School Sports DayAt some point in the distant past, someone at my school had built a large concrete tank behind the sheds and called it a swimming pool. Proud of this, they had a "Swimming Sports Day" in which everyone had to participate, even those who couldn't swim (they got to walk across the shallow end of the tank).
This would probably have been OK if the pool hadn't turned a deep opaque green the night before due to lack of maintainance. Even the school sports stars didn't want to go near the gloopy mess in the pool. We were practically pushed in. I'm sure some of the younger kids never surfaced again and the non-swimmers looked petrified.
Tell us your sports day horrors.
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chthonic, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 11:13)
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So out of my depthSports Day, I was about 14...
I was told by the PE teacher that he'd put me in one of the track events, despite having just come second at the javelin and thinking I could go home.
So there I am, 800 metres, and in the line up there were some of the bigger boys - sixth formers, oh dear I thought.
But no I just managed to keep up with them for the first lap, then one of them says to his pal "We're going a bit slow for an 800m race".
"Oh, I thought it was a 1600m race", as they suddenliy took off at what seemed to be a sprint.
At least there was only one lap left. They finished when I was only half way round. That half lap had to be the longest I'd ever run, as EVERBODY was looking at me, because I had lost by so much.
"Never mind" says the PE teacher when I eventually finished, trying not to cough up a kidney. "You've knocked about forty seconds off your previous time".
"Did you know the chap that won trains with Steve Cram?"
wandered off muttering about what bastards PE teachers are...
(, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 13:08, Reply)
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