Athletics Carnival and other things

07 Sep 2004

Athletics carnival version 2 was today, and whilst less blatantly stupid than the last attempt our school put forward at such a thing, it still wasn’t great. At least the stupid half wasn’t left stuck at school, whilst the intelligent half were called in a vague attempt to make them return to that boring pointless hole when they could have been at home working far more productively on assessments, etc.

But I’m not going to start ranting about that one again, yet. Maybe later.

I ran in the 100m and came second in my heat, but it wasn’t a particulary fast race. I know this because my shoes were falling off and I still managed to come second. Alex Reid won the heat, but I doubt he was flat out, either… he got the lead at the start and then we both settled into cruise for the remaining 70m, as much as one does in short-distance races like that.

It started raining soon after, and as much as I had wanted to run, my desire to stay dry overpowered any urges to run 200m or 400m races… so I sat with people (Ben, Dale, Kylie, Max, Nick and Soolie + Crusty before they took off) quivering in the cold until the end of the day. At least it finished early ;-)

My house (that’d be Salisbury) tied in 3rd place, with the Evil Empire of York coming first, and Westminster scraping in at 8th place. Dale, it’s all your fault. Anti-participatory individual!