Saturday, 1 December 2012

Athletics Day

When I was 9 years old, our school had an Athletics Day. We all competed in lots of events like High Jump, Long Jump, Vortex, Shot Put, Discus and Sprints. The first thing we did was vortex. There were two vortex and they looked like an orange, green and black rocket, then we started. The vortex area was a lane of green grass with stakes in the ground, marking every metre. I was the first to throw and we had to make a target with our hands, then we had to point our hand towards where we wanted it to hit. Some people thought it was easy and some thought it was hard, but it was easy for me. Mine went very far and very fast. At the end, I did not get in to the top three.
After vortex, we went to the long jump. The long jump was in the sand pit and we had to line up in a long line. In the sandpit, was a long measuring tape that when we jumped, told us what place we came. When we had done our jump, the sandpit got raked again. My first jump was 2.27 metres. Luckily, I  came 3rd place.
After all that tiring  work, we had our sprints. I could not wait for it. We had to run 80 metres. My first race was against Hunter-Rose and I came 2nd, then my next two races were against Jaimee and Hunter-Rose and, in both of them, I came 3rd, Hunter-Rose came 2nd and Jaimee came 1st. In my last race against Jaimee, I came 2nd.
It was a fun day, but I was very tired when I got home.

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