I traveled with 13 students to Hong Kong for APAC (asian Pacific athletic conference). This is the last meet for the cross country season. Students are placed in home stay so they spend the nights with host families. Coach schedule is pretty exhausting but chaperoning not as difficult except to contact the home stay parents each night to talk to students. They spent the days with us.
We arrived on Wednesday afternoon and walked the course with other schools. It is a tough course with 1k being a tough uphill. The 1k down is on different surfaces and part pretty slippery. Here are a few shots while in the course of the views which are spectacular.
Hong Kong International school is beautiful and on a hill as everything is. They really optimise space here and the school and views are breathtaking.
The next day was the race. Of course it rained which made the course treacherous. Our kids are not the fastest but they are so supportive of each other and have definitely improved this season.
I will still run with kids twice a week with those that are interested.
After the race we went to ocean park fur the afternoon. Student’s then went back to homestay and coaches had the night free. The last day was a competition with can jam and corn hole games to build cooperation and team building. Then an awards ceremony before heading back to the train to go back to guangzhou. What a nice end to the season.