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

[Bodian]

Mine is a sort of reverse achievement. Played quite a bit at work - 5-10 a side, however many turned up basically, with occasional 'competitive' matches against other organisations / works teams. I never got substituted in these. Until...

One match we played some youngsters, and they were better and quicker than us. I was playing right wing, but spent nearly all my time in our half / penalty area helping out the right back because we were being repeatedly attacked on that side of the pitch - basically double-defending. The captain took me off at half-time on the basis that I 'wasn't getting forward enough'. I muttered that I hadn't really had a chance to.

Five minutes into the second-half we were 2-0 down. Both goals coming down our right.

Although we lost, I felt quite pleased that my absence had been felt quite so much!

 

[Invicta]

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Oh I did that ! Filled a summer in the early eighties !

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

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.

It would have been far easier to go downhill from John O’Groats.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Technically, my BQ time was also 3:10, for the time I actually ran it. The cut-off time was 5:29 below that thought. I knew I would need a buffer.

They didn’t have the cut-off when I ran it. I think it came in a year or so after I ran.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Personal : Running a half marathon in 1hr 53 mins aged 45. I'd only been running 2 years after being a fat bar steward.

Team : Five a Side Champions in a really good five a side league in Bradford. It was so well respected a Bradford City player at the time presented us with the Trophy! We won loads as a team, but this was the highlight. That's as far as my football career went apart from some mid-level Sunday League stuff when I was older.... I do not pretend to be anything I'm not.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I won the obstacle race at sports day at St Nicholas' junior school, Portslade, in June 1969.

Against stiff opposition.

But I was a gnarly little fugger. Four and a half stone of relentless determination.

 

[anygivensunday]

Enthusaistic participant but didn't really hit many heights- more just random one off moments.

Top scorer in the school basketball team that won a regional tournament when I was about 15.
Scored a half century in a village cricket match around the same age. Did bugger all else for the rest of the season.
Getting off the sofa at 37 to run a half marathon.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Oh I did that ! Filled a summer in the early eighties !

At Withdean Stadium?

 

[BevBHA]

Winning the national cup with for Sussex FA, the final being against Northumberland played at Birmingham’s St. Andrew’s.

My first call up for England school boys.

Signing my scholarship at Crawley Town

 

[Berty23]

Loved this thread. It just shows that my kids who are now 14 14 and 16 may well have had their sporting moment. It reminds us all to take in every moment because that might be THE moment.

What a board of sporting legends we are.

 

[Invicta]

At Withdean Stadium?

Ah no, Tonbridge Sportsground !

 

[Bodian]

I won the obstacle race at sports day at St Nicholas' junior school, Portslade, in June 1969.

Against stiff opposition.

But I was a gnarly little fugger. Four and a half stone of relentless determination.

Oh yes, I'd forgotten my stunning victory in the wheelbarrow race at Scouts Sports Day. I was the barrow, and the guy holding my legs was so strong my hands hardly touched the ground - so I'm not sure I had a lot to do with it, but I'll take the credit.

 

[fork me]

What's your greatest personal sporting achievement or memory as a participant (not a spectator)?

This thread isn't aimed just at the "sporty" types, as every one of us has played sport in some capacity, whether we liked it or not and whether we excelled at it or not.

And whatever our level of sporting prowess or lack thereof, we probably all have a memory of a particular moment in our personal sporting history which has stayed etched in our memory as our own personal achievement or moment of glory.

It could be the day you weren't picked last when the sides were being selected for the class football game, or the day you managed to actually connect the bat with the ball rather than the usual being bowled out first ball during the cricket games lesson, or the one day you didnt finish in the last three in the school cross country run.

Anyway enough of my personal sporting highlights how about yours.....

Where I used to work many years ago (very early 90s) one guy looked after the coffee fund. I owed him £1 and he got a bit stroppy about it. So I threw a pound coin across the room, it hit the wall behind him, bounced off the wall onto his baldy head, and then off his head straight into the cup of tea he was holding.

Best shot I've ever made of anything. It was so good, that if I had a time machine and could go anywhere in history, I'd go back to that day and watch me do that shot!

 

[Berty23]

A memory in Facebook has flashed up that I think is perfect for this. 5 years ago so my daughter present was 9 and son 11. The other kids there ranged from 9 to 15.

 

[Questions]

St Marys marble champion in 1969…
Sussex Blue Ribbon Ten Pin bowler winner….150/160 average division 1979

 

[Albion my Albion]

Oh yes, I'd forgotten my stunning victory in the wheelbarrow race at Scouts Sports Day. I was the barrow, and the guy holding my legs was so strong my hands hardly touched the ground - so I'm not sure I had a lot to do with it, but I'll take the credit.

Robert Baden-Powell would have been proud to congratulate you on a "fine" victory. If you contributed you are a winner.

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Represented Lewes Tech in University college games in Sussex university in Table Football and Darts 1974 with Bill F from Warninglid. Played for first 11 for Brighton College and played for Chailey FC.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

In 1976 throwing the winning dart in the beer leg in an inter college match at Oxford.
We won the match in a whitewash too!

I also with my partner came second in the first university table football tournament

 

[Sea Cider]

1995 as a non-bowling tail ender for our village youth cricket team, I finally got to make my batting debut for the final 4 balls of yet another glorious loss. Two dot balls, a 4 and a single to finish. And so ended my cricketing career. What could have been...