To be dreading the "Mums" race at sports day

[comelywench]

I hated all that competitive stuff the first time around. Now I will have my DC's hopes pinned on me too, poor critters.

Better get into training now I suppose.

Do they have a teachers race as well...?

VolAuVent - I'm a teacher, I refuse teachers' races as well as mothers' races.

I'm gutted I'm gonna miss the parents race again this year. First year I missed it as I was too busy nattering to other mothers and missed them call it, last year I had to leave early before they ran it, and this year I have a meeting at work I can't get out of.

Yes, I am that competitive what's so wrong with that?

ive never attended sport day,no excuses required.at work
but blimey ive laughed reading this thread
spikes. for that competitive edge.naturally

I'm seriously dreading this. Sports day is next week. As a warm up last week we had a village olympics which reception class invited parents to come along and take part in. Low points included:

• one mother sprinting so hard she vomited
• one broken hand
• one dad instead of running behind him, picking up his son and his chariot (hobby horse) and hissing at him to 'stick out your elbows darling'
• several alpha mums leaving their dc behind in a marathon they should have done together and their dc either sobbing over the line, alone and confused or falling and hurting themselves while mum was sprinting over the finishing line gloating and bowing and failing to notice

I dread to think how they'll improve on this. The children were 4 and 5 fgs.