The most important day of the year according to Sebastien

well as always these photos will be all over the place/not in order but who cares. Today is the Big Day. Nothing is more important than Cross Country and I cannot not be there... Of course this is according to Sebastien - one year Meg was "running" and I walked beside her for the last 100m telling her to go faster because even the kid in the wheelchair was ahead of her... So Lucy ran at 10am and did really well. Seb was stuck in class "doing *work*" while the juniors got to run so I took lots of pictures for him. She didn't get in the front of the start-up line so I was glad Sebas wasn't there to wittness it, but she did really well. She ran the whole 1km and finished about 1/3 into the pack. Sebastien's year group was due to run at 11.30am but they were ahead of schedule so when all the Yr5 boys were warming up (with the student teacher who used to be an All Black....) I had to get someone to go fetch them from their class - can you imagine his fury if they had MISSED THE RACE? Let me just say when those boys got outside and saw the others heading over to the start line they ran like mad! Hats still on, and drink bottles in their hands!! I had to collect his whole classes hats and bottles because they were so freaked out they were going to run with them! Anyway there was some serious elbowing at the start and Seb got pushed to the back but he ran hard the whole way (I think the senior boys do 2km) and got up to the top 1/3. He will not be impressed with that at all, but as I keep telling him, they are all in a major growth period right now and their muscles don't always keep up with their bones... so trying is what counts. It is his first year not being in the top 5, but he did certainly do his best.


Cooling down exercises

Lucy doing cool down stretches

Seb on the starting line (behind the teacher's elbow)

Lucy, Willow, some other girl, Sammie-Lee, Jessylyn and Eri outside their classroom, getting ready to go warm up

Stretches after the race