re: Let's hear about your best athletic performance.

Qualified for the Ironman Triathlon by winning age group in a qualifying race.
Ranked 12th in the world for 2500 meter Concept2 erg rowing
All-State in swimming a co-state record holder 400 fee relay
Did 60 pushups in :48 seconds.
Ran 7 miles in 103 degree/ 92% humidity (pretty stupid, actually)

I had an out of my my mind day of track with times I never touched again.

18’ long jump
10.9 split on the sprint relay (got the stick 20 meters back and caught him at the finish line.)
11.5 100 (not my best but enough to win. )
54 second 400 on the mile relay.

None of those are world beaters and I never hit those most of those times again but I just had an “on” day and I (or was on a relay team with that) scored 66 points in a meet.

This was 2A track in the 90s.

As a 12 year old 7th grader as part of the presidential physical fitness awards program back then, I ran the 2 mile run in 10 minutes and 50 seconds. I had been running about 8 miles on many nights in training the spring and summer as a 6th grader preparing for Jr High football.

As a 10 grader in high school, we played Selma. Their senior running back Sam Dejarnette (who ran for over 1500 yards that year, and went on to play at Auburn and then Southern Miss), returned the opening kickoff running towards a sideline and then made a cutback right towards me and I made a textbook tackle stopping him dead in his tracks.

In my freshman year in college at Auburn, there were some Karate tryouts I passed by. My buddies and I wanted to "try out" since there were a lot of girls watching. The black belt instructor had everone in a line, and one at a time was abusing all of the people trying out using some kind of Judo moves or something, slamming people into mats. Anyways, I was pretty good wrestler throughout Jr. High and High School. I noticed he was charging everone and leading with his left arm to grab them. He ran right into one of my favorite moves called the "Fireman's Carry". I shot into that move and was twirling him around like a WWE wrestler, right before I slammed his arse down hard as payback for all of the people he had abused before me.

Double

Won silver in collegiate nationals in a very competitive weight class. club sport but was something I'd busted arse for

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Dodging bullets in Nam

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You win sir. Thanks for making it back home so you could type those words and this also goes out to our brothers and sisters that did the same over in the sandbox.

As for me, won a few Golden Gloves fights and got a black belt in BJJ.

Triple double in county bball tournament (32 points); 21 tackles, 2 forced fumbles, 1 for a TD, and 42 YFG.

It was the championship game of a soccer tournament when I was about 12. We went to breakfast before the game and another dad was giving my dad shite about letting me eat chocolate chip pancakes before the game. Ended up scoring 4 goals including a diving header that might have been the best goal I ever scored.

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I scored four touchdowns for the Polk Panthers in the 1966 Chicago city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School.

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Bubba “Spare Tire” Dixon still isn’t over that.

I drained a jumper from about 13 or 14 feet out from the side in high school boys and girls club basketball.

It was a legit game where they kept score, etc. There was a league of like ten teams we were in.