Tryathlon!!!

On the 17th of February, Mapua School had its annual triathlon. All students were expected to participate, and although some of them did not particularly enjoy triathlons, they all did their best. The triathlon included running around the field, biking around the field and swimming in the pool before sprinting to the finish. The whole school took part in the tryathlon, even the little 5 Year olds, who have only just started school, tried their best. Parents and grandparents showed up to watch their children compete, and I'm sure that they were all proud of the effort put in by all of the students. 

The children sat in their year groups and the teachers started with the younger kids, calling them to the starting line to do their race, then worked their way up to the older ones. The 5 year old's needed a buddy to help them with their race, so all of the Year 8's found a buddy to run with.

After all of the class races, the teachers made up a team of three (Mrs Stephens running, Mr Clearwater biking and Mrs Shepard swimming) to compete against the two student's teams, one boy's team ( Theo running, Daniel biking and Kurtis swimming) and one girl's team (Lara running, Cailin biking and Kinsey swimming). There was also Mr Searle and Mr Mackenzie, who both did the whole thing. In the end, The boy's team won! Go students!

All in all, everybody had a great day, even those who didn't enjoy their race certainly appreciated spending the time outside in the sun, instead of working in the classroom! This year's triathlon was probably the best one yet, I wonder if next year's will be better...