Your greatest personal sporting achievement

[Artaxerxes]

By the end of school year I was allowed to go and sit besides the football field rather than stand up and lean on the goalpost waving the attacker to go ahead and punt the ball into the goal as it wasn’t my problem.

 

[Humberto]

Threw a javelin quite well the one and only time I had a go. 2nd in a class of 30 odd.

Was meant to run the 200m for my house on school sports day after winning a qualifier but bunked off like the stoner I was.

 

[girasol]

Threw a javelin quite well the one and only time I had a go. 2nd in a class of 30 odd.

Was meant to run the 200m for my house on school sports day after winning a qualifier but bunked off like the stoner I was.

My son was the fastest at 800m in sports day at his school, he was 13 or 14 I think. but also got 'distracted' by extra-curricular activities and didn't want to join an athletics club... Shame, until then I'd actively encouraged him to be active and he really was for a few years.

 

[butcher]

Off to fight in the World Canne de Combat Championships in Prague at the weekend, with both my boys who are also fighting, 20 years after my first WCs in the sport

 

[butcher]

FWIW we all came back with medals, and number 1 son is World Bronze medalist.

 

[imposs1904]

Equalled my best of 7 180s in one day. Couldn't get that bastard 8th 180.

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Am a black belt at dominoes.

 

[Boo Radley75]

In my 20s I was a sub 45 minute 10K runner. Got narrowly beaten in the Southend 10K by the fastest over 65 year old man.

 

[Petcha]

I got red carded in a rugby match when I was 5. Within five minutes of kick off. I was a lock, the ref spotted me kicking the hooker in the scrum, in mitigation that little shit had just taken out my mate off the play.

Still proud of this.

 

[StoneRoad]

Not, definitely not, a sporting person - at any age.

However, the winter before I went to secondary school I had a bout of pneumonia that was bad enough for a trip to hospital and quite a lot of time off school. As a result of still having painful lungs when running in cold weather I didn't appreciate "cross-country" - especially when I didn't get picked for a team sport & therefore sent off on running, which was most times, tbh, I wasn't that popular as a pick since I was pretty crap at most sports.
The best experience I had was halving my standing one afternoon [we "took a number" as we were sent off, at about 30 second intervals and handed it back on our return]. I got a very rare well done for that and a nice hot shower ...
The teacher would check we stuck to the full route, by parking up to watch us passing a couple of points and there was also a spying nosy parker of a neighbour that would tell them if anyone took the "short cut home" !

As an adult, I took up air pistol and air rifle for a few years, and managed some very decent groupings and progressed up the leader table most seasons. Many years later I had an evening with live ammo on an army range, the range officer said that, for in-experienced bods like us, a grouping smaller than a spread out hand would be very good - I managed to get my two closest holes to be less than a couple of inches apart, and the rest a little wider than my palm {and I've got quite small hands}

 

[clicker]

I broke my arm doing the high jump and didn't have to do pe again for months.

 

[Smangus]

Out for a golden duck in my first ever cricket match at primary school. Traumatised, I never played cricket again Good job too , it's boring as fuck.

 

[Numbers]

I played for Ireland in an Under 11 international football tournament, boxed at national level, captained the school hurling and football teams.

But nothing comes close to being the 1st ever Urban75 official goalkeeper

 

[imposs1904]

Finally joined a Darts League 8 weeks ago at the grand old age of 52. (Spotted a post in a local Facebook group about a team in the lowest division who were short of players, and it was already a couple of weeks into the season.)

We just finished the league part of the season, and I finished with the highest individual points tally out of 43 players. My ego's temporarily gone through the roof but, in fairness to myself, I've been suffering from dartitis last couple of years, and I never thought I'd dredge up the bottle to actually join a team.

. . . what do you mean Darts isn't a sport?

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*Trigger Warning: An overdose of unashamed humblebragging.

After finishing top of the stats of Division 4 of my local Darts League in the Spring season, I just finished top again for the Fall (Autumn) season. This was definitely the better achievement of the two 'cos the Fall season is the longer season, my bastard Dartitis really kicked in this season so I had more to struggle with it for weeks on end, and there were better players in the division this Fall season.

 

[BassJunkie]

About 20 years ago my brother had the daft idea of going paintballing for his birthday. So, me, him and a bunch of our mates, all hippies, turned up. To be faced with our competition -

"Professional" paintballers. By which I mean they were all wearing camouflage and each owned their own paint gun. They were clearly regulars.

None of us had ever gone paintballing before.

Our preparation was to stumble out of the car, smoke a couple of joints, and then rent the gear.

We Fucking Beat Them! We Stole Their Flag! I like to think the state of us when winning humiliated them all the more.