ATHLETIC SPORTS ~ 2015 Havelock School hosted the recent Pelorus Athletics Standards Competition on Friday 13 November. No need to worry this year about a postponement date – the day dawned clear and the promised warm bright sunny weather duly turned up. Following a welcome, briefing and warm-up the first event got promptly underway at 10:00. With the short sprints completed the four rotations of jumps and throws progressed with a thirty minute break for lunch. The longer sprints finished the formal events which were then followed by the relays. After lunch some more voluteers showed up in the form of a group of Aus/NZ soliders stationed in Havelock for the military exercise Southern Katipo. Their help was appreciated and a number demonstrated that even with kit they could still run, jump and throw – reassuring considering their job description. The real feature of day was inclusion of a military and two adult teams in the relays. It was so much fun we had to run it twice. Watching a solider in full kit sashaying, skipping or balancing a quoit on their head certainly put a new perspective on soldiering. Needless to say the soliders’ interaction with the children and public certainly made for a rather unique sporting fixture. We are still not sure who won the final event, a 200 m dash with full military kit pitching trans-Tasman cousins against each other. In the spirit of partnership it was probably a dead heat – by that stage it
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