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Hello beautiful people! I hope you all are doing fine. It is mid week already, and I know that that would mean different things to different people.

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Sports Day

For me, every mid week (Wednesday) is a time for sports in my school. Well, I mean as long as school is in session. It is always a refreshing time joining other teachers for various sports activities with the kids in our school.

Of course, each time we do that, I can't help but remember when I myself was a child in school, excitedly joining in the fun on sports day, with races, high jumps, long jumps, rope jumping and several other activities.

However, there is an incident I remember that happened when I was thirteen and by then I was in junior high school.

So, the secondary school I attended at that time was always the host to AAA competition, that is a competition organised by the Amateur Athletics Association. This competition usually would feature a lot of field events and track events, and of course a lot of training takes place before the week of the competition. Several other schools from our Local Government Area normally come to our school to participate in the week-long competition.

Due to some health issues I had at that time, my parents had submitted a health report from the doctor to my school, and because of that I was not allowed to participate in any strenuous activity whether for work or play. That meant I was only allowed to be a spectator during the trainings. Of course, that was not acceptable to me but there was no amount of pleading with my teachers that would make them go against the instructions they had received about my case.

Going For A Marathon

Then came the opportunity I was looking for. There was going to be a marathon, and that meant almost every one in my school was going to participate. I quickly merged into the crowd that was waiting for the marathon to begin though in the company of my friends. As the gun went off, so did every one of us.

It wasn't long before I began to feel tired, but I was determined to keep going since I could alternate between walking and jogging. Many of my friends that were serious about the race had to leave me behind, only two stayed with me, so we continued walking, talking and jogging. At that time, it was already clear we would not be able to join those that would represent our school.

After what seemed to be a very long while, I and my friends were considering whether to turn back and start returning when we heard a car horn coming from behind us. Looking back, we saw our school bus coming. I felt like hiding, but there was no hiding place.

The school bus came and stopped beside us. I can never forget the look and scolding I received from our sports master and the school matron that day. We were asked to enter the bus, and as we moved on some other students who were tired were picked up on the way, but non of them received the scolding I did. I kept praying that I wouldn't be taken to the principal's office because... it wouldn't have been funny.

By the time we drove back to school, the main Gs had already got back and we knew who and who would be representing the school when the main competition.

I quietly accepted the fact that I would not be representing my school for anything sports until my health improved. Funny enough, by the time my health became better, I decided to focus more and more on my studies, and I had more opportunities representing my school for academic competitions (Schools' Challenge, Science Quizzes, Writing Competitions etc). You just can't have them all, right.

Thank you for reading my post to this point. I can't wait to read what you think about it, so please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

This post is my entry for the Day 6 prompt from the #juneinleo calendar. You can join the challenge and write on the exciting topics available for this month. See this post here by @leogrowth for more details.

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