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Wednesday Aug 08, 2007

The challenge

I love sport. I became a journalist primarily to write about sport. It remains a constant source of pleasure to me that I can sit in an office and watch cricket, football, tennis, athletics, motor-racing and even darts all day without anyone batting an eyelid – because it's my job and they're paying me for it.

However, I've never been a sporty kind of girl in terms of participation.  I have happy memories of hiding in the music room at the age of 15 to avoid doing cross-country, and though I enjoyed kicking a ball around at break-time, I wasn't really the sort to take it seriously enough to join a proper team.

I'm also hideously clumsy. My knees and shins are battered and bruised with the evidence of my inability to walk around unscathed for a day.

All in all, I'm not exactly a lycra-and-trainers kind of woman, more a cake-and-Veronica-Mars kind of woman, and I'm the last person you'd expect to enter the Hydro Active Women's Challenge in Hyde Park on Sunday September 16th.

Posted by Carrie ( 10:59 AM )
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