PPAC-88 400m Race and Sprint Masterclass

Youth athletes were put through their paces with sprinting practice and drills this week before testing out newly learned skills in a 400m race held in five heats

The session started with a 10 minute jog followed by some ground contact exercises and strides. Athletes then practiced the crouch start for sprints before a final section working on full sprinting form.

Youth girls (plus one senior) went in the first two heats with Sokry and Sokung winning respectively. Sokung's 1:24 also scored her a big new points PB while Sreypov ran a point scoring performance for the first time.
In the third heat, Mon Mey scored a big points PB with his winning time of 1:13, scoring points for the first time and finishing three seconds ahead of Paul with the two youth athletes further back.
In the penultimate heat, four U12 boys raced the 400m for the first time with Mau the standout performer finishing well ahead of the others in 1:37.
Finally event organisers Meyjou and Jack ran head to head with Jack edging to the win in the day's best time of 1:10.39. However, Meyjou's 1:12.34 was the top overall performance scoring 527 points to Jack's respectable 340.

Special thanks this week to coach Meyjou, volunteers Paul and Jack and the others who supported this event by accompanying the athletes or helping in any other way. We hope the athletes enjoyed the session!

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