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What Has Been Your Greatest Achievement(s) So Far In Life?

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SAU has been slowing down a tad lately ... either that or the mods have put the scare into members with starting threads :)

As the title says, what has been your greatest achievement(s) so far in life ... be it becoming a parent or study or other.

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Mine:

1st

Standing atop the podium (twice) for a silver medal in international competition, and singing along to the Australian national anthem. Took 3 years of training, travel, diets, prior competitions, blood, sweat and tears to get to that level and make the Australian team 3 times before retiring from competition. Nowdays I just coach, and I still get many small success stories from that.

2nd

Since retiring from sport, working hard at my studies and finishing with uni degrees, a secure job (this is my 10th year), and having two houses to show for it.

3rd

I believe: learning from your mistakes and rising from low moments in life, to come out on top a better and stronger person than before.

I've also had some great achievements with cars (see, it is car related in the end moderators) :P Built a CA18DET powered 1600; SR20 supercharged 200B; Rotary Bluebird; VG30BB turboed Honda CBR drag bike; GSXR race bike. My first success was rebuilding a 250 crossflow drag engine on my uncle's Cortina at the age of 17! I'll never forget that car.

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watching my kids been born and knowing i was apart of it i reckon is my greatest acheivment . also winning a 20 lap feature race at speedway and i was the only 6cyl in the field the rest were v8's and i started from 9th position was pretty cool

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watching my kids been born and knowing i was apart of it i reckon is my greatest acheivment . also winning a 20 lap feature race at speedway and i was the only 6cyl in the field the rest were v8's and i started from 9th position was pretty cool

Hmm, yes. I've had some racing achievements too. Nothing too exciting, but achievements for me nonetheless.

Qualifying 12th out of 24 bikes and grabbing 6th position into the first turn (my drag racing experience paid off). I screwed up a few laps later and finished 10th in the end, but that one corner is still talked about.

I hope to add parenthood to my achievements one day. :D

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As the title says, what has been your greatest achievement(s) so far in life ... be it becoming a parent or study or other.

I had a really wicked Farmers Union Iced Coffee about 2 hours ago. Matter of fact, I even got two for $5 at the local Caltex. I'm pretty stoked with that...

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I had a really wicked Farmers Union Iced Coffee about 2 hours ago. Matter of fact, I even got two for $5 at the local Caltex. I'm pretty stoked with that...

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Bahahahaha you're a classic Dohmar!!

Ok mine is sports.... was in the Australian Archery team a few years back (quite a few!) Still hold a couple of National records for target and field archery.

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Maybe you didn't catch the bulletin Ruby, but non-car-related posts like this are no longer acceptable on SA SAU.

I don't want to come off as a Nazi/ass, but if you want to have a chat about things like this (or your new tattoo/haircut/divorce/toys/job/girlfriend/etc etc) then take it to the Wasteland, one of the non-car-related sections of SAU, or one of the plethora of social networking sites/forums on the Internet.

Due to the large volume of complaints from members to me about bs/non-car-related posts from a host of different people, I have started to crack down and try to get SAU back to what it is supposed to be - a CAR forum.

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