Our athletics season started on Sunday, with the Ron Keat Virtual Ribbon Day.
Usually Papakura Athletics Club holds the Ron Keat Ribbon Day at their grounds, but this year the Covid lockdown meant it couldn't happen. Solution: each club held their own Day at their own grounds, socially distanced of course, and Papakura passed over the ribbons to hand out.
I'm on the Committee this year at Takapuna Athletics Club, and together we organised two hour-long sessions for 28 club athletes. Athletes competed socially distanced in bubbles, doing 60m, 100m, 200m, long jump and shot put.
Mulan and Miya competed, too:
A majority of the committee voted for all five events in the one hour allocated, which made the competition feel very rushed (the family all thought it better to do fewer events). Consequently, the focus was on just completing the events rather than good results in each event. As Mulan pointed out, it was more like a group training rep session than a true competition. By the end Mulan was feeling a bit sick from not enough recovery.
But no big problem, and being able to get out and have a run/jump/throw was the most important thing.
We're planning for Club Nights to start again tomorrow, also socially distanced and in bubbles.
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