Dick Quax athletics comp

On Saturday, once again Mulan, Miya and I competed together at athletics.  This time it was the Dick Quax Memorial Meet.

The results are here.

Miya ran her first ever hurdles race -- first time over hurdles on rubber and first time completing a full 80m!  For her first race it went pretty well.  The big thing for her to work on is getting familiar with the stride lengths between the hurdles.  About halfway through the race she had to chop a stride very short to get over a hurdle, and consequently on the next hurdle she was off balance and fell.  But she quickly picked herself up and still managed to finish well.

Delightfully, immediately after that Miya got a new PB in the high jump, clearing 1.37m and getting very close to 1.40m.  She's also adjusting well to throwing a heavier shot put this season (3kg up from 2kg), and got it out to a solid 6.56m.

Mulan is de-rusting well, getting very pleasing results in her first long jump (4.39m) and hurdles (15.27sec) competitions of the season.  What was especially good about the hurdles was that it was into a strong head wind (2.4m/s) yet she kept the momentum going and mostly didn't need to add an extra stride between hurdles.

Finally, I did an okay-ish long jump of 4.88m.  The main thing is that I'm still doing something to keep fit, though it's a bit sad to feel the body getting slower and flatter each season.  One of the big pleasures of athletics is the feel of speed, and aging takes that away incrementally every year.