I Found an Athletic Club a.k.a. Track and Field Team

So this week I responded to an email about a 6km run that is going to be held on the 21 of September. In the email they had set a time to meet every Monday and Friday to get a workout in. I ran down to where I thought they would be meeting and asked an older man if this is where the Bay Fun Run works out and trains. He told me no and this was the athletic club and thought that the people doing the Fun Run worked out on the other side of the street. So I jogged over to the other side of the street and saw people doing something similar to a stepping class. I first thought to myself "You got yourself into the wrong type of Fun Run" so I waited until that stuff was over before I asked to speak with someone in charge. She assured me that I was in the right area and asked me to join in, so there I was jumping rope, squatting with 4 lb dumbells, using elastic bands for resistance, and listening to techno music with her shouting "Alright! Good job! Only 2 more! Almost there!" and so on. At the very end we had a small relay race and if you were not actively racing at the time you were to be doing lunges. The people in the group are not the fastest individuals in Australia and that equated into doing lunges for about 5 minutes straight. So my quads and hammies were feeling a little sore after 5 minutes. To round out the session we were asked to go on a run up to campus and back, I was all for that being that this is what I thought we were going to be doing all along. After the session was over I ran over to the Athletic Club (Track and Field Team) and asked if I could speak to the sprinting coach. I spoke with Tony about joining the team and asked him about the competition. He told me in the up coming weeks they would be burning lanes into the field where they would have meets and practices. I could not attend practice the next day for I had prior commitments of attending the Pancake House which is all you can eat pancakes on Tuesdays for 7 dollars. I did however attend practice on Wednesday still feeling a little sore from Monday's workout (sorry coach). I did a small workout and talked to Tony for a little while about track and what my goals of training with the team would be. He was a very interesting man who I will hopefully get to know a little better as I continue to train. Tomorrow we will be going to the Adelaide Show which is basically a fair/carnival and Saturday night is a toga party. This weekend should be quite intersting with the toga party and also other random activities.