Achieving our personal best

Have you ever thrown a shot put 14 meters?  Come first in sprints? Have you ever come first at anything? Have you achieved your personal best in athletics?

Achieving your personal best is the best time or score achieved by an individual in a particular event, for example, I came 3rd in the relays breaking my own personal best.  In athletics there was so many sports to participate in last Friday. We did discus, javelin, soft ball, volleyball, shot put, tug of war, high jump, sprint and relays. My favourite event was the 100 meter sprints because I achieve my personal best

We show our personal best in all of the sports by giving our best effort. We also encourage each other to try our best. We kept on trying even though we may want to give up at times. We use all of our strength to pull to throw and to run. We wanted to have a drink and a break but we kept on trying even though we were out under the sun for hours and hours.

At the athletics there were so many bright house colors filling the field and the courts and flags waving around and many sports going on. Sadly I came late and missed out on the first event which I think I could have come first in. Not only in the school grounds but also out on the Pt England reserve. I didn't have time to change into my house colors (Hikianalia) so I just jumped in (Te Aurere) the red team. It was fun running around changing from sport to sport. In every sport there was a first, a second, a third and a fourth place. Having a break once or twice wasn't enough for us to take a breath. But we did manage to get through and make it to the finals and the people that came first will compete against other schools.

I liked how we got through the day without giving up and letting other people down and letting them have a go at every sport. It was a good thing to do. I also liked how we cheered for other people. I liked it how we got through the day happy and safe.