Maybe some are, maybe some aren't

As I alluded to in my previous post, I was aching on Saturday. That was because I attended the 2nd annual Essentis (that will be the company I work for) sports day on Thursday. Unfortunately, I missed last year's event because I was in Toronto, and the sports day there wasn't really anything of the sort.

We were split into 4 teams, or "schools"....allegedly randomly but you can never be quite sure. I was in team Hogwarts, and, to prevent, or at least lessen the number of, any catcalls from spectators who are of course jealous of my abilities, I made a promise to just be a team member and try not to be my normal competitive self. So much so that, whereas ordinarily I would have been first up to volunteer, I turned down the captaincy of the team. Won't happen next year though (well, the captaincy turning down, I am still going to try and keep any competitiveness to a minimum from now.....we'll see how that goes).

The events we had were (and those I participated in are in bold)...

Rounders, Dodgeball, Tug 'o War, Bean Bag Race, Welly Throwing, Sack Race, Football Dribble, Egg and Spoon Race and Three Legged Race.

I think we had a nice combination of jokey games and team sports. I couldn't not be involved at all with the planning etc. so when I was asked to be a referee I jumped at the chance.....mainly as it allowed me to tell people what to do with no recriminations, so long as I was fair about it.

As it turns out, the teams were particularly fair and kept most people interested until the end. Unfortunately (for me), my team didn't win. In fact, four members of last years winning team won again. But that was OK. I had a pretty successful day personally as our team won our rounders and tug 'o war games, and I won the football dribble race too. I think most people had a good time. I think it is good to have these kinds of events where a lot of the company can go and interract with each other, rather than just in their own teams. We were lucky with the weather too as it was mostly sunny all day....which is good as some people were worried we'd have to come up with some indoor games!

Here are some pictures: -






Unfortunately my camera ran out of battery halfway through the day so I have no tug 'o war or dodgeball pictures.

Must remember to stretch properly next year as I was still aching on Monday....or maybe I am just getting old. I didn't actually think I did that much, but I guess it was the rounders, and also the unofficial frisbee football (like football, two goals, but with a frisbee, and you can't move once you've caught the frisbee) that probably took it out of me.

I also had to give up the trophy (we only have one) that I won at the pool tournament.....I was sad.

One other thing to note is that we were drinking from about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and so, when the bar shut at 11, we thought it would be a good idea to continue into town. Now that's fine, but I'm not sure nine of us flagging down some guy in a transit van in the car park and getting him to drive us into town, in the back of his van, was necessarily our best bit of thinking. It's not like town was miles away, about 10 minutes maybe, and I'm sure he took some kind of scenic route (not that you can tell when you are in the back of a van, singing football songs and attempting to avoid the panes of glass that are on the floor). 3am we got home.