Any active athletes here?

[atwaterville]

I used to rock climb outdoors but have reduced to indoor climbing gym more often than outdoors since I started my family. I ski in the Winters a few times each year but it's a challenge since due to the distance of a good snowy mountain. Aside from that, I go hiking in local hills whenever I feel like I need to do some cardio workout.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was an amateur boxer back in high school, and then I played soccer for my undergrad college. I still ride my bike and swim laps at the Y daily, but I wouldn't call myself an athlete these days, although I am pretty sure that I could still out ride, run, and swim most folks.

 

[LeafErikson]

I was an amateur boxer back in high school, and then I played soccer for my undergrad college. I still ride my bike and swim laps at the Y daily, but I wouldn't call myself an athlete these days, although I am pretty sure that I could still out ride, run, and swim most folks.

So what you're trying to tell me is that you're essentially a world-class, professional athlete in peak shape in the prime of his life.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

So what you're trying to tell me is that you're essentially a world-class, professional athlete in peak shape in the prime of his life.

Ha ha, well, lets just say that I would gladly get in the ring with Tyson for 20mil.

 

[LeafErikson]

Ha ha, well, lets just say that I would gladly get in the ring with Tyson for 20mil.

I would as well. I would first need to train for a marathon so that I could be fit enough to run for my life while in the ring with him.

 

[AreBee]

Active cyclist. I rode 1500 miles last year (hampered by a move from MD to LA). I had easy access to the C&O Canal towpath up in MD and hundreds of miles of decent rural roads. Down here, the roads are scary, no shoulder, big ditches. I ride the Tammany Trace (old railroad line). It's paved, so I use road bike tires on my gravel bike. I'm hoping to explore some roads a little further out with some cycle groups in the Spring.

Annually, I ride my age in years on my birthday, started when I was 60. Below from this past August, on the Canal at 63. Temps were in the mid-90's, so I carried a lot to drink.

When the weather is bad, I ride indoors on my Zwift Hub trainer. It's a game, like the 1st person shooter games but cycling. I can compete with others, or ride by myself or with my brother who lives in PA. Back in MD, I had to use this all winter long. Down here, only on rainy days. This was in my basement in MD, now in the garage.

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That's awesome! In 2020 I put in over 500 mountain bike miles and almost 60,000 feet of vertical climbing. I was down about 25 lbs. from where am now and at 51 I was in the best shape since I hit 40. We had some changes in my riding group in the last few years and I just kind of fell out of love with it. My wife and I became empty nesters around the same time and it was hard to leave her alone for five or six hours on a Sunday. I do miss it at times, but I really miss the way I felt and the energy I had.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I play pickup hockey regularly. Been playing since I was 7yrs old.

 

[Brendan]

If you can clench a puck, you can clench a pipe.