I went to my son’s school sports day yesterday.
It was a really good day with a good time had by most.
As always it made me think about my long LONG distant athletic prowess :unsure:
back then i ran the 200m and 400m and also threw the discus.
What if any event did YOU compete in and were you any good?
Long distance running used to be my thing, was crap at sprinting. Not as fit as I was when I was at school but I do have two runs planned this year for Cancer Research, 5k run next month and a 10k run in September.
Running the cake stall;):P:D:D
I was a sprinter and a long-distance runner. I was crap at the 400m and 800m events, though: too fast to be a jog, too far for an all-out sprint.
I’ve heard that when Linford Christie takes part in the Dads’ race at his kids’ sports day, he runs ** as fast as he possibly can ** . Must be a tad disheartening to have kids in the same class as his… 
Javelin, high jump and long jump. I was more into swimming to be honest.
I did the same as chunky.
I was never any good at athletics type things, I was more of a team sports kind of guy, Rugby, Football & Cricket. My son’s first sports day is coming up. I’m rather sad that I’m at work, and due to overspending my annual leave allowance, I can’t take the day off. On the plus side it means I won’t be humiliated in any of the parent races…my son’s school is within a Military estate, and most of the Dads, and some of the Mums are squaddies, who obviously do a lot of training
I’m in 6th form but in my previous school i was the best at Javelin, still think I’ve got the record, and i also won the districs cup (which my teacher still owes me) with javelin.
But since then i haven’t even held a Javelin. 
The mile, where I was moderately capable. Thank the lord there were a few realy good guys at the same time so I never had to do anything more than the school stuff.
All that Saturday area and county stuff passed me by so I could get on with the paper round, butchers round and anything else that fueled my bikes for time trials.
At which, I was cr*p.
Rugby and cricket, rugby I was forced to do because I was tall and could run fast, especially for my age, and cricket because it’s a good skive ! 
I did a lot of cycling and swimming too but they weren’t school events.
I played rugby quite seriously for quite a few years and wasn’t too shabby at cricket but the best bit was the teas:D
decathalon…running swimming cycling was good at hockey til i got banned for breaking someones ankle:w00t:
used to love bashing ankles in hockey!
i was never into ‘normal’ sports…gimme a mountain bike a big jump and some forest and im away!
or a fishing rod… and i’ll catch anything that swims:D
not really sports day activities tho…oh well:w00t:
Athletics-wise, used to do the 400, 1500 and hurdles - all with a deal of success.
Otherwise played rugby and hockey to a reasonable standard.
Managed to play full back and second row in one match…
Rugby, beach hockey, swimming and athletics I was force to do the 200m and 800m. I did end up enjoying the 800m, wasn’t fast enough for the sprints and not enough stamina for the longer distances. Just right for the 800m.
Absolutely no chance that I could do it, but I can still swim 4KM in less than an hour (but not at the moment do to the ribs).
Middle distance running, I still have all my sports day certificates from junior school & up until the 3rd year in senior school, then we got bored. In my 5th year at senior school we all boycotted the sports day, much to the anger of our teachers, we were more interested in our mopeds - but that was back in the days of anarchy in the uk.
Havn’t got any certificates for the Egg & spoon race though :hehe:
Football’s really my game, I’m a goalkeeper. I played a few seasons in semi-pro leagues (for the Met mainly) in my youth until I broke my leg.
As for athletics at school, I was a 100m and 200m sprinter. Any further than that and I was rubbish!
I did hurdles for my school in the district cup but only cos no other looser in my school would do it! We were the school that came last in everything. And I did my school proud by regulaly coming last in hurdles
Javelin, high jump and long jump BECAUSE I WAS SO TALL
Competed at national level at 400m when I was 15/16 and was very good over hurdles over 80m and 100m. People said my niche would be 400m hurdles
Was predicited to compete for GB at the olympics, but quit for an education - what a div :crying: now am unfit and am too injury prone from over training at a young age probably.
