AARGH!!! Of course you're an athlete. Crazy boys!

I used to get into arguments with DH about what is or is not "athletic" or a "sport". For example billiards or car racing. While I could do neither well, I would argue that these are not athletic. (Of course, I am sure both require tremendous eye hand coordination and reflexes, and car racing may even involve some endurance. But you get the point.) Anyway our arguments used to come down to anything that was a ball sport was a "sport" and thus, the person an athlete - as opposed to things I did at the time (hiking, climbing mountains) as being endurance based things that were less "athletic".

Of course now that we both cycle, he sort of sees my point and I don't think we have had one of those arguments in years!