28 celsius one week, cold and wet the next.

Second round of track & field for summer 2003-4. Clouds eased to sunny breaks for the first event. It looked like a nice day.

The 3000 metre walk was spent looking over my shoulder, with someone not too far behind. I'd started reasonably quick and thought I may fade. Not to be however. Finished in front, 13.16. Back very stiff after, however.

I spent the next three quarters of an hour placing the lane blocks at the 300 for the 800 metres before the clouds returned, blacker than ever, and proceeded to dump on the track.

(The lane blocks: the 800 metre runners start and run in lanes for 100 metres then revert to the inside lane. An official is required to check that runners comply with this, and then remove the two inside lane markers before the field comes around on their second lap, and then to replace them for the next heat.)

The meeting was cancelled after the eights, as 75% of the meeting could not have been completed in order that points stand - field events become dangerous in the wet, and cancellation is complusory.

Several disappointed 3000 and 5000 runners staged their own event.