Sports, so many sports.

[The One That Got Away]

I find there are sooooooooo many sports which I love to do and dream of doing. Within these sports there are so many amazing communities. So how have you chosen yours ? What have you have been a part of? and what do you dream of doing?

I would love to do many more but I like to go a 100% at a chosen sport meaning its very hard to do more than 2 at a time. (currently kayaking and recently road cycling) But I want to do more skiing, mountain biking, climbing and the list goes on.

What holds me back from these is time, money and energy. Any advise on how you manage?
In case I sound arrogant I am very glad to be able to pursue sport thanks to a supportive family, born in a privileged country (UK) and decent enough health! Although injuries are a pain in the bum!!

 

[colly]

HA.

I read that as SPOTS.

Thought perhaps you were an acne clad youth.

 

[Dayvo]

Sport has been as an important part of my life as travelling (the two most important, actually - after, naturally, good health etc.).

Now the wrong side of 50 my sporting activities these days are cycling, golf, jogging and exercising, downhill skiing every few years or so, and a game of table tennis once in a blue moon.

In my younger years I played cricket (my no.1 sport), rugby, tennis, badminton, swimming, squash, Aussie Rules Football, cross country skiing.

Getting older makes you more sedate to a certain extent but how I managed to survive 20 years of playing rugby (prop) without serious injury, I've no idea.

 

[LarryDuff]

Played rugby for over 20 years at school and at club level. I didn't have anything to do during the summers so I took up cricket for 5 years and then gave it up for golf. I quit golf last year and started cycling, wish I had done that 10 years ago. I have also been playing a lot of tennis for the last 10 years.

 

[Milzy]

Run from 100m to Ultra Marathon. Road, trail, XC etc.

 

[PaulB]

I didn't look for a sport, one found me. I took running up to increase my fitness to enable me to play football for longer but then got more worried about being injured at football which would prevent my running. It was a drug I couldn't do without and got withdrawal symptoms when injured or ill and couldn't run. It was so addictive, me and my running mates were repulsed by any of our team-mates or rivals who were injured as I'm sure we had some psychological aversion to chatting to them in case we 'caught' their injury or were infected by their bad luck.

I retain my membership of my running club although the simplicity of the former days are long gone. It's all rules this and regulations that that's ruined the sport nowadays and the cost of races have become ridiculous. A 10K in a nearby town today for instance cost £20 to enter! Twenty quid to run six miles! They're paking the tiss. In my best days, our local races would be shunned if they were more than £5 to enter and the best ones were £2.

 

[classic33]

A 10K in a nearby town today for instance cost £20 to enter! Twenty quid to run six miles! They're paking the tiss. In my best days, our local races would be shunned if they were more than £5 to enter and the best ones were £2.

I was paying that in the late 80's. You're saying it got cheaper !!

 

[kedab]

i played football - i made it to county level, i was a really good goaly right up until the age of 12/13 when those that could, shot up in height and physicality and those that couldn't, stayed wee nippers for a year or two longer - it was clear i was never going to be tall enough or physical enough to make it at semi pro/pro level, so unlike many, i stopped chasing that dream quite young - i became a nifty left back/left mid but got fed up with fat men with malice kicking seven bells out of me once i reached fifteen and was being asked to play 'mens' football on a saturday - so i gave that up as well...ahhhh if only i was blessed with another 6 to 8 inches, i coulda been a contender