Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
Maybe we should start a club, Emily....
The thing is, the sports I hated as a kid are not lifetime fitness actiities that require endurance. Although I struggled to learn to ride a bike (I was 9), I always loved it and felt competent. But I never knew I had good endurance until the aerobics craze kicked in. I tried running briefly in the late 70s, but gave myself shin splints, so never thought of just trying better shoes! I got fit so fast that after just a couple of years, I was a certified instructor teaching 7 classes a week. What a crazy time. My gym teachers are laughing from their graves, as I was the kid who was assigned to "Flab lab" when I flunked the President's Fitness Test. That test, was skill related and the only thing I could pass was the running. I will never hit a ball or get a basketball in the hoop. Flab lab was actually endurance and core work. I was not happy at being there, but I do remember feeling quite fit when it was over.
LOL! I would totally have flunked the President's fitness test too! Hah!

I loved aerobics when it became a "thing" and did it all through college and after for awhile. I tried running in college but also ended up with killer shin splints and had to stop. Interestingly, I never get them now, even as much as I stop and start with my running. I always had a bike as a kid and through high school, but I was never "good" at it, it was just a way to get around. I had no bike in college or my early 20s until DH bought me a bike when I was 26. I have been hooked ever since. Hard to believe I've been riding one bike or another as an adult for 29 years now -- though I got more serious about it in the early 2000s. Before that, it was more of an off/on thing, kinda like running is for me now.