other sports

[DebW]

My current sports:
hiking and backpacking
cycling (road)
canoeing and kayaking (mostly flatwater these days)
snowshoeing
cross-country skiing (mostly backcountry)

Previous sports:
canoeing and kayaking (class IV whitewater)
rock and ice climbing (never very good at this)
softball (center fielder)
swimming
running
triathlons (just a few 20 years ago)

Maybe it doesn't count as a sport, but I spend a lot of time maintaining hiking trails. Sawing through blowdowns by hand is good exercise. So is carrying bog bridge material on your shoulder for half a mile.

[withm]

Chalk up another (sea) kayaker, and north Atlantic wreck diver. Talk about 3 equipment intensive sports! Need a huge car to hold dive gear in the way back, boat on the roof, and bike on the back. LOL.

[uk elephant]

I also would like to think of myself as a rock climber, but for the past 5 years, have done very little of it living in some of the flattest parts of the world. Maybe one day I'll get back to mountains and can do more climbing again. I also hike mountains when I can (Scotland this easter with Bikeless in WI and respective hubbies) and cross country ski in the winter (back country of course). In my younger days I also did figure skating and some roller blading. Would love to do more of all those things, but how to find the time and money?!

[Kimmyt]

Rock Climber here. Skiier in the winter.

The problem is trying to figure out what I'm going to do on weekends, climb or ride.

Climbing usually wins, but for after work, cycling is the key (though I figured that the trail I ride on once in a while runs right past my rock gym... which means I can get two type of training in one night!! Score!)


k.

[SJCzar]

Lots of skiing in the winter. Started snowboarding late this season and I am loving it, so my skiis probably won't get much use next year.

I plan on trying wakeboarding this summer. I figure that can be my snowboarding fix for the summer. It will also ensure more quality family time with my teenage daughter... since she's really anxious to give it a try as well. My hubby loves to get us up to the cottage so he can pilot the boat for us.

[Trek420]

uk elephant "I also would like to think of myself as a rock climber, but for the past 5 years, have done very little of it living in some of the flattest parts of the world. Maybe one day I'll get back to mountains and can do more climbing again."

UK's brother is quite the climber. Here's his 2 seconds of fame.

Now this broadcast is in Norwegian and you do need a high speed connection but if you use the scroll button you can move through the program directily to that section.

So if you don't have high speed internet of even if you do the contest starts at 10:57 seconds into the news and Bjern (my nephew, the handsome red haired young man) is at 12:12 seconds

There also are some women climbers and it's incredible what they do. In this he's competing in the Norwegian national climbing cup. It was on national tv in the Sunday Sports Review, archived on the Internet at

http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/202387

It's all in Norwegian, of course, but you'll see when they get to the interview with the siblings who won (you'll see them climbing a tree, then walking along as they're interviewed). Right after that they show some of the contest and Bjørn is the first close-up at 12:12 into the broadcast about.

[lph]

This is funny. I was thinking of going to see the competition, not least join the party afterwards, but I had a pretty bad cold so I just forgot all about it. I heard it was a great show, and I've read about the results - but somehow never get around to actually watching any of the footage shot until now, when the link gets posted on a BIKE forum

[Trek420]

Small world, isn't it?

[Quillfred]

That's very cool. It's nice to see competitions where other sports are valued. What a cutie.

I wonder what the lads in the fast boat were up to? Brrr.

Q