Day 5

Concerns have been expressed about the lack of athletics being covered by this blog so we’ve had a team meeting and decided to make it more athletics based (“boring, boring, boring athletics”….El Presidente).

Up this morning were Mike B & Garlando in the 1500M heats both comfortably qualifying for tomorrows final.

There are concerns that Tom has lost a lot of stamina, he only seems to be able to run quickly for 150M before slowing down to the same speed as all the other runners – safely through. Eben has been superb, only narrowly failing to make the final with a 5^th in his semi (4 to qualify) only .4 of a second or so off 4^th.

Teresa ran a solid, successful semi but Emma has been laid low and had to withdraw soon after the start (to still be available for tomorrows relays she had to take the line…Championship Rules)…. team player of the day faw shaw.

Ingy’s highlight of the evening program came in the women’s 400M Hurdles… Don’t ask.

In the field, Karen Jehan was competing in the discus competition. She threw 23.92m, just short of her PB.

Glenn and Josh looked awesome in their 100M Semis. Both ran a good final, Josh finishing 4^th in 11.11 and Glenn 5^th in 11.13.

Controversy of the day came in the Women’s 800M Wrestling, which is a particular strength of the Scottish Islands, the leader, and first across the line, ran pretty much diagonally down the home straight for no other reason than to block the eventual winner Emma Leask. Sarah was in the battle for Bronze (4^th). If we can invoke the disqualification for “rightly standing your ground when you have no other option” rule 601.80 (Ingy’s been spending far too much time with officials) then Sarah’s up to bronze but…. Hey…we’re not like that.

In the 400m final, Tom ran dominantly to win in a time of 46.71, to Dale’s relief, missing his Island Games record by .01 of a second. Tom’s race was of great interest amongst the rest of the team… Congratulations to Ross for winning the sweepstake (making the closest guess of what time Tom would run, with a guess of 46.72).

In the women’s 200M final, Teresa ran yet another strong race in a competitive field, finishing 6^th in a time of 25.95.