me - soccer (1st - 6th grade)
XC - 7th, 8th grade
swim team - 8th grade thru junior year
road racing - sophomore to now
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me - soccer (1st - 6th grade)
XC - 7th, 8th grade
swim team - 8th grade thru junior year
road racing - sophomore to now
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Played football and ran middle distance.
Youth - baseball and soccer
High school - wrestling and track
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Soccer till I was old enough to play football (4th grade pop warner).
Football, baseball and golf through freshman year in high school.
Softmore year was golf and a lot of skateboarding (my parents least favorite year).
Then Wrestling and Golf for the remainder of High School. Learned to run as a wrestler.
I miss Little League. Those were great summers.
Before I was 18:
Soccer (goalie or defender)
Team Handball
Table Tennis
Gymnastics
Bike racing
Herbert
LitespeedQR
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basketball
basketball
basketball
basketball
pissed away college playing pickup ball sometimes for 6-8hours a day. Great shape= lousy grades=even worse knees.
Over 9 years of motocross racing. I guess that makes me the oddball.
football?! wrestling?! and now triathlons… how’d that change happen?
Football 6-20
Track & field: Decathlon and shotput, discus and hammer throw.
Triathlon 20 until now.
Mathematics.
2nd thru 6th grade. Soccer
7th thru 9th. Wrestling
6th thru 9th. skateboarding
My mom never let me play football She said I was too small, she was right but I still didn’t like it.
Soccer - 1st grade till sophmore in High School
Rec Swimming - 3 years told til 8 years old
Club Swimming - 6 years old till Senior in College
…4 year break to work on my drinking…
Triathlons - 2004 until I die!!!
But now my drinking has fallen way behind, my liver thanks me for it
-bcreager
Cross country 8th grade (only 2 meets though)
Baseball, football, basketball through 10th grade
Baseball and football, 11th grade
Football, 12th grade through college; weighed 220 lbs and could bench press over 400 at my peak…currently at about 175 and dropping back to race weight of 165’ish
Rugby in addition to football in college (graduated 1982)
Not much after that until running Bay to Breakers in 1984 and then having a friend introduce me to triathlon the following year.
in order -
swim team 5-15yrs
rugby, field hockey, squash and tennis competitvely through uni and after. 11-35yrs
martial arts 30-35
tri 35-39
neo - roadie 39
swimming, soccer, sailboat racing, and snow skiing
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Kissy Katch
Pin the tail on the Donkey
Rock Fights
Cowboys N’ Indians
Hopscotch
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Swimming - started at 6 and by 11, when they started binding our legs together with rubber inner-tube strips for butterfly practice, I’d had enough
Track - on an off through elementary and middle-school (although we called it “Jr. High” then)
Tennis - pretty much continuously from elementary to high-school
Football - from elementary to high-school when they wisely advised me that maybe I was too small and should reconsider playing at the high-school level
Soccer - since elementary, but organized soccer in high-school (late-70’s and we started the first soccer league in our city)
Surfing - from middle-school to high-school
Sailing - from 10 to my mid-thirties (I was most successful at this sport)
never played any of those as I was crap at all of them!
dodgeball
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soccer, rowing. I miss rowing. There’s something about being out on the water when the sun comes up. Then running, tris; now bike racing.