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do you have a sport you are passionate about (watching telly, shopping or napping does not count!)

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kitegirl · 28/11/2005 15:43

and how do you find time to do it? How long have you been into it? what is best about it? Is it YOUR thing or does your DP share your passion? just interested...

(SAHM but also a snowboarder and kitesurfer)

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Feistybird · 28/11/2005 15:45

badminton.

Play in the evenings

20 years

It's competitive and sociable

No, just mine.

Fimbo · 28/11/2005 15:45

I love ten pin bowling.

chjlly · 28/11/2005 15:46

I play hockey. every week on a saturday dh looks after the kids either by coming to watch or staying at home with them! I have played since I was 13 and had a break for 4 years - started again this year after having the kids. didn't miss it when I wasn't playing then but would miss it now if I stopped playing! especially after the storming game I had yesterday!!!

Fimbo · 28/11/2005 15:46

Sorry didn't read thread properly.

Dh loves ten pin as well, we don't play nearly as much as we used to, since having children.

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Leogaela · 29/11/2005 08:55

Before ds (9 months), I was running and doing triathlons (run for as long as I can remember and trathlons for about 3 years). Now I manage to run and swim once a week during my lunch breaks from work and sometimes run with the buggy on my days off.
I keep trying to work out ways to do more, but am really torn between spending my time with my family or training alone.

Its my thing, but me & DH did do a lot of mountain biking together before... we plan to buy a trailer for ds so we can do more (less technical stuff) again this year.

Also a snowboarder, dh is a skier and not as keen as me so I will get to do much more when we go than he will ! Can't wait until ds is ready to learn to ski!

pinotgrigio · 29/11/2005 09:35

Trampolining. I'm never in one place long enough to join a club any more. Even if I did though, I'm not sure if my pelvic floor would be up to it these days.

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kitegirl · 29/11/2005 14:34

I love my snowboarding and my kitesurfing and we try to make time for it, on holidays, and sometimes getting MIL to babysit on weekends when it's good winds on the south/southeast coast. I got my husband into snowboarding and he got me into kitesurfing, and it's nice to be able to do something together besides watching telly and arguing about chores... I would like to meet more girls who are into board sports though!

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expatinscotland · 29/11/2005 14:35

I was a rock climber and keen hillwalker. Nothing like a day in the peaks or on a warm cliff, the sun on your back.

NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 29/11/2005 14:35

Dh and I snowboard. We love it.

Just found out yesterday we're going to Austria next April for a week snowboarding so we can't wait

acnebride · 29/11/2005 14:40

rowing. but i must say i've had a break of 10 years and have only just joined another club. was ready for a break but was also told by xh that if i didn't leave the club we couldn't go out any more

dh loves it too and now sculls and coaches. i want to do a coaching course.

love it because of being outside and the rhythm - meditative zen thing - also having spent 7 years getting slowly better at it i just love exercising the skill. also it's one of the few sports where you can sit down.

Leogaela · 30/11/2005 07:16

Kitegirl - I'm a snowboarder, I live in Switzerland and before I got pregnant I spent most winter (autumn and spring) weekends on the slopes. We are going over christmas and I am soooooooo excited about it! More so than usual as I missed a whole season of some of the best snow last year while I was pregnant.
Kite surfing looks like my kind of thing but there isn't anywhere to do it close enough to home to make it worth it.

I also think rowing looks pretty cool, they do it a lot here on the lake in Zurich.

How the hell do people get time to watch tv?

NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 30/11/2005 10:59

We've just found out we're going to Austria in April

Dh got straight on the net buying new gear and I've got my eye on some nice boots and pants

Only thing is we have to leave dd here but it's only for 1 week I suppose.

Anyone been to Austria?

Lizzylou · 30/11/2005 11:10

Feeling very "ordinary" in my sporting likes here, but no matter!
We have always loved walking and have completed the Macchu Picchu trail pre-DS, we try and get out as a family when we can, we are lucky as we live in close proximity to lovely countryside and lots of hills!
I also swim, at least twice a week at the moment to try and keep in shape during pregnancy.
Would love to ski/snowboard but Dh has bad knees which wouldn't stand up to it..we do live very near a dry slope though so in the future I may have a go!

Gizmo · 30/11/2005 11:36

Acnebride, 'one of the few sports in which you get to sit down', yeah right and they make it so relaxing....

Used to love rowing, btw, but as I get older prefer to participate in solo sports (principally running) as it's less of an organisational challenge. I share a love of activity with DH, too: running, hillwalking, rowing, windsurfing, skiing. We both appreciate the endorphins and just being outside, in a natural environment.

Leogaela · 30/11/2005 14:36

Where abouts in Austria are you going NBGWS? I've been to Sölden (for a weekend), and a couple of small places (have to think hard to remember the names). I think Austria is a fantastic place to ski, probably better than Switzerland , but i won't say that too loud here!

Gizmo, same, I love any sports that get me outside. I am reading a book about fell running at the moment which makes me itch! before I got pregnant i had started doing a lot of hill running but I'm too unfit at the moment to enjoy running up hills..... I WANT TO BE FIT AGAIN!

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kitegirl · 30/11/2005 15:30

Hi Leongaela - you are very very very lucky! Switzerland! Even if you miss a season because of pregnancy there are always the glaciers... I absolutely LOVE Verbier. So much so that, against all medical orders, I found myself cruising down on my Burton Custom just 4 weeks after my son was born in a c-section, end of season 2004...

They have banned kitesurfing on the lakes in Switzerland, unfortunately. You should give it a go, if you are a snowboarder you'll learn it really quickly!

NBGWS, been to St Anton years ago which was wild - after ski there is mental, or was about 10 years ago. Wouldn't be able to hack it now. Where you going? we are off to Italy in Jan, can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait!

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NotActuallyAMum · 30/11/2005 15:49

I love football. Not playing I hasten to add, just watching, DP thinks it's great! We support different teams and go to watch both whenever work and finances allow. And we watch LOTS of football on the telly

Ururupuin · 30/11/2005 16:17

Have been doing karate for about a year after deciding that watching the kids and dh was boring. much more fun to beat them up
am now a purple belt but have had to stop until after twins born, not many shops sell maternity gi's

NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 30/11/2005 16:24

Ok I'll try and spell it like it sounds, lol, Sladminger? Is that correct?

We will be travelling with a coach load of teenagers and going on the ferry but tbh it doesn't really bother me. For £600 for 2 of us, travel, hotel and meals I think it's a bargain.

Can you recommend any good websites to buy some gear from? Dh is insisting everything has to be Burton but I'm not that bothered. He has all the gear where as I only have the clothes. I'd like to get some boots if possible but don't want to break the bank.

Hausfrau · 30/11/2005 16:31

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NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 30/11/2005 16:34

Hausfrau

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kitegirl · 02/12/2005 09:55

and I like surfers' abs...

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kitegirl · 02/12/2005 10:28

right, websites (got distracted by surfers' abs...mmmm....)

ebay is great for getting cheap stuff, second hand boards etc
or blue-tomato.at, they ship all over Europe
or the UK shops, snowandrock.co.uk does online
I've bought stuff while actually in the resorts as the shops may let you try it first on the slopes which is great!
I actually checked out yesterday the indoor slope in Milton Keynes, very weird - real snow inside and cold as you like. I come from Finland where we are covered in snow for 6 months so the idea of actually having a year-round artificial winter is BIZARRE! good luck with your shopping - I don't understand what it is with the boys, my DH just likes owning every possible piece of equipment (burton this and burton that) even if it just sits cluttering our house. exasperated sigh

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NewBethlehemGirlwithsparkles · 02/12/2005 10:36

We're bidding on some stuff on e-bay atm. Had a look at Blue Tomato but dhsaid he doesn't understand the shipping costs.

I tried some pants on in TK Maxx yesterday for bargain prices so I might go back and get some bits from there.

I've just bought dh a subscription to the whitelines magazine for xmas so that will please him

Was it Xscape you went to? We go to the one up here in Castleford. It's fab.

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