Tommy Collison

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As someone for whom keeping healthy is rather important, I knew I needed to find a way of exercising. The problem is, I’m a picky little man.

I’m useless at running and it does bad things to my knees. Walking is boring because you never seem to be going anywhere. Rugby is just bad for so many reasons but since all the others got one reason I’d have to settle on the fact that I would get squished. Football is better than rugby because the aim of the game is not, in fact, to kill the opposing team members, but still involves running and some intricate footwork that fails me. I’m only just managing the left, right, repeat of walking, you see. Tennis, or so Wimbledon tells me, involves a lot of people hitting a ball, but also going ‘Nyyyyah!’ or ‘Urrrrgh!’ every time the ball connects with your racket. Also, it’s probably most famous for strawberries and cream, or French people making oaths. Racketball and Squash are the same really.

I could continue listing off sports but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. A really cool sport, despite it’s difficulty, is Athletics. Jumping through hoops or over bars or trying to see who can fling themselves the furthest.. it’s brilliant. Quite simply, pole vaulting for the win!

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So, today’s epic wantsies: to learn to polevault!

But yes, swimming is my favourite sport. It’s non-competitive, it loosens muscles and there’s no one trying to kill you :)