"Lonely" sports and AS

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I hated team sports at school so back then people might have thought it meant I wasn't that much into excersize, however after leaving school I got very much into cycling and some weeks covered 100 miles cycling about alone and I would cycle at least 5 days out of the week. Hardly ever doing any less than at least 10 miles.

So clearly it wasn't a dislike of excersize. In team sports at school I felt uncoordinated, clumsy, never part of the team...I also could never ever understand or retain the rules of the team games and messed up as a result...Also I didn't keep up with the verbal exchanges quick enough, so f someone was telling me, quick go here, block so and so, I'm like, huh? If it comes by my own instinct I'm fine but taking these cue's from other people I can't do.

I never learned to ride a bike until 9yrs old but some years later my bike became the one thing I felt comfortable with, where I felt clumsy with other things I felt much better with my bike.

I started getting into some off road stuff and where I would never be as good maybe as the best at certain things I would be alot better than average.

...At one point I was riding down flights of subway steps etc, riding fast gnarly trails [my fave] and doing jumps to a certain extent which is not bad considering my un-coordination and clumsyness in team sports. What I noticed in mountain biking is that your reactions had to be fast and what's the word...primitive?...you didn't have time to think, what happened, happened naturally for the most part - hense I was better at gnarly fast downhill trails than I was at jumps that were planned out [thus giving me time to become analytical = not good, the more you 'think' the more you mess up] In team sports there was too much thinking allowing me to do the usual over thinking that I do when given time and probably resulting in un natural un fluid reactions. For instance I can dance really well but I can not follow someone else's routine at all.

When I am doing my own thing I am good when it is expected I am not.

Last edited by Stray-Ana on 13 Mar 2009, 3:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I just thought about hockey and what not and though I hardly played it I know how you had to bend a bit and hold the stick and run all felt incredibly awkward and unnatural. But then I feel really physically awkward just sweeping up with a broom etc.

A mountain biker I often encounter on the trail told me almost the identical thing! He has very good instincts, but tends to overthink when given the opportunity. What fun to bomb down a singletrack! Until I broke my shoulder I mtb'd at least once a week. Enjoy your time off-road.

Thanks I don't get to do the fast stuff as much as I used to but I still love it - now a days I have my two big dogs connected to the bike so they can get good excersize - that is a whole new set of skills I had to learn!! - having 180lbs of dog attached!

I still love my MTB it is still one of my favourite 'objects' and even if I come to a point where I never ride it I will keep it just to look at it - I will never sell it, it's to beautiful and I'm so attached to it! As for riding it, it was like it was built just for me - other bikes can make me feel awkward.

I've already answered this, but I just wanted to add something else. One of the things that I HATE about team sports is how everyone gets all frantic and starts yelling and carrying on. It's supposed to be supportive and motivating, I think, but it never sounds that way. Like, someone is running towards the ball, trying to catch it, and the people on the sidelines are yelling, "GO!! GO!! GO!! CATCH IT!! CATCH!! ! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!! !!" They get so worked up, and I know logically that they aren't angry, but a lot of times they sound like they are. It makes me feel physically uncomfortable. It's hard for me to understand how or why people get so worked up about something like that, and it kind of creeps me out a bit. If I' m playing (which I never do anymore) it makes me want to freeze and say, "Would everyone please just shut the hell up?"



Save the angry, frantic yelling for when someone is running away with your baby, not when someone is trying to catch a ball!

JMO