Pointless Question of the Week #7

[sqdge]

It must be Wednesday, I must have too much time on my hands, so here is this week's PQOTW.

 

Today is our school sports day. When I was child I hated sports day. It wasn't that I was bad at sports, I was just average - so I never won a race, nor did I lose one. I was rarely picked to do anything, so I spent the entire afternoon getting sunburn on the school field wondering if anyone would notice if I just went home.

 

However, I do remember once winning a 4 mile run and being talked about for about, ooh, 3 hours. It was quite nice. And it leads me on to this week's question:

 

What is your greatest sporting achievement?

 

It doesn't have to be from your school days.

[webman]

Bugger all

[sqdge]

Bugger all

 

Not even an egg-and-spoon race?

[bishopsgarthstockton]

completed a 24hr endurance x country cycle race.

 

Just got in to Kite surfing, so will probably have a go at a competition in couple of years time, if i dont get eaten by a bloody seal

[Guest richard]

Catching a 36lb pike when I was a teenager. My heaviest coarse fish to date. Apart from that I can't think of anything.

[PageZ]

My name was put forward to the England selectors to play darts for England against Scotland and Wlaes. I didn't get picked....

 

Cheers

Mr B

[webman]

Nope Like yourself I was a middle-of-the-road kid and didn't win anything.

 

I got hit in the eye with a tennis ball (at quite some speed) though, if that counts

[PageZ]

My name was put forward to the England selectors to play darts for England against Scotland and Wlaes. I didn't get picked....

 

Cheers

Mr B

[ConTheITGuy]

While at primary school, we entered 2 teams into my (future) high school's summer fair 5 aside comp. I have always been useless at football, but a few of us went down to watch, and because it was just a laugh, the teacher let us play. The two teams got swapped around a fair bit throughout the day. The last match for our 2 teams was against each other. A particular one would get placed if they beat the other. So, the strategic, and sportsman like instruction from our teacher was "Team A, stand still and let Team B win!" I was on Team A for that match, but because I had played for Team B during the day - I got a medal, my first and only medal for football - it is quite treasured!

 

 

Andy

[elsiegee40]

I was at the top end of Ladies Division 2 for K1 Slalom (kayak)...

 

And won the girls K1 event at the North Yorkshire Schools Slalom Championships

 

I was rubbish at everything else! Although I vaguely remember coming 2nd in the 800m at Sports Day aged about 15 as I was one of the few fit enough not to drop dead by 400m!

[Jake]

Ladies....sports....kits.........

 

*faints*

 

(I played squash in a hampshire league, back in my younger, and CONSIDERABLY fitter days)

[Norphy]

Realising that I didn't have to participate in sports days and never bothering again

 

Does completely mullering everyone in a Midtown Madness 2 tournament at a LAN party count as sport?

[witch]

CAGE, Jake!

 

I was the second reserve for the Netball team when I was 13

I never did anything with sport at my high school (a girl's grammar). You were either good at sport, very very academic or good at music.

Guess which one I am!!

 

I do a lot more exercise now but nothing competitive - I can't help thinking that knocking a ball back and forth is a bit pointless.

[kearton]

Getting picked for my Primary school's first XI cricket team back in NZ in the early 80's by opening the bowling at the "trials", and taking 4 wickets in the first over (including a hat-trick).

[Scotmk]

When I was about 14, I won a cracker eating competition, I ate 2 cream crackers the quickest, no water. Very dry, but I won a selection of taped and posters. Does this count?

[localzuk]

I think it would be completing my Duke of Edinburgh hiking things without killing anyone in my group - that took restraint!!

 

Other than that, it would be figuring out how to get out of all sporting stuff in year 11

[Friez]

Me + Sport = don't mix.

 

Most memorable moment was being taken on a school trip and having to do an assault course race that included shuffling across a rope that spanned a river and falling into a river.

 

Oh and I can't swim.

 

The PE staff had a fit. Was awesome.

 

Thankfully I managed to drag myself out of the riverbank (which was pretty much a deep trench, so it was like climbing a cliff), it was pretty difficult because I wasn't a particularly strong lad and was weighed down by heavy wet clothes.

 

We lost the race because of it, but I was more talked about than the winners

[bishopsgarthstockton]

Friez

 

Bless...

[Pottsey]

I did a 30 ish mile endurance ride and another time I spent over 6 hours in the saddle but didn’t cover any where near as many miles. That was a fun day started of with a 6 riders ended up with 2 riders by the end. One of the horse’s thought it would be fun to throw the rider off in the middle of nowhere where, cars couldn’t get to us.

[steve]

Playing basketball for my high school team (we never won a match though).

 

A hat trick of medals at high school on sports day. Javalin - Gold, Shot put - Silver, Discus - Bronze.

[Andrew_C]

Pretty rubbish at sports but...

 

In my 5th year we could choose some more "esoteric" sports, one term each. I fenced for a term, and once disarmed the teacher, who wasn't sure whether to be impressed, or not.

 

Another term was 10 pin bowling. I just missed 300; stuffing the same teacher. This time he definitely wasn't impressed. I'm still faintly surprised I didn't have to walk home rather than ride in the minibus!

[t_guest]

my sports are running after the teachers with a large hammer shouting i will not fix your computer :twisted:

 

only joking

 

it has to be the egg and spoon race i won 4 times at that the good memories come back to me

[gwendes]

When my mum beat everyone else's mum in the 100m mums race at Primary school - I think she's still faster than any of us!

 

I did a 'go round and round the field as many times as you can in half and hour at school and beat all the fast kids - mind over matter and all that jazz. Short distances I suck - but I'd beat them at Star Craft so swings and roundabouts, eh?

[CHR1S]

Won a troutmaster after going fly fishing for the first time... was a big fish

 

Played indoor 5 a side vs Birmingham City reserve team (or so I was told.. I was young and gullable).

 

I managed to break my arm 10 mins into my first ever snowboarding lesson... now thats an acheivement