Athletics

The time - Senior year of High School, the Fall of 1973
The place - Manchester Central High School
The events/circumstances - I joined/got involved with the Cross-Country team

In the midst of sorting through the debris that has been left in my room since I moved out of my parent's place in 1977 or so, I came across my certificate of achievement from the awards ceremony at Central. I was given a varsity letter for Cross-Country.

FOr those of you who have met me, this may come as a shock, but let me resolve your fears. I did not run.

At least, I don't think I ran. I have no memory of having run cross-country.

Then again, I only have one memory of having attended a meet - and that is a vague standing in a park holding a clipboard while the runners went by.

Nothing else. Who was the coach? His name is scrawled on the certificate, but otherwise I would not know. I remember one of the runners, sort of - but more for his having been somebody I knew from chess and explorer scouts (yes, I was, and a boy scout, too!) than from running.

Varsity letter. *snort* I SHOULD have gotten one for managing (helping, at least) the soccer team in junior year, at NMH! But I was tossed before the very end of the season.
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I also have certificates for baseball and soccer from Derryfield, from 7th - 9th grades. I was good enough in soccer to start on the 9th grade team. THen again, we had to borrow some 8th grade boys to make up a whole team. But on the OTHER other hand, we went undefeated and unscored upon that season...

Not that I remember that, either.

Josh Shaine - JOCK!

*giggles*

Road Rally

One of the more enjoyasble competetive activities I have ever engaged in was Road Rallying. As a member of an Explorer Post (the Data Processing Post, where I learned how to do punch cards and learned COBOL!), we competed with other explorer posts in a variety of activities. Road Rally was one of them

Ours were safety road rallies - you had to get to each stop within a certain window - the more behind OR ahead you got there, the more points you lost. There were directions from stop to stop, based on odometer settings and landmarks.

If you went too far off course and hurried back, your odometer would show that you had been off-course - and that was a penalty, too.

My partner and I won a trophy at one of the meets.

I wonder who it was.