Athletics Day

For athletics I couldn't do much because of my sore foot so I got assigned to doing the photography. We started off the day by having a debrief in the gym. We then lined up in our last name alphabetical order, I was happy with this because it meant I would be near the front. We got on the buses (not the bendy ones) and made our way to the Trust Stadium were our athletics day was being held.

When we got there we unloaded from the bus and made our way to the stands. We put our bags down and waited for our next instructions. We then got split into year groups and got sent to our first activity. My year started off at shot put. I have never really liked shot put but I gave it a go anyway and came quite high in my year level.

The year 8s then moved onto high jump so I went and helped Mea do some photography. I got some cool shots of some people doing high jump and running races. We then went and had a snack in the stands before the next event. I continued doing photography as the year 8s did some long jump.

It was then time for discus and I was really nervous and excited at the same time. I have already done lots of discus as I used to Athletics and I was quite good at it but it has been a long time since that and I didn't know how well I was going to do. I had my first go and got about 9 meters something. Lots of people bet my score, Leroy got 17 meters! I knew I needed to get further so in my second go I got 10 or 11 meters which I was quite happy with. The next one I got was about 15 meters and I came second over all and first out of the girls which I was really happy with and so was mum.

I then took some more photos but it began to rain so I had to sit the stands so that the camera didn't get wet. Mea and I were sitting in our seats when we heard someone screaming, I looked down the row in front of me and along a bit to the left Ethan was screaming as his foot was stuck in the chair, Mea was yelling for Karma and I rushed over as Lisa and Nicole came over. He had jammed his foot and it wasn't coming out. He cried in pain and finally he was able to get it out. His foot was indented and started bruising strait away.

 Mum came running as fast as she could as she heard Mea and could see people crowding around. His foot was still hurting and mum told me to run and get an ice pack and it was in a green bag. I ran/ hopped to the gazebo and searched for the green bag with the snap ice packs in them. I couldn't find it and I was frantically searching. We then spotted it on one of the chairs in the stands so we went and got the ice pack. After Ethan got the ice pack he calmed down a lot and his foot was bruising lots.

There was then the longer running races and they were a success. We had a couple of people slipping over but there wasn't anything major. I can't wait until next athletics day and I hope I can actually do everything next time.