Originally Posted by pdurrant
Does it count if you do the same dumb thing for four years in a row?
I hated doing sports at school, but we had a yearly sports day, and everyone had to do something.
I always put down for the steeplechase, as then I didn't need to do anything until sports day itself - no heats for the steeplechase - and that way I thought, avoided it as much as possible. I certainly tried to think about it as little as possible.
It wasn't until a couple of years later that I finally twigged what I had been doing wrong.
I'm sure you've all seen it.
Yes, what I /should/ have done was put myself down for (say) the discus and get quickly eliminated in the first heat, way before sports day. Doh!
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