Pre-Midlands bowling night

by Rob Egan

Beers flowed, challenges were made, and pins fell over as 26 of Kenilworth Masters swimmers, friends and family enjoyed a Saturday evening at Leamington's Mega bowl.

Billed as one of the biggest nights of the club's social year, the morale boosting event on the weekend ahead of the Midlands Championships didn't disappoint. Swimmers had their training regime clearly in mind as they downed copious pints of high carb isotonic 'aiming juice', consumption of which told in the bowling scores as performances first improved and then declined with mounting alcohol.

High Stakes
A keen competitive spirit built amongst the team as Julia recorded swimming challenges to be settled at the forthcoming gala. With more than just pride stake, wine, chocolate and babysitting sit to be won by wining challengers, and cross-dressing forfeits sit to be lost.

Prizes
With an impressive 171 in the first round, Sandy scooped the bowling prize for the highest aggregate score for the second year running despite some blatant second round show-boating. However, Rachel failed to retain her 'bowling flop' moniker, being roundly beaten to the wooden spoon by Joy.

An impressive number of bowlers survived the trip across town to the Fox, and tales of narrowly missed strikes and imprudently entered challenges flowed.

The evening ended with moral dilemma. Should a man wearing a ladies swimming costume to a training session also wear drag shorts?.

See all the photos of the night here