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As a second work experience, me and some of my friends signed up for a four day army experience. We spent the week at Okehampton Army Camp which is on the northern edge of dartmoor.
Day 1
After an 8:00am drop off at school, and half an hour wait before departure on the minibus, I was off on the road to Okehampton. It was an easy 1 & half hour journey down the M5 and A30 before we arrived at base. We hauled our bags out of the minibus and took seats in the classroom. We arrived half an hour early so had to wait around a little bit before everyone else arrived. There was about 25 of us in total 5 girls and 20 boys. Half of the boys were in year 12 so were quite a bit older and bigger than the rest of us. The group was made up of people from 6 schools. once everyone had arrived, we recieved a brefifing and introduction. After this, it was lunch time. It was chilli beef. We then made our way to the store to recieve our gear. After finding the perfect fit, we were taking to our accommodation. It was a bit shit to say the least. 20 boys in one room on prison-style bunkbeds. We were instructed to put our kit on and bags in the lockers and then head on outside. Unfortunately, me an dmy friends were a little late heading out which meant one thing - press ups. We were then split up into three sections. My section commander was an air trooper. In our sections, we did icebreakers and then learned drill. I learned all of the fancy movements, turns and commands. We then had to put them to the test in a series of tests in a little competition between the other sections. After a stunning marching performance from myself, we headed to the naffy. The naffy is where soldiers go to chill out. It is equipped with vending machines, a pizza and burger kitchen, sofas, a bar and two pool tables. The naffy closes at 21:30 so we had to move our chill our session to our dorm. Bed time was 22:30 hours.
Day 2
Day 2 started off early with a 6:30am wake up by a shouting saergent. We were marched down for breakfast - a full english. After breakfast, we were taken to a careers presentation. We were allowed a break at the naffy for twenty minutes where I bought a full fat coke to wake me up a bit. After the break we were given three practical hands on lessons on shelters, knots and vehicle checkpoints. We were then marched down for lunch. After a quick lunch, we were marched up to our dorm and instructed to pack up because we would be going on an expidition. With all our kit, we were then marched back down to the store, where we recieved rubber replica rifles. As one of the three strongest members, I was one of three people who recieved a rifle without a sholder stap which meant that I would have to carry my rifle around at all times. Armed with our rifles, we hopped in the mini bus and were driven to the drop off point on Dartmoor. We then patrolled along over and through the hills to the campsite - a shitty little woods - quite literally shitty as it was covered in sheep poo. Using the skills we learned in our lesson earlier, we put up our shelters in which we would be sleeping under that night.
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The past week I have spent the week on my Yr 10 work experience. For my placement, I applied to the Curzon Cinema. I thought it was perfect as I love films, and am a regular visitor of the cinema, and I lterally live opposite the cinema, all I have to do to get there is cross the road! After an interview, and months of waitin, the day finally arrived.
Day 1
After a late start at 11am, I embarked on a tour of the cinema including behind the scenes. The tour was very interesting, and the Cinema has so much history as it's bound to seeing as it is the oldest continualy operating cinema in the world! However, despite it's age, it is equipped with the latest 4k projector and dolby surround sound 7.1. After the tour, I met with the CEO who discussed businesss, finance and how the charity operates. this was very interesting. Folowing that, I was given free popcorn, a drink of coke and made my way up to the balcony to watch Chevalier. A brilliant biopic entailing the life of french composer Joseph Bologne who defied soceity's harsh expectations of a black man at the time.
Day 2
Another late 11am start began with me writing a review on Chevalier which I had the honour of watching the day before. My review was then published to their website and can be read by clicking here. I then filled out the cinema's questionairre. Following this, I created my own questionairre aimed at younger peoeple, specifically teens. It consited of three questions: If a new film came out, would you rather watch it at the Curzon or a Multiplex chain cinema?; Other thatn films, what else would you like ot see at the Curzon?; What improvements and changes wuld you like to see to the venue?. I then lent a helping hand by sorting out their pop up stage and moving and sorting boxes of snacks and drinks. My next task was to dress hteir maniquen, hairspray style!. The cinema has an upcoming event as part of the event theming, the maniquen was to stripped of her usual usher's outfit and dressed up in a hairspray inspired outfit. I browsed through the cinema's vast collection of outfits. I had to google hairspray images for some inspiration. After searching through various outfits, I foud the right one. The next challenge was actually getting the cloths on the manequin, the manequin was almost as old as the cinema - very old! I had to use all my might to unscrew her arms, wrists and torso but eventually, she was dressed and ooking glorious! To end day 2, I created a poster using canva for the upcoming hairspray event.
Day 3
Day three started at 10:30am and began with one of the volunteers, a projectionist, showing us how the cinemas 35mm film projector works. It was very interesting and I learnt alot of facts about this old style of film projection. i even got to witness it in action as it played a snippet from and old war film on the big screen - and I was impressed The quality of the old film reels is actually superior to the modern day digital projector which is why some directors sucha as Quentin Tarantino and Christophr Nolan prefer to and still use the film reel to shoot their films on. I then wrote up a social media post for the cinema on the 35mm projector which you can view by clicking here. After this, I walked to school to cunduct my questionairre which I had created the day before. The turnout was incredible! I must've interviewed hundreds of students! Once I had all the responses i needed, I returned to the cinema and analysed the responses and wrote up the results. i found that most people prefer the Curzon to the multiplex chains because it's local and so easier to get to, and because it's cheaper. People mostly wanted to see live performances of musical theatre along side the films. In terms of changes to the venue, people wanted comfier seats, a bigger screen and cupholders. I then presented my findings to the CEO. I then wrote an event proposal and submitted it to the CEO - he loved it. I will publish my prosposal to this website soon.
Day 4
Day 4 started at 10:20am. I was asked to actually my event, which I did. I then attended a business meeeting with representatives from 39 businesses and representatives from North Somerset Council. And finally, I created props to be used in the photo booth of the upcoming hairspray event.
I still have one day left of work experience which is taking place next week on the 30th of June. I will update my blog afterwards.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my work experience at the Curzon Cinema. All of the staff were lovely and always provided me with interesting and enjoyable tasks. This week has given me a greater understanding of how the cinema operates. I have found it incredibly interesting and would consider volunteering there in the future. the cinema is also a museum and has so much interesting history, If you are interested in visiting the world's oldest continually operating cinema, exploring the ascinating museum and extraordinary historical objects, such as the late Queen Elizabeth's personal film projector, watching a film from it's unique balcony, taking in the view of it's beautifull and unique tin pannelling I recommend going back in time and getting lost in the big screen story on a 4k projector with Dolby surround sound 7.1. The Curzon also has many other events, including live music, comedy, theatre and filmaking workshops. Click here to find out more about this fantastic place.
After gaining free access to the adobe creative cloud through my school, I decided that I wanted to use it's industry standard tools on my own personal projects. I wanted to be able to use softwares such as Premier Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Lightoom & Adobe Animate. However, I had a problem. None of this software is available on chromeOS which is a problem for me as my laptop is a chromebook. So if I wanted to use this software, I was gonna need a mac or windows computor. It was also about time I upgrade from my chromebook too. I bought it in year 7 to do my homework on at a time when I wasn't at all interested in technology. It was the cheapest laptop they had, and I can see why. It was very slow, had little storage, barely any RAM, and the worst operating system there is. It was about time I upgraded. I began researching the required specs to run the adobe softwares. I discovered that I would need at least 8gb of RAM and I already knew that I would need a high performing, powerful processer. So I went onto Curry's PC world and searched for laptops & PCs. I set my filters to Windows 11, 8gb RAM, ect. I then sorted the results to lowest price. The cheapest was £575! So I did some research elsewhere and found nothing much cheaper. Just out of curiosity, I took a look at Macs on the apple website. A little desktop mac mini caught my eye. It is apple's cheapest Mac at £649 which was a fair bit more than the windows laptops but it had Apple's M2 chip. My currunt envolvement in the Apple ecosystem also drawed me towards the Mac. As I already have an Iphone 13 Pro, Iphone 11 pro & Apple watch series 3. Having a mac would allow me to integrate these devices with useful features such as handoff, and airdrop. Airdrop would be very useful for getting video files from my Iphones onto the Mac to ne used in Premier Pro. My only concern was that the Mac only had 8gb of RAM which although is the minmum recomendation, I thought that maybe the adobe software could be a bit buffery and laggy. So I hopped onto Youtube and did some research. I saw multiple videos of people using the base model Mac Mini to run the adobe softwares incredibly smoothly. So, my mind was made and I bought a Mac Mini. To save money, instead of buying the apple magic mouse and keyboard hich would've been an extra £149, I bought a third party keyboard and mouse from Amazon for just £23.99. I already had a monitor which I use for my xbox which I could use with the Mac. It arrived just a few days later. The unboxing experience was very satifying and exciting just as it always is with Apple. I set up the Mac and keyboard. Set up was very quick and easy. I straight away downloaded Adobe Animate, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop & Lightroom. With my new Mac, I was also able to install Blender & Unity which I've always wanted to use. I've had the Mac Mini for three days now, and I am thoughroughly pleased with it. The integration with my Iphones & Apple watch are very useful and cool. It handles these new apps with ease and without breaking a sweat. Its speed is infinitey better than what I was used to on my Chromebook. Uploading to Imgur is so much quicker and now has no lag at all and the same goes for my coding. I have so many exciting plans for how I will use my Mac Mini using my new software.
As Steve Jobs once said, "Give people great tools, and they will do great things."
Due to May day bank holiday and a teacher strike, I had a four day weekend. So on Saturday 31st April me and my mum flew from Bristol to Edinburgh where we would spend our next three days. Prior to leaving, I used apple maps to create a guide of places that I wanted to visit. We left for bristol airport at 9:00am for our easyjet flight to Edinburgh at 11:25am. I love airports so I was very excited to be at one for the first time in about four years. Check in was very easy as we didn't have any luggage for the hold. We just had to go through security, which was very quick, and then we were done. My mum took a browse through the airport shops, whilst I went plane spotting. I watched our plane land from Belfast before we were called to our gate. We were the first to arrive at the gate so didn't have to queue at all. After waiting in the gate for a short while, they allowed people to start boarding. We waited for everyone else to board before we left the gate because I'd rather sit in a nice spacious room with wifi than those cramped seats they have on easyjet. After everyone else had left, we made our way out and entered the plane from the rear. I was very pleased to find that I had a window seat although there wouldn't be much to see as it was very cloudy. I buckled up, activated flight mode on my phone and prepared for take off. I was very pleasantly surprised when the plane began to take off 20 minutes early. I had forgotten how fun take off is, how fast the plane goes and how cool it is when you begin to shoot off into the sky. Unfortunately, it was too cloudy to see anything on the flight, so I plugged in my headphones and listened to some music. I tracked our flight on apple maps on my phone. We went over the Brecon Beacons, Birmingham, Manchester, Carlsile, over the scottish boarder, Glasgow and before you knew it, we were landing in Edinburgh. It just so happened that we were landing 50 minutes earlier than scheduled - which I can't complain about! We were quickly let off of the plane and made our way out of the airport. It's very nice to be a domestic arrival as we were just able to walk straight out of the airport. Once out, we caught the tram into the city center. I've only ever been on a tram once before, in Dublin so it was quite exciting. During the journey we went through many different parts of the city, some run down housing estates, some fancy business parks, the BT Murrayfield Stadium and finally through grand georgian streets. We then made our may along Princes Street. Lined with blossom strees and statues and dominated by the view of the magnificent Edinburgh castle. We got off at Princes street and walked back down it. I was able to get many great pictures of the castle and the statues along the street. Once at the end of the street, we descended into Princes street gardens and made our way back towards the center. On the way, we saw the beautiful Ross fountain, Norwegian Memorial Stone, and other statues and memorials. We then came out at the other end of the park and made our way along Princes street to the Scott monument. We then went to St Andrew Square Garden and saw the Melville monument. It was raining quite badly, so we went into St James's Quarter - Edinburgh's new £1bn huge shopping center. We found a bench to sit on and eat our sandwiches. After lunch, I split up from my mum. She went shopping around St James's Quarter whilst I went site seeing. I started off by visiting the Wellington monument which was outside the general register house and opposite the Balmoral. I then walked down Waterloo Place, over regent's bridge and past the Political Martyrs' Monument. I then went to visit the Scottish government, before climbing up Calton Hill. There, I visited the Dugald Stewart Monument, City Observatory, Portugese Cannon, Nelson Monument, and the National Monument of Scotland. Calton Hill had a great view over lots of the city. It also had a good view of Arthur's Seat as it poked above the low lying cloud. I then made my way back down and onto Regent Road and then Regent Terrace. Regent Terrace was a very posh street of grand houses. It was also home to the US embassy, Swiss Embassy and Finnish Embassy. After walking past these, I walked back towards the center through Regents Road Park and up to the Burn's monument. I then continues upwards until I got to Jacob's ladder. Jacob's ladder is an incridebly steep set of steps that descend down under Waverly train station. The steps had a great view into Waverly where I could view the trains arriving and departing. I then walked up Calton Road and under Regent Bridge. I then met up with my mum back in St James's Quarter. I had a quick look around the lego shop before we went to St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral. We then walked down calton road to Holyrood Palace - the official residence of the King in Scotland. On the way, we went into a gift shop and I bought a little souvenir of Edinburgh Castle in a snowglobe. A handed over a £20 note and included in my change was a very unusual £10 bank note. Issued by Clydesdale bank. On one side was Edinburgh Castle and on the other was Robert Burns. It was very cool because I didn't know you could get different denominations of banknote. After researching though, I found that it technically wasn't legal tender, but most places in Scotland would accept it anyway as it's value was still £10. We then visited the Scottish Parliament and Dynamic Earth exhibiton. We then walked around the walls of Holyrood palace through Holyrood park. We then went into the Holyrood Palace cafe where I tried Irn Bru for the first time. It was a nice drink to add to my scottish experience. I was dissapointed when we tried to enter Holyrood Palace to find it closed but we decided to visit it the next day. We then walked up the royal mile before cutting back across to New Town through Waverly Station. I enjoyed walking through the station because I love trains and train stations. We walked along Princes Street to Bella Italia where we ate a nice pizza dinner. After this, my mum wanted to pop into primark. After primark, we went into poundland and bought a multipack of diet coke. We then decided to head to our hotel which was right on the southern outskirts of the city. We caught the number 16 bus from Princes Street to Dreghorn. The bus journey took about 35 minutes but it was a great way to see the city. We arrived at our stop and made the 10 minute walk to our hotel. We were staying at the cheapest travelodge we could find. It was situated right by the Pentland hills which was very nice. We checked in and checked out our room. It was very basic with a tv, chair, double bed and one portable bed. I was a gentleman and let my mum sleep on the double be whilst I slept on the portable bed. We watched a bit of TV before falling asleep.
Day 2.
This was going to be an action packed day. I had lots of places that I wanted ti visit. We got dressed and ready. Eating pain au chocolats we bought from the nearby garage for breakfast. I booked tickets for Edinburgh Castle, which we originally planned to visit first thing in the morning but turned out to be fully booked so I had to book for the evening. I had to rearrange my schedule but I think it turned out better that way anyway. We left the hotel to be greated by the nice shining sun. We caught the bus to Home Street. We got off at home street and walked up Lauriston Place to the Telfer Wall. We walked along the Telfer wall to the Flodden Wall. We then walked down the vennel steps and entered Old Town. We had a look around grass market before walking up Granny's Green Steps, which had a great view of Edinburgh Castle. We visited a nice little church called St. Columbus-by-the-castle we then visited the free church of Scotland before walking down onto Victoria Street. We then visited Greyfriars Kirk and took a walk around the cemetary which is home to Tom Riddle's Grave aka Voldemort in Harry Potter. We then visited the Grayfriars bobby and then onto the Magdalen Chapel. Then we walked back up victoria street and onto the royal mile. Here we saw the sight of the last public execution, Heart of Middlothian, St Gile's Cathedral, The Mercat Cross and the Adam Smith Statue. Further down the mile, we found a nice bakery, where we bought a cake to keep to eat on top of Arthur's seat. Near the bottom of the mile, we saw Queensberry house which is a 17th century A-listed house. At the foot of the mile was Holyrood Palace. We stopped off in the cafe and ate scones for lunch. After lunch, we started our climb up Arthur's seat. It was incredibly cool and so very unique to have this giant hill in the middle of the city. But as we started the walk, the sun dissappeared and the rain started to fall. It got very windy too. We continued the climb which was a very beautiful one. The climb wasn't too diffuicult. It was very busy though. Especially at the top. The view of the city from the top was very good. It offered a 360 degree view of the entire city. I could see everything. We decided to leave Arthur's seat down the opposite direction to the one which we came up from. This way was equally as beautiful and alot less busy. At the botttom was Dunsapie Loch which too was very beautiful. We then took the nice walk through Holyrood Park along Queen's drive. We walked past St. Margaret's Loch and St. Margaret's Well before arriving back at Holyrood Palace. My mum sat in the cafe whilst I went round the palace. The palace was very well presented and I thouroughly enjoyed the audio guided tour. Every visitor is given a handheld screen with headphones. Whilst moving through the palace, the screen would display relevant picture's and videos about each room and it's history. With a narration for each room and interactive rubbaways on the screen. The rooms of the palace were incredible and it's collection of jewellry from past monarchs was also very impressive. The gardens and abbey were also very nice. I very much enjoyed the palace. After leaving the palace, I met up with my mum and we walked back up the royal mile. We stoppd off outside St. Gile's Cathedral and ate our cake's which we bought earlier. We then went into and toured St. Gile's Cathedral. After this we headed on up to the castle. On the way up, we saw two bagpipe players dressed in kilts. After enjoying their music, we continued on up to the castle. We took a look around at the monuments, memorials and statues they had around the entrance and took in the view of the city. We then went into the castle. It really wasn't what I was expecting. We visited the one o'clock gun exhibit, national war museum, Mill's mount battery, The royal scots dragoon guards museum, Prisons of war, Governor's house, Mons meg, St. Margaret's Chapel, Museum of the royal regiment of Scotland, Queen Anne building, The great hall, David's tower and the Royal Palace where we saw the Crown Jewells and Sceptre. The castle was packed with things to see as well as offering great views of the city. After the castle, we visited the witches well and Riddle's court. We then cut through Waverly into New town to Pizza hut for tea. Then, after a busy day, we caught the number 16 bus back to our hotel.
Day 3
Day 3 had arrived. The day that bought our holiday too an end but nevertheless, I had another action packed day planned. we got up and enjoyed a chocolate croissant in bed whilst watching BBC news. Then we said goodbye to our hotel and checked out. We took in the views of the Pentland hills for the final time and caught the number 16 bus for the last time. This time we took the bus right through the city center and out to the ocean terminal. It was a long 1 hour 10 minute bus journey but it was a great way to parts of the city that we hadn't explored. After arriving at the ocean terminal, we took a look around the shopping centre before making our way to the royal yacht Britannia. The royal yacht was the yacht of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. We toured the boat, which was massive. The boat was very interesting. We saw rooms of the royal family and the yachtsmen. As well as the boats own operating theatre, bridge, dining room, living room, kitchens, engine room and three bars. It was a very good museum. After this it was lunch time, so we went to gregs and I bought a pepperoni pizza and margarita pizza and I bought my mum a sausage roll and diet coke. I used my fancy scottish £10 note as I wanted to get rid of it as I probably wouldn't get away with using it in England. We then caught the numer 35 bus from the ocean terminal to the Dean Bridge. We got off and had a walk around the posh terraces before walking over Dean Bridge. We then decended into Dean Village, which was very pretty. We then walked along a forest path called The Dene which followed the Water of Leith to St. Bernard's Well which was a very nice monument. We then walked back to Dean village and through it to St. Mary's Cathedral. This was a very nice cathedral structurally. We had now visited every cathedral in Edinburgh. After this, we walked through the grand streets of the West end, past the German Embassy, Russian Embassy, Italien Embassy and Japanese Embassy to Charlotte square which was home to the west register house and the georgian house. We then walked along Queen's street and across to Princes Street to Waverly Station. I caught a train to North Queensferry to view the forth bridge whilst my mum stayed and shopped around Princes Street and the Waverly Market. The train journey was only 20 minutes and was very cool to go over the forth bridge. The forth bridge is a UNESCO world heritge site. I got off at North Queensferry Station and walked down into the town. I walked along the harbor, pier and beach to photograph pictures of this beautiful bridge. It was a marvel of engineering and built with beauty in mind - something we don't see very often now in modern architecture. It made a real roar as trains rushed over it. I then caught the train from North Queensferry back over the forth bridge to Dalmeny. From there, I walked to South Queensferry to view the bridge from the South. I then caught another train from Dalmeny back to Waverly. I then met my mum and we caught the 100 bus to the airport. We said goodbye to the city center as we passed Edinburgh castle for the final time. It was also nice to see other parts of the city from the bus. The journey also gave me time to reflect on the amazing holiday we had had. I very much enjoyed myself and loved Edinburgh. I was really sad to be leaving but if I never left, I would never appriciate it as much. We arrived at the airport and quickly mad eour way through. Although I got stopped at the security checkpoint. It turns out I forgot to remove all liquids from my bag. My snowglobe had to be taken out and drug tested! Once they confirmed that my snowglobe was not drugs, we headed off to burger king for dinner and then headed off to the gate. We boarded the plane, and said our final goodbyes to Edinburgh. There was rather alot of turbulance on our flight. It was once again very cloudy so we couldn't see anything. And before you knew it, we were back in Bristol. Just like on the flight there, this flight landed early too. 20 minutes early this time.
I had an incredible time and took some incredible photos (1217 photos in total!). We visited over 60 monuments and attractions and walked over 30 miles. Edinburgh is an incredible city with so much history and incrible architecture and natural landscapes. Edinburgh, I love you and will miss you forever!
As part of my school's "creative showdwon" competition I ran the outline of a shark (my house's mascot) for my PE creative showdown entry.
I first came up with the idea whilst watching an advert for the Duke of Edinburgh award. I liked the music and the running shots so I though to myself, "what can I do that would use this music and similar running shots?" and that's how I came up with this idea to run the outline of a shark!
Before I even knew if it was actually possible to run such a shape, I started with the video editing. After finding the DofE advert on youtube, I tried to shazam it to find the music but there were no results. So I searched for "upbeat energetic music" on youtube and after a very long process of checking every single video, I finally found the same piece of music. I downloaded it and started adding backgrounds and titles to the video on imovie. I manually edited the length of each background to match with the beat of the music.
After completing the initial video editing process, it was time to see if I could actually make a shark shape in the roads of my town. I hopped onto google maps disance measurer and played around for quite some time with different routes until I found the perfect one which certainly resembled a shark route.
With the route planned and embedded into my mind it was time to actually do the run. With my apple watch tracking the route, I set out in the freezing temperatures, running on the icy pavements. Making sure to be carefull as I went as I didn't want to slip over - I had some very close calls!
After the run was done, I got my mum to film clips of me running in the garden, I told her the angles, tracking and composition I wanted.
After that, the only thing that was left was to finish the editing process. But when I went to check the run on the apple fitness app, it wasn't there. So I checked the apple watch app on my Iphone to find that my watch was still paired to my old phone. So, I fired up my old phone and checked the apple fitness app but the run wasn't there either. I thought that maybe it could be something to do with the non-up-to-date IOS on my old phone, so I uodated it, checked the app and it still wasn't there! Maybe it could be something to do with my outdated apple watch software? So I updated that too but had no luck. It was only when I went onto Safari and recieved the message "Your Iphone's date & time are not up to date, continuing may be dangerous." that I then realised my phone had the "1970 bug" this is a bug on the iphone's that randomlly change the date to the 1st January 1970 everytime the device restarts. So, I went into the phone's settings and changed the date and time to the current and sure enough, that fixed the issue and I was able to access the fitness information. I airdropped the data and map to my other phone and continued the editing process. Once done, I emailled it to the judge - the results are announced on the 8th February so fingers crossed for then.
You can view the results here
As part of my school's "creative showdown" competition I created a Rangoli pattern for the maths cetegory. A Rangoli pattern is a pattern that is symetrical on all for quaters. I wanted my pattern to have a theme. I chose to use the house system as the theme for my pattern. I decided I would use icons of the school's mascots to form a pattern. I needed a centerpiece to place all of the icons around. I decided to use the school logo as it fits well with the theme. I then played around with the icons to place them apropriatley whilst maintaining the symetrical side of things. I made this entirely in powerpoint.
Click here to see the result
This year I entered into my town's SwimRun race. It consisted of a 6km run and 1km swim. The run and swim was split so we had to run 0.5km, swim 250m, run 2km, swim 250m, run 1km, swim 250m, run 2km, swim 250m and then a short run of 0.5km to the finish line. It was a tough challenge but very enjoyable. I won the under 18 age category (aged 13).