from Tuesday and Wednesday, due to the weather. They then postponed the meet back to a one day meet on Friday. Additionally, the teachers wanted us to do some events before the actual meet to save time on Friday. However, our grade was unable to do standing long jump in the gym, so we had to go outside and do it into the sand pit even though it was still wet outside. We also had to run the 800m on the wet track that had puddles in it which led to a lot of people not participating.
On the Friday meet, it was still kind of wet. Compared to last year, it was a lot windier and colder. When we ran the 100m almost everyone slipped on their starts, and when we were all waiting for our next event it was cold. Since the grass was still wet, they ended up moving the 200m race over to the soccer field next to the park across the street. Once, my grade crossed the street to the soccer field we found out that we weren’t running that day since there wasn’t enough time. Some people were kind of mad since we had gone through the trouble of doing a few events before the meet so that we would be able to get through everything on that day. Even after they canceled our 200m, everyone crossed back across the street, and we waited outside for half an hour doing nothing until we went inside to get our things only to leave right after.
Overall, I’d say the meet was pretty poorly planned and it was partially due to the weather being bad for the past few weeks, and the school didn’t want to push the date back any further. Most of us still had some fun though since we didn’t have to do any school work, and we had the long weekend to look forward to.