[Misc] What's your greatest personal sporting achievement or memory as a participant?

Lady Whistledown · Dec 2, 2024

I played for the Sussex county representative football team, and the South East counties regional football side back in my day. Managed to trot around the Brighton marathon a couple of times.

But my best ever moment was playing baseball for a bit of fun one sunny summer afternoon while on a residential work training course. The first couple of bats, I hit the ball easily enough, but couldn't get enough power on it to get it over the mostly male fielders, so could never get round the bases before it was returned. I'm right handed. On the last bat, I switched to left handed just as the pitcher stepped up, miraculously hit it cleaner than I've ever struck anything in my life and watched it rise gloriously and majestically over the empty side of the field as I casually trotted round the bases for a home run.

Having never played baseball before then, I'd no idea if it was within the rules to switch hit just as the pitch comes in, but luckily for me, nobody else knew either, so my moment of triumph stood. To this day I've no idea how I hit it so sweetly. Those of you who play cricket will surely understand that feeling of deep, deep satisfaction when you absolutely middle one, with minimum effort and maximum result. Dreamy :lol:

mikeyjh · Dec 2, 2024

I once came second in the SIdmouth Folk Fesival junior pool tournament, I'm welling up thinking about it.

AK74 · Dec 2, 2024

Finished just ahead of Paula Radcliffe in the Nike Run London: North vs South event in 2006. I knew she was behind me, as the crowd cheered her all the way around the course in Hyde Park. Might have been my fastest 10km ever.

She was 6 months pregnant at the time.

Lenny Rider · Dec 2, 2024

Having been press ganged into running an Under 7‘s team in 2001, I ended up taking the squad right the way through to under 16’s, with a little bit of success, but most of all having fun and helping develop the lads from kids into young adults, I was then asked to be Worthing FC’s Under 18 manager which I did for 5 years, culminating in getting to the Third Round Proper of the F A Youth Cup, we eventually went out to Middlesborough in front over a thousand supporters at Woodside Road.

For me it wasn’t just about the football, it was about the boys development, far more important than any medals or cups was when one of my lads who we signed when he’d previously been knocking around with a bad crowd and his parents effectively begged us to take him on, told me when he was working on my new patio at home “Harty if it wasn’t for you I’d have gone to prison”

marcos3263 · Dec 2, 2024

I used to be the fastest runner and was very pleased that I never got caught in kiss chase. I used to sprint off and thought I was great while Jamie was a loser and was always caught by all the girls and got kissed repeatedly.
I now realise that the 10 year old me was a twat and Jamie was a player.

PeterT · Dec 2, 2024

AK74 said:
Finished just ahead of Paula Radcliffe in the Nike Run London: North vs South event in 2006. I knew she was behind me, as the crowd cheered her all the way around the course in Hyde Park. Might have been my fastest 10km ever.

She was 6 months pregnant at the time.

Your achievement is somewhat downgraded if she wasn’t pregnant before she set off….

PeterT · Dec 2, 2024

Mine are all local league cricket related. If it was a belting wicket I’d be out for 0. If it was nightmare batting conditions, I’d dig in and get a decent score. A few examples but one game in Uckfield I got a 50, we barely made 100 and no one else got double figures. I then took 2 blinding catches, rare for me, and we won by about 10 runs. Man of the match by a country mile and it cost me a few jugs afterwards!

Cordwainer · Dec 2, 2024

Scoring a cracking bottom corner goal from just inside the box on the Dripping Pan pitch at a kids birthday party, parents v parents game. Bruno was there with his son but sadly declined to take part…can’t think why.

Eeyore · Dec 2, 2024

hans kraay fan club said:
Unfortunately, and I hate to break this to you, all these years later...

but that is FIVE runs.

studio150 said:
Cricket

I really love playing and watching cricket, but other than being able to block and not hit the ball off the square I was always 11th or 12th out of 11 picked for the school team.

However in away match at Hove Grammar School, I hit a six off the last ball of our innings.

I say 6, but I basically hit the ball back to the bowler, but got called for a run anyway, I should have been run out by a country mile, but the bowler throw the ball, which missed the stumps. We completed a second run, before the ball went over the boundary, to gain 4 over throws and in the score book it went down as a 6.

I wish to challenge the Rt Hon member for Chandlers Ford.

It is six runs

@studio150 states 'We completed a second run, before the ball went over the boundary' Thus six runs is the award.

One Teddy Maybank · Dec 2, 2024

Football
- Played against Scotland and Wales for South East England Boys Clubs.
- Non-playing sub vs Chelsea in a friendly (when they were sh!t)

Badminton
- Went undefeated for 2 years in men’s doubles in the Worthing combi league (basically I had a good partner)
Edit - I actually I only lost one with my mixed partner as well, perhaps I was okay..

Golf
- waved Ewan Murray through

Basketball
- was a full kit w******, when Thunder got short of players in a behind doors friendly game….(thankfully, never got the call, I’m crap at basketball).

Stumpy Tim · Dec 2, 2024

Brovion said:
Playing in the first REMF game.

Scoring the first goal in the first REMF game

studio150 · Dec 2, 2024

Eeyore said:
I wish to challenge the Rt Hon member for Chandlers Ford.

It is six runs

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@studio150 states 'We completed a second run, before the ball went over the boundary' Thus six runs is the award.

As much as it pains me to say so, I believe that @hans kraay fan club is correct, as it read as the extra (overthrows) count from when the fielder throws the ball, and not from when it crosses the boundary.

So only the run in progress and the extra four count, so five.

Maybe we need a You Are the Umpire thread

Pogue Mahone · Dec 2, 2024

I scored my one and only century for Little Shelford against Great Shelford in the Cambridgeshire League back in the 1980s. 106 not out. We won.

In 2012 I cycled from Lands End to John O’Groats. 976 miles in ten days, raising over £3000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. I wept on arrival in the frozen north.

Then, in 2014, I cycled L’étape du Tour - Pau to Hautacam, 106 miles with huge climbs including the Tourmalet. This was the hardest 8 and a half hours I have experienced. I wept at the finish.

Eeyore · Dec 2, 2024

studio150 said:
As much as it pains me to say so, I believe that @hans kraay fan club is correct, as it read as the extra (overthrows) count from when the fielder throws the ball, and not from when it crosses the boundary.

So only the run in progress and the extra four count, so five.

Maybe we need a You Are the Umpire thread

I have referred it upstairs (to a senior Sussex umpire)

How many runs had you completed (or completed + crossed) at the point of the throw ?

Audax · Dec 2, 2024

In a former life (it was that long ago) I used to play a lot of indoor cricket in Australia (it's a little different from the indoor I've seen over here, including a full competition ladder all the way up to national competition). Got myself to the point where I was invited to training sessions with the ACT team ... then promptly did my back in (slipped disc lower back) playing a completely innocuous mid-week local match. Not long after, before I was able to start playing again, I heard that one of my team mates from the level below state rep got picked; his stats were almost identical to mine.

Over here in the UK ... Probably the 6/29 off 10 overs I took in a local derby Laughton 2nds vs Ringmer 3rds back in 2011.

Or maybe this season when I got one over the Nutley opener who'd torn us apart at theirs in the first game of the season in the return fixture. That felt darn good, even if it was the only wicket I got that day it was the key one that helped us to a rare win.

One Teddy Maybank · Dec 2, 2024

Lenny Rider said:
Having been press ganged into running an Under 7‘s team in 2001, I ended up taking the squad right the way through to under 16’s, with a little bit of success, but most of all having fun and helping develop the lads from kids into young adults, I was then asked to be Worthing FC’s Under 18 manager which I did for 5 years, culminating in getting to the Third Round Proper of the F A Youth Cup, we eventually went out to Middlesborough in front over a thousand supporters at Woodside Road.

For me it wasn’t just about the football, it was about the boys development, far more important than any medals or cups was when one of my lads who we signed when he’d previously been knocking around with a bad crowd and his parents effectively begged us to take him on, told me when he was working on my new patio at home “Harty if it wasn’t for you I’d have gone to prison”

And your Worthing team beat our Horsham team twice in the Middlesbrough season…

Still, given we only had 3 players, a month before the season started, that was a good achievement as well to avoid finishing bottom and reach a cup final….

Cheshire Cat · Dec 2, 2024

I still have the medal I won for coming second in some cub scout football tournament sometime around 1970ish . It was presented by a Brighton player who I had never heard of and still have no recollection who he was.

Being dropped for the final of a cricket 20-over weekday evening competition after having ~~starred~~ played in all the previous rounds (not remotely bitter 35 years later - honest)

Eeyore · Dec 2, 2024

studio150 said:
As much as it pains me to say so, I believe that @hans kraay fan club is correct, as it read as the extra (overthrows) count from when the fielder throws the ball, and not from when it crosses the boundary.

So only the run in progress and the extra four count, so five.

Maybe we need a You Are the Umpire thread

I'm afraid it looks like you have lost your extra run. @hans kraay fan club is correct. I did my best to get it back for you

Swimboy64 · Dec 2, 2024

1980 Sussex U19 Rugby Champions
Brighton colts v Worthing Colts
Played for Brighton as a 16year old and was playing up into an older age group
That was my best team moment
Individual-
Coniston end to end 5.25mile swim(3 successful swims)
Jubilee river 10k swim
Got some big swims next year

lawros left foot · Dec 2, 2024

In 1979-82 i served on HMS Rothesay, a frigate with about 240 crew.
We spent a fair bit of time in Gibraltar, and the ships football team was pretty good for a ship that size, getting through to the Small ships cup final on one occasion.
2 players had, had trials for pro clubs, 1 had been offered a contract by Leicester, but joined the Navy instead

.

We played Gibraltars National team, they weren’t recognised by FIFA then, and as such, didn’t play international matches.

We only lost 3-1, (I think, it could have been 4-1) and I scored our goal .

So, I have scored a goal against an international team.

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