Athletics Day

It was the boys' first athletics day with the school today - which also coincided with one of the hottest days we've had in spring!! We thank the Lord from whom all blessings flow. Several schools participated in the event which was held at Timaru's premier events centre in Aorangi Park. The day was super, with activities happening in small groups on two fields, rotating through each of the events. Aaron participated in long-jump, high jump, relays, hurdles, shot put, bean-bag toss, skipping and one other thing which I can't remember; I didn't see all of Caleb's events as I was on Aaron's field with the younger group but he also had hurdles, high jump, long jump, relays, and a few other things. As we had suspected neither of our boys excelled, but neither was completely hopeless either. They were both quite good at the high jump. It was a blessing that Caleb was well enough to participate without his asthma overreacting. Aaron's section finished their events shortly after 11.30, after which their school day was done. We went home for lunch, then I went back to watch the last of the events of the older section - the relays. It was pretty exciting and although TCS didn't rank highly overall, we have some outstanding athletes who did us proud. Nick came along for the morning to spectate and photograph; the two photos of Caleb are by him.