Results
Opening day at Newtown Park was a quiet and laid back
affair. I mean the hordes were not banging on the gate to be let in.
The
programme of events was manageable and I suspect designed to work with the officials available and enable the attending
competitors to have a go at everything. And some did, or nearly did.
For
2019/20 Athletics Wellington has adopted a different approach for Saturday
track meetings. In effect, roughly every second Saturday has been set over for
self-managed training sessions and time trials.
The alternate Saturdays offer a
normal track and field programme which I suspect will switch between the old
and A and B programme events. The Regional League meetings continue as normal
as do the Junior days held on selected Sundays.
So for opening day the track events were:
3000m walk
Hurdles
(110m/100m/80m)
800m
100m
3000m
400m
200m
The field events were
Long Jump
Shot Put
High Jump
Discus
Conditions
were actually quite good with little wind to speak of. It became a bit chilly
as the weather changed to the south and it actually rained for a bit, which included a heavy downfall of short duration. But the show must go on and of course it did.
Overall
participation was not great with only a couple of entries for some events. Not
really ideal but I know Marshall Clark has been working hard to try and generate
more interest in what goes on at the track on Saturday afternoons. There were
good fields in the 800m and the 3000m so no complaints there.
We will have
to wait and see whether the new AW approach achieves its goals but when the
next competition Saturday comes around in a couple of weeks I shall be taking
names of those who do not turn up.
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