Track and Field OFSAA



Men's Olympic High Jump



These past two days, I have been at the University of York for the Central Region Track and Field finals.  The top 4 athletes from every event qualified to go to Sudbury next Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  Before being able to attend this meet, you had to qualify at LOSSA Track and Field Championships by getting a 4^th place finish or better.  I was able to qualify for both of my events, the 400 meters and the high jump for my age group.  It is such a great feeling to know you are one of the best athletes in your region for a certain event.  On Thursday, I ran the 400 meters at the University but I wasn’t able to qualify for Sudbury.  Today, Friday, I did the high jump.  I knew that this was the event that I would most likely succeed in.  A good hour before I started warming up, I already had many nerves.  Then, when I heard the announcer say “First call for midget girls, high jump”, I knew that it was my time to succeed!  I walked over to where all the jumpers were and I let the adult responsible know that I was there, before I began to warm up.  It was cloudy and it was raining a little bit…  Not the best conditions you could ask for!  Although the cold weather wasn’t too great, most athletes weren’t ready to let that stop them.  We started jumping at a low height of 1, 25 meters.  Until 1, 40 meters, I succeeded every jump.  At that height, I made the bar fall on my first attempt.  Since we have three tries per height, I made it on the second try.  At 1, 45 meters, I made it on the first try.  Sadly, I wasn’t able to make 1, 50 after my three tries.  I ended up finishing in 4^th place, just good enough to go to Sudbury next week.  My goal is to be able to jump 1, 50 meters by the time I go to Sudbury.  I hope to be in top shape!

30 interesting facts.

I've been looking for some interesting facts for this blog and I found these.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

1.      If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

2.      Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

3.      The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

4.      Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

5.      The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

6.      Polar bears are left handed.

7.      A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

8.      Butterflies taste with their feet.

9.      Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

10.  You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

11.  Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

12.  Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

13.  Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

14.  Pearls melt in vinegar.

15.  A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.

16.  In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

17.  On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

18.  Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

19.  Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

20.  Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

21.  No word in the English language rhymes with 'MONTH.'

22.  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

23.  Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

24.  The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

25.  When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.

26.  The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples.

27.  Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.

28.  The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!

29.  We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams.

30.  Blueberry juice boosts energy.