💚💛 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝟭 𝗪𝗥𝗔𝗣 𝗨𝗣 – 𝗪𝗘𝗧, 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗗 & 𝗪𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗨𝗟! 🌧️🏃‍♀️

Let's just call it for what it was... a pretty miserable afternoon! 😂

As much as we all love athletics, there are definitely days when we wish athletics DIDN'T run in the rain and we could all just stay home, warm and dry!

𝗕𝗨𝗧... 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗕𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦! 🏆

When the rain finally arrived just 10 minutes before we were due to kick off, we honestly thought we'd be looking out over a pretty empty oval.

How wrong we were!

Not only did you turn up, but BOY did you perform! In some pretty awful conditions, you gave it your all, with huge smiles on your faces and SO MUCH cheering for your fellow athletes. And gosh, did it make us proud! 🥹💚💛

We saw the shivering. We saw the wet hair flopping into eyes. We saw the clothes absolutely plastered to bodies. We saw some very soggy shoes and some VERY cold little humans.

But did any of that stop you? Absolutely not!

You patiently rolled with schedule changes as we worked around safety concerns, waited through event delays while we battled a few technical gremlins, and just kept going. And we barely heard a complaint!

𝗧𝗢 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗦 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬 – 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨! 💚💛

Week 1 is always a bit chaotic as everyone finds their feet, learns the ropes and settles into the season. Throw in a whole lot of rain, some last-minute changes and a few teething problems with new equipment, and we certainly had our work cut out for us!

But you had our backs. Our athletes, parents, Age Managers, parent helpers and volunteers just got on with it, adapted and made the best of a pretty ordinary situation.

And we cannot tell you how much we appreciated that. ❤️

We're also pretty glad the sausage sandwiches, noodle cups and chicken chippee cups were there to warm a few cold bellies! 🌭🍜

A big thank you as well to everyone who arrived early to collect their registration packs. We've only got a handful left to hand out now! 🙌

🏅 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝟭 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗨𝗟𝗧𝗦

Wondering how your athlete went? Results can be viewed through our ResultsHQ platform!

New club members should have received a "Welcome" email from ResultsHQ when registering, while returning members should have received a "Welcome Back" email.

Use the login details provided in these emails to access ResultsHQ and keep up with your athlete's results throughout the season!

We're currently in the process of uploading all of our Week 1 results, and we're aiming to have everything available within the next 24 hours. So if you can't see everything just yet, hang tight!

Having trouble logging in? ResultsHQ has a handy troubleshooting guide covering the most common login issues and how to fix them.

👉 https://support.timingsolutions.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/51637692706841--Trouble-Logging-In-Athletes-Families

⏱️ 𝗔 𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗔𝗗 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦...

Unfortunately, our shiny new timing gates gave us a few headaches during their first official outing! 😬

While we're excited to have this fantastic new equipment up and running, we did experience some technical issues with the 70m races for our 6s, 7s, 8s and 9s age groups.

After reviewing the results, we're just not confident that the times recorded accurately reflect the performances of our athletes.

So, we've made the decision to rerun these 70m events at a future competition night.

We know that's not ideal, particularly after the effort everyone put in under such challenging conditions, but we want to make sure every athlete receives a fair and accurate result that reflects their hard work!

We'll be looking through our upcoming programs to find a suitable opportunity to squeeze these races back into the rotations, and we'll let everyone know once we've worked it out.

Thankfully, they're short races, so we're hopeful we can get them done without too much disruption!

Thanks for bearing with us while we iron out the teething problems. New technology is wonderful... when it behaves! 😂

📸 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗦?

Sorry, no weekly video this time around! Between the weather and everything else going on, we had our hands pretty full!

BUT this season we're going to endeavour to upload photos from each week's competition to our RevSport gallery, so you can jump on and see some of those wonderful smiling faces in action!

👉 https://www.armidaleathletics.org.au/gallery

Simply log in to your RevSport account to check them out. Wrap-Up videos hopefully returning next week!

𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗧𝗢𝗧𝗦 & 𝟲𝘀! 📸💚💛

And judging by those smiles, you'd hardly know they were competing in such miserable conditions!

So here's to Week 1. It certainly wasn't pretty, it definitely wasn't dry, and it wasn't quite how we'd pictured kicking off our season. We're hoping for a bit of sun soon because we have a lot of equipment that needs to dry out.

But it was full of determination, sportsmanship, laughter and a whole lot of heart.

And THAT is what our little club is all about.

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮... 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿! 🤞☀️😂

💚💛