Edinburgh's David Jenkins winning 1971 European 400m Helsinski
For me I
got up very late.
I spread the word about my idea to hold an athletics
competition up at Redford Barracks Stadium on the cinder athletics track.
Well
the word spread like wildfire and soon there were about forty of us all piling
up there either walking up or on bikes and all in our various shorts, T-shirts,
baseball boots and rubbers. What a sight it was seeing everyone climbing over
the big metal fence; it was like we'd launched an attack on the Queen's Army!
Fortunately there were no soldiers about or those who did see us just ignored
us. We used the cinder track as well as the long jump pit. The track is great;
you can fly along on it. Amongst doing all the organisation arranging the races
and age groups as well as recording everything I managed to pick up four golds
myself.
Everybody had great fun; it was a really big success and all down
to BBC's David Coleman; the Europeans; and Scotland's inspirational David
Jenkins! Amazing how something happening on the big world stage seeps through
to a wee community like Oxgangs. A very happy day.
However the air was taken
out of my balloon a wee bit in that back home a lady had come up earlier about
me to go the hospital on Wednesday. It's all about the skiving and the Biology
lab incident! It's actually the day I go back to the school; the sunshine of
the school summer holidays is about to come to an end when it meets the dark
clouds of a new academic session at Boroughmuir Senior Secondary School.
Gaga was up to see us and
treated us all to Rissi's chips which I needed after all my exploits today.
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