Soccer 1:30:00 [3] 10.0 km (9:00 / km)
The annual tournament between the Bureau, CSIRO and Melbourne and Monash Unis - three 30-minute games on a small pitch (with small goals), 8-a-side (which I presume meant that the entire remaining staff of CSIRO were on the field) and unlimited interchanges.
I finished the morning session thinking I was going to pull out of this, but we didn't have a lot of players spare and I thought I'd at least go up, test myself out before the start and see how it went. The answer was fine - in fact it was my heaviest involvement yet - normally, as one of the team's, shall we say, less skilled players, I would spend a reasonable amount of time on the sidelines, but we couldn't afford that today and I ended up playing the entire 90 minutes, starting each game on the left wing and dropping back to be a defensive midfielder later on, with the main job being to close down space.
The personal highlight was very early on in the first game - the ball dropped for me 10 metres out with only the keeper to beat, and I was able to do the necessary (by no means a given). I did make it onto the scoresheet a few years ago but that time it was at the wrong end. From there on I filled my usual role of running around a lot, plugging gaps and hoping no-one noticed that I (usually) couldn't do very much with the ball once I got it.
We ended up taking out the competition again for the third straight year - won all three games, although we were a bit lucky in two of them. Feeling very drained by the end, perhaps a product of the early start.