June Challenge: 24. First Sport

24. First Sport I have spoken a little about my sporting past with my first love blog post but I shall expand a little bit on this now. When I was younger in primary school, I loved running and I was very good at it- I was fast and that was something that I was proud of. When you're in primary school, there are always children running around and this makes you so fast that you don't even realise you're sort of training yourself in a sport. The only time that I realised running could be classed as a real sport was when I was selected to take part in a sporting competition against other schools at our leisure centre. Now I know you're probably thinking, why is that such a big deal? It wasn't that much of a big deal in itself as being a sporting competition, the big deal came when they announced who was being involved with the sporting competition. That day I got to meet Colin Jackson- now if you're not from the UK or you don't know anything about sport, I will give you a big of background information about Colin Jackson.

Colin Jackson is a Welsh former sprinter and hurdler who specialised in 110 metre hurdles. He won the Olympic silver medal and became the World Champion 3 times so he was quite a big sporting person, especially back when I was younger- pre 2000. He now does a lot of presenting and commentating for sporting competitions including the Olympics.

It was quite the experience getting to meet him and I can always remember that day with immense pride that I was chosen from all the children in my school to compete. I also have a signed t-shirt somewhere in the house. I have no idea where but it is here somewhere!