ACTION|| Kasarani Nationals

On the 22nd of November we went to perform at the Kasarani Stadium Nationals. I really did my best and was able to get 1st place in Tripple Jump, 3rd place in 200m, 1st place in 4x400m and 2nd place in 4x100m. I had a lot of fun and was able to develop my technic a lot. The stress that I had before every race pushed me to perform such times.  I also broke two school records and one meet record. I think this meet was a great way to end the season. After this meet I feel ready for the next season and I now know what I need to improve in all my events in order to get even greater results in the Seychelles international meet.

ACTION|| Peponi Warm-up Meet

We again had a friendly invitational meet on the Kasarani warm-up track, organized by the Peponi school. For this meet only two athlete per event were allowed to be registered from the same school. There was also only two age categories, U15 and U19. I ran the 200m, 4x400m and 4x100m. It really was a great experience. Compared to the ISK meet  three weeks before, I ran those races a lot better and that showed in my times. For the 200m I ran a 28.75s, which is my personal best so far and which is also only 0.72s away from the school record. For the relays, the 4x100m was interesting as two of the runners had never ran a proper 4x100m and did not know about the hand-offs. We were able to run a 58.52s which is not so bad compared to my time  the last season 54.67s . The 4x400m was not really a challenged as all four athletes were 400m runners and had been doing track for at least 2 years. After this meet I feel more confident and think I will be able to perform well for the Nationals at Kasarani (again) on the 22^nd of November.

SERVICE|| Operation Smile

I have not been blogging about Operation Smile, as for the past few weeks we had only been talking about the ‘future’ of the clubs and voting for the next heads of the club. Last Wednesday we had a bake sale, as the wrist bands we ordered last year finally arrived. I was not really sure about how successful this sale would be, as we did not really advertise for it. The vast majority of the club participated by either baking (amazing goods), or by selling the food. We had the stand for activity and lunch, and sold more than 100 wrist bands, and all of the bake goods. Since me and Callie ( another member of the group) had free block after lunch we decided to go and sell whatever was left at the MS. This was a real success, all the kids rushed for the cool aid and bought some 50 more bands.

I think that the Operation Smile club, is now making its way through the number of clubs in ISK, and we will have a great year seeing how dedicated everybody is, and the ideas everyone is coming up with.