Proud O moments...
Moderators: [nope] cartel, team nopesport
43 posts
• Page 3 of 3 • 1, 2, 3
proudest o moment has got to be winning world students relay, followed a close second by winning busa relay while running for cambridge with cath drew and julia bleasdale. is always best when no one else expects you to do it!
-
Rach - red
- Posts: 191
- Joined: Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:13 am
- Location: Sunny Sheffield
Mrs H. wrote:Watching a club junior relay team do well - especially when it contains one of my own children - such as JK and BOC 2000, BOC2002 - Has far eclipsed anything I have been personally involved in(not that that has amounted to much )
yeah those were good moments for me too - but nothing can beat my win at magilligan the day before the 2002 relays - i went out knowing that 4.8km seperated me from a good year or a bad year, and i don't think i've been so focused in all my life. everything fitted, everything worked, and i could even relax a bit on the last two legs (but ironically i got a fastest leg on the second last? i don't know how). The atmosphere was great, i even got shouted at by lester H on the run in for not trying hard enough.
Graythwaite has also benn quite good to me too.
-
rob f - yellow
- Posts: 2191
- Joined: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:14 pm
- Location: Manchester
Re: Proud O moments...
Supersaint wrote:pasta and cheese wrote:We all have individual moment of pride after a good result but what i'm talking about is a bit of team pride.
as P&C said, it's team pride, not individual pride.
Certainly one of my proudest moments was taking some primary kids to the British Schools Score champs. only the elder miss H. was mainstream. Those kids were brill. some of them were tubby most were unfit but they had real spirit. When some of them had completed "the yellow loop" and before they punched the finished and found they still had 20 minutes left they went back out and got a few more controls - such heroes. Both boys and girls teams got the bronze. I was so proud of them. Sadly the headmaster pulled the plug on the club soon after
-
Mrs H. - nope godmother
- Posts: 2034
- Joined: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:15 pm
- Location: Middle England
gg wrote:if i mention one of my proudest moments, rocky will probably delete it.........
yeah maybe i would! but perhaps il tell the story myself.....
jhi 01 was in the dream team of oleg, coombs and myself, in the individual our total time was 9 minutes faster than the english 1st team, duncan and oleg both won and i came a close second to speake. and oleg and preppie duly set me up with a handsom lead going onto last leg, i cant remember how big. i cruised round, not having a perfect run but nothing shocking either. with four controls to go i looked at what i had left, all the controls were in a straight line and there was no one else in sight (it was on the open dunes at pembrey).
but
third last was in a depression in the middle of a load of depressions. i dithered for a while, as you do, and just as i saw the control speake and gg rounded the corner of a thicket and saw me getting it. i legged it off to the penultimate, a reentrant on a ridge visible from the assembly. id just sprinted on a rough bearing and it was a 50/50 call as to whether to turn left or right. i got it wrong and speake and gg passed me within sight of the finish.
boringly my proudest o moment is also busa this year, to produce the run of your life in a race you really want is always special. also only the second time id ever won a relay, first being a boring interlopers team a couple of years ago.
-
rocky - [nope] cartel
- Posts: 2747
- Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:28 pm
- Location: SW
Watching a club junior relay team do well - especially when it contains one of my own children - such as JK and BOC 2000, BOC2002 - Has far eclipsed anything I have been personally involved in
I'd have to agree Mrs H., particularly if I can extend to other junior teams I've been involved in. Watching the Aire minis come in 2nd at the British last year none of the team ever having run a relay before and seeing the Aire team win the YBT were recent moments. Going back a bit further the best are probably seeing YHOA teams win the JIRCs in the early 90s and team managing the 1994 GB tour where the then juniors performed outstandingly to get both open and women's teams on to the podium in the Ungdomen's Tio-Mila at a time when we didn't expect those sorts of results (it was the first time a British team had run that race for some years), made all the better because they were such a fantastic crowd to be on tour with.
-
awk - god
- Posts: 3224
- Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:29 pm
- Location: Bradford
Re: Proud O moments...
Mrs H. wrote:
Certainly one of my proudest moments was taking some primary kids to the British Schools Score champs. only the elder miss H. was mainstream. Those kids were brill. some of them were tubby most were unfit but they had real spirit. When some of them had completed "the yellow loop" and before they punched the finished and found they still had 20 minutes left they went back out and got a few more controls - such heroes. Both boys and girls teams got the bronze. I was so proud of them. Sadly the headmaster pulled the plug on the club soon after
which score was this?
the year we won the British schools in watford was good - when the team won year 6 and the primary school was 3rd - forget the fact i won that was irrelevant in comparison with the two team medals - and travelling back afterwards with the other members (bar dan) of the team
-
rob f - yellow
- Posts: 2191
- Joined: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:14 pm
- Location: Manchester
Re: Proud O moments...
trebor wrote:which score was this?
The year after you left!
-
Mrs H. - nope godmother
- Posts: 2034
- Joined: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:15 pm
- Location: Middle England
Having taken many teams to schools events,I have had many proud moments, but often these are not so much to do with the team success but with the resolve of the kids. One example was a girl who volunteered to run in a mixed pair with a boy who lost his bottle at the last minute.
Another was an offspring who walked the night red at the P Palmers to make up a team, even though he had given up O. Another was the yr 5 girl whose pair was sick , who did her first solo run in a West Midlands Schools Champs and came 5th.
Finally just in case you think it's only girls, there was the only one of my school team to turn up at this years British Schools who was competing solo for the first time in Year 9 Boys who came 9th.
The pride is for them and their achievements. These kids don't win medals often but they get personal success and satisfaction.
Another was an offspring who walked the night red at the P Palmers to make up a team, even though he had given up O. Another was the yr 5 girl whose pair was sick , who did her first solo run in a West Midlands Schools Champs and came 5th.
Finally just in case you think it's only girls, there was the only one of my school team to turn up at this years British Schools who was competing solo for the first time in Year 9 Boys who came 9th.
The pride is for them and their achievements. These kids don't win medals often but they get personal success and satisfaction.
Diets and fitness are no good if you can't read the map.
-
HOCOLITE - addict
- Posts: 1274
- Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2004 8:42 pm
- Location: Down the Ag suppliers
In a way, I was "proud" of my mistake at the british relays on monday. I arrived quite late (no-one else about) and parked in the football pitch and was instructed to cross the stile at the top of the pitch and follow the tapes. So, I crossed the stile and the first tapes I saw were on a stile so I simply followed these tapes. These led steeply down the hill to the north. I ended up coming to a forest track after about 1km where the tapes suddenly ended. Turning left was a road so I went right and walked up a forest track but after 300m I saw runners crossing the track ahead so I realised this wasnt the route so I turned round, joined the road and walked down it -still no tapes! I pressed on for about 500m but still couldn't hear any commentry and was quite worried. I turned round and walked to where I saw the runners and started walking up the hill and I had to ask a little kid (who was in the middle of his run) where assembly was!Discovering it was on the top of the hill was ffrustrating. In the end, I'd walked about 4.5km and taken 50 mins to reach assembly.I think what happened was cars were meant to be parked on the forest track and i'd followed the tapes in reverse- away from assembly!!
- andy L
- red
- Posts: 188
- Joined: Sun Jan 11, 2004 5:42 pm
- Location: shef/nott
nice one andy!...
i bet that little guy u asked was having the run of his life or something(?) and u go and ask him where assembly is.
now that is a proud moment!
anyway well done for the rest of the weekend
i bet that little guy u asked was having the run of his life or something(?) and u go and ask him where assembly is.
now that is a proud moment!
anyway well done for the rest of the weekend
-
mat-d - light green
- Posts: 221
- Joined: Thu May 06, 2004 6:02 pm
- Location: Sheffield
awk wrote:... team managing the 1994 GB tour where the then juniors performed outstandingly to get both open and women's teams on to the podium in the Ungdomen's Tio-Mila at a time when we didn't expect those sorts of results (it was the first time a British team had run that race for some years), made all the better because they were such a fantastic crowd to be on tour with.
You say the nicest things.......
But, not quite as fantastic as running the first leg of said relay - first time I'd run with my own 20 watts and about 150 others
-
Lil' God'rs - orange
- Posts: 138
- Joined: Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:44 pm
- Location: The country retreat
But, not quite as fantastic as running the first leg of said relay - first time I'd run with my own 20 watts and about 150 others
I remember the high you were on when you got back. That race was one of the few times I have envied other orienteers!
-
awk - god
- Posts: 3224
- Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:29 pm
- Location: Bradford
43 posts
• Page 3 of 3 • 1, 2, 3
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 25 guests