The officiating courses run at Sport Wanganui, in conjunction with the weekly club night, started slowly, but there has been a pleasing increase in numbers in the last fortnight.
On Tuesday, we looked at long throws and those attending helped at the hammer throw where the officials outnumbered the competitors.
They were, however, able to witness Sam Donald produce the performance of the night with a personal best throw of 49.05 metres, which moves him up the New Zealand rankings.
He is closing in on the 50m barrier, with a Collegiate record of 52m also within his grasp, which if achieved could in the process give him a place in the leading six at the actual championships.
Tide will not affect the championships and hopefully the unrelenting wind of the last few weeks will abate by the start of December.
The conditions have been hard for athletes, with Tuesday evening one of the windiest at the track for some time.
The 2000m road runners faced strong winds between Ridgway St and Guyton St, but it did not deter the in-form Geordie Beamish from recording a course record and personal best in 5m 33.42s, one second inside the record he set a month earlier.
Alice Bird was the leading girl, finishing in fifth position and she too took four seconds off her best, as did all seven leading runners (Jamie Gillespie, Sam Medlicott, Louis Hogan, Thomas Conder and Finn Cleary).
Max Attwell continued to impress, setting a personal best in the 300m of 35.60s, and ran well against the head wind to win the 60m sprint.
In both events Year 11 student Harry Symes challenged strongly, highlighting his promise as a sprinter.
Over distance events, Josh Ledger ran an excellent even-paced 600m in which he had to face the head wind on two of the three straights, he handed a rare defeat to Geordie Beamish (1m 24.11s to 1m 27.30s).
Although in Beamish's defence, the 600m was only 15 minutes after the aforementioned road race.
Eleven year old Genna Maples continued her excellent form in beating older, well performed athletes, including hurdler Myah Jex-Blake and her older sister, Lexi, over 60m. Genna is certainly a name to note for the future.
A large group of Wanganui athletes will travel to Wellington tomorrow for the final Regional League meeting.
Most will use the event as a dress rehearsal for the Schools' Championships a fortnight later.
Unfortunately, the weather forecast is not good at a time when athletes need the positive confirmation that they are coming into form.