Round 12 - Relayathon - This Saturday 22. February
This Saturday 22. February we’re back at our home track with one of the highlights of the season: the annual Relayathon! Read below for the Relayathon rules and click here for the program.
U6 - U8 families: Please arrive by 8:15am for warm-up and for an 8:30am start
U9 - U17 families: Please arrive by 9:45am for warm-up and for a 10:00am start
Duties:
U6 families: Set-up duty. Please arrive at 7:30am and visit the club room to enter your name on the duty sheet.
U12 families: Pack-up duty. Please remember to sign out when we are finished packing up.
For all mid-session duties: Please sign up for the duty at the start of the session, grab a vest and ensure you have your name recorded at the Duty Board so we can count it for Duty Bond refunds.
To assist you with planning, all remaining duties for the season are published on our duty page.
Relayathon:
The Relayathon is a fundraising event for the Royal Children's Hospital, endorsed by LAVic. It is a continuous relay using a single baton, where the overall aim is to work together to run as many laps as possible within a three hour period. At Mentone we add an additional element where age-group teams compete to see who can run the most laps in a set period of time.
The basic rules are as follows:
Relayathon will start at 9am and finish at 12 noon.
Girls and boys from the same age group will run as an age-group team.
Age-group teams will have 20 minute time periods to run as many laps as possible.
Athletes must run relay legs of at least 100m.
Only completed laps are counted toward the age-group team tally.
Family and friends may also run in the gaps between age-group teams or help if their child's age-group team gets tired, although at least one athlete from the age-group team must run a leg of each lap during their timeslot.
Change-over stations will be at the middle of each straight and the middle of each bend.
Additional Parent Helpers are needed to oversee the change-over stations.
Cash and EFT donations can be made on the day and will go to the Royal Children's Hospital Good Friday Appeal. The Centre will match these donations up to a limit of $500. If you make an online donation directly to the Good Friday Appeal, send your receipt to mentone@lavic.com.au before the 15th March and we will also match these donations up to our limit.
Athletes are also encouraged to generate sponsorship money - for example they could ask for sponsors for their age-group team on a per lap basis. As a guide, teams do 10-15 laps.
Mentone LAC will also donate a base amount of $250 to the Monash Children's Hospital, AND an additional $3 per lap to Monash. We feel this is important as our kids are more likely to go to Monash in an emergency.
Other info:
Summer is returning! Please remember to bring hats, sunscreen and drink bottles - keep them filled! Don’t forget to bring the chest patches!
Drinks, snacks and BBQ will be available for purchase and our coffee man Lenny and his team will be there. Uniforms will be available for sale as well.
Handbooks! If you replied to our survey with ‘yes’ and haven't collected your copy yet please see us at the canteen. We’ve got a few spares if you missed the survey and would like to grab one - they are great!
Seaford is hosting their Open Day on Sunday 2. March. Click here for registrations
Go Mentone!