Quote Originally Posted by maillotpois View Post
They put me into remedial PE when I was in elementary school. That's back when they had funding for that sort of thing.

Eye-hand coordination, ball sports, not my thing. I'd ride my horse all day and hike through the woods. But because they put me in a "special" program I always believed I wasn't an athlete.

Until I bought a bike 6 years ago.
Can't really say I was in remedial PE - but I've always been the smallest - so as far as school and organized sports go I certainly was never the one picked first (or second or third...) and ball sports have never exactly been my forte. I was always the one who could climb all of the way up the rope, do the most chin ups and I could always impress the bigger girls by leg pressing the whole weight stack.... (to tell the truth I don't think I could do that anymore). Cycling has always been ideal for me since endurance is my strong suit, but few teen sports are based around it, except perhaps swimming and cross country. By the time I was in high school I was doing long rides - I had a favorite 70 mile loop, but most other teenagers don't exactly have an understanding or much of an appreciation for it. Mostly I got asked what's wrong with your hands because I had bike glove tan lines. I certainly never though of myself as an athelete until very recently when I took up racing and found that I'm not half bad.