Monday, August 16, 2010

I Am The King Of The Mountain - Term 2 Runner Like No Other

For two months a few select people of Tamaki Intermediate had been training for a 5km run. It was cool. Training started at 7:30am every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning. After training we would go back to school, have a shower and then have breakfast ... IN THE STAFFROOM ...

Sunday 27th June 2010 those special people attended a special running race in Panmure called “King of the Mountain”. We had to be at the starting line by 7:30 am. When I got there Miss Popata (our coach) told us to do some stretches before the race.
Miss Samson, our head cheer leader arrived late. Some students missed out on the run because they didn’t show up, but the rest of us still went on.
A French man warmed all the runners up with an exercise routine known as “ZUMBA”. We started with some basic moves like waving our arms up and down to the music. After these moves we did some Latin dance moves like the MUMBA.
When zumba was finished I was all hyped up and ready for the run up Mount Wellington. John Banks, the mayor of Auckland city was ready to blow his horn so we could go. He yelled “On your marks. Get set. Go!!”.
Everyone ran like crazy. The worst for me was running up the hill. My legs started to get tired and they felt like they were dead. Taiapa got in front of me on the hill.
When we got down the other side I was ahead of him and he yelled out for me to run with him.
I said “Nah”, so he sprinted off and overtook me.
Thanks to Miss Popata and Miss Samson for giving up their time to organise, train and feed us while we were training. Also thanks for giving up part of your weekend to cheer us on.
It was a cool experience. Especially at the end when we went into the family bar at the Landmark and got spot prizes. Heaps of the Tamaki Intermediate kids got prizes. We’re that good.

1 comment:

Caroline - Ngaruawahia said...

Hi Anthony. Good on you for giving King of the Mountain a go. Two months is a long time to train.