On your marks. Get set. Go.
The Otago Athletics track and field season got under way with an open interclub event at the Caledonian on Saturday.
Youngster Phoebe Laker broke the first records of the season.
The Aspiring runner broke the women’s 15, 16 and 17-year-old 400m records with her time of 56.93sec.
Otago’s season was "officially" opened with the spring challenge 3000m last month, but the weekend
was the first time for athletes in the shorter distances, and in the field, to get back in action.
There is plenty more on the calendar in a busy first half to the season.
The Otago 5000m championships are on November 2, followed by the South Island combined event and Ness Cup on the weekend of November 16-17.
The Otago mile championships will be held on November 23, and secondary school athletes will be building up to the national secondary school championships being held in Timaru from December 6 to 8.
Things do not slow down in the new year, either, with the Otago 10,000m championships, Otago-Southland combined championships and the Potts Classic.
Dunedin will also host the national track and field championships from March 6 to 9.
