I hope that you have had a nice long weekend!  I only have a few items for this week’s track communication.

1. Peninsula one day meet (to make up for the snowy day) is on  this coming Saturday, May 24.  The schedule is in the Track Room or on www.pentrack.org   The signup is in the track room now. Your registration fee covers the entry into this meet.

2. The one day Pentathlon (for ages 9 and over) and Weight Pentathlon (ages 14 and over) is on Sunday, May 25 in Sidney. The signup for both is in the Track Room. Your registration fees cover these events.  Both contribute to VIAA points and the 4 meets necessary to be able to get a large rosette ribbon at the end of the season.

A Pentathlon is when an athlete does five events:  High Jump, Long Jump, Shot put, Sprint Hurdles, and 800m.  Rarely is an athlete good in all of these events.  More often they are fair at all events, or pretty good at 3 of them. Athletes score points on their performance in each of the five events, which are added together for their final score.  It is a fun event, and there are many athletes in our club who would do well at the pentathlon.  There is a Provincial Pentathlon in Whiterock for ages 9-14 on June 21, so this is a great lead up to that event.

Those throwers ages 14 and over who are interested in the Weight Pentathlon should talk to Denise about it.

3. The signup and schedule for the Duncan meet (June 7-8) is in the Track Room already. It is a sticker meet for most athletes. We would like many of our club athletes to attend this meet, so we will be organizing some hotel sharing and car-pooling to enable this….more info next week.

4.  Those athletes ages 14-15 who want to try out for the BCSummer Games zone team can get more information from  Dave Sherlock.  The registration deadline for Summer Games athletes is May 31, so please talk to Dave soon.

5. Is anybody interested in organizing a Track Club entry into the July 1 Canada Day parade?  We have not done it before, but they have called me about it several times.

6. If you take any digital pictures at any meets, please send them to me or Dave as we always need them for the paper and awards.

7. Parent help is still needed moving the high jump mats at every practice (unless it’s raining).  Thanks for the extra help at practice on Thursday when Dave, Jill and Anna were away.