Athletics for pre-schoolers

Hey there,
Do any of your pre-schoolers do athletics? What age do they generally start? And what sort of things do they do (just running races at first?) I can imagine it would be chaos with pre-schoolers!!

And do they enjoy it?

We are thinking of enrolling Jake if hes old enough - he'll be almost 3.5 at the start of the season. He loves running around just for the sake of running, so thought it would be a good way to burn off some energy. But I'm wondering if maybe it would be better to leave it til next year when hes a bit older, as hes in daycare 3 days and already doing soccer on sat mornings. Although we may miss one term of soccer anyway as we're away a bit next term so I'm considering athletics instead (free vs $140ish a term!).

Thanks :)

I was looking at this this weekend interestingly - and seeing as you are also out west - i found 2 groups that offer for preschoolers. One in Massey - and one Te Atatu South, Tirimoana school i think, which was forom 2 years of age. Their seasons both start in October, so we're rthinking we might try the tirimoana one. I think one wwas $20 for the season...