My usual day of fun would be relaxing in a spa with friends, shopping or having my hair done. But when my team manager at Adrian Flux offered us a day out Karting I just couldn't resist, and the best thing of all was that it was mostly paid for by the company....how nice is that!!

We arrived at the track and it was pouring with rain, I wasn't keen to be honest as didn't want to get soaked and hoped secretly that they would call it off. But I'm glad they didn't as I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!

We did a few practice laps and we were placed in our teams. There were 7 teams with two people in each. I was team 5 and started off in second place. At first I was a bit scared as the track was so wet from the rain and I was sliding all over the place but after a few laps I got the hang of it and whizzed around the track!! I was loving it so much that I didn't care that my face was covered in mud and my mascara had run and quite frankly I looked a mess :- ) It was then time to swap with my team mate so he could have a go ( I didn't want to give the kart to him but I had to share I suppose, after all the purpose of the day out was team building!!)

The checkered flag was in sight and the race came to an end. I checked the leader board to see if I was last, and to my complete amazement............we won!!!! Team 5 was victorious!!

We took our position on the 1st placement podium and was awarded our trophy.

I can now honestly say that Go-karting is my ideal fun day out - bring on the paintballing!!