Paintball!

Todays exercise was Paintballing. The most fun and most painful day so far.

Why did people seem so fond of shooting me in the arse? I'd show you the bruises but I'm not pulling my jeans down and taking a photo of my bum. I do have bruises in other places too.

It was really hard work. there was a lot of running croutching and so on but it was much harder than it would usually be because of the body armour. I was joking on facebook about wearing armour but it turned out women have to to protect their boobies. It is really heavy and thick and today was a warm sunny day and it made me so hot. Really, I was sweating buckets. very hard work.

I put my hr monitor on and I worked off 1800 cals throughout the day and the highest my heart rate got was 178.

I don't believe the masks are really for protection. I think they are to preserve peoples anonymity and prevent revenge attacks. I was furious after somone shot my wrist after I was out and was holding my gun up as you are supposed to when you're out and was shouting 'I'm out you've got me' so they wouldn't shoot me again. It got me right on the wrist bone and knocked the gun out of my hand and was increadably painful. Still hurts now. At that point if I had have known who did it I would have hunted him down and shot him in the back of the head at close range.

That man needs to aprieciate the identity hiding mask.

I didn't do bad. I was still in the game and hadn't been shot in 2 of the games. I was quite suprised both times that happened as the first time I was quite near the opposite end where the other teams base was and saw one of my team go running for their flag (to win the game we had to get the other teams flag and get it back to our base) so just started shooting loads at where quite a few of the other team were to distract them. How on earth they didn't take me out I don't know.

The second time I was in until the end the aim was to collect 3 flags that were around the area and get them back to our base (both teams going for the first 3 flags) Suddenly someone shouted that we had all 3 flags so everyone back to base to protect them. I saw all these bodys emerging and running back to the base so I thought 'what the hell, just stand up and run' so I did and was waiting to feel the balls hitting my back but they didn't. I made it back to the base and sat there with gun at the ready until the whistle blew.

on all the others I lasted until almost the end and kept being suprised by finding my friends already there when I was out and went to the dead zone. Though I'm not sure how much was down to cowardice and me being curled up in a ball behind a baracade hahaha.

There were a lot of kids there and when the group of men left at lunch time we were even more outnumbered by kids but one of the marshalls told us that after they would ditch the kids and let the 4 of us have a game on our own.

So when that game was over they took everyone else (mainly kids and a few adults) back for a break and left us four and one marshal for our last game. We started as 2 teams of 2 and he said start on the first whistle, on the second whistle it is every man for himself and we are not out when shot but when we run out of ammo.

I was more scared of that game than any of the others. I couldn't believe the others were so keen. It sounded like it was going to hurt a lot. It was quite funny though. As soon as the whistle went I ran as far forward as I thought I safely could and then croutched down behind a baracade. Then I heard someone shout 'WHERE'S HELEN?' I thought 'they don't know where I am. Thank God' and just kept popping up and shooting people. I could hear the marshall laughing. I shot Matt several times as he was stood up in full view wondering aimlessly. Turns out his visor was completely covered in paint.

Then I shot Ann and she yelped and jumped... and then turned round to see where it had come from. I thought 'SHIT!'

She walked towards me firing her gun terminator like. I then discovered my gun was blocked and wouldn't fire. I shouted at Ann that my gun wasn't working and not to shoot me while I sort it. Bless her she did, she stopped and waited. I couldn't believe it, I doubt anyone else would have.

I sorted the gun and then thought, she's stood there with her gun pointing at me and is pretty close. it's going to hurt. So I didn't tell her my gun was fixed. Like the wuss I am I jumped up and ran away shouting 'don't shoot me, it'll hurt' Ann shouted 'is your gun working?' I said 'eerrrm' as I ran further and then turned round and fired my gun and said 'yes!'

We were quite near the marshal at that point and when I was running away pleading with Ann not to shoot me he was absolutely pissing himself laughing.

Afterwards someone mentioned that there had never been a second whistle and the marshal said 'the consept of teams went out the window in about the first 30 seconds'

It was fun but don't think I would be in too much of a hurry to do it again unless it was for a birthday or something. It does hurt. Though it did make me laugh a lot when as we were driving away mid conversation Matt said 'yeah, it was going quite well but then I ran into a tree and got shot in the face'

I forgot to say - my team won every game except one!