I am sitting here and I was thinking about what I am about to Blog about. I could tell you a cool story, I could fill you in on what has been happening since the last blog, or I could tell you about a realisation I have had while sitting here.
Well, it is not really a realisation, I have known this for a long time, but when you really think about it, it is like, whoa, Sport hey!!??
What I mean is, how much does sport take up my life, across all areas and in all ways.
To keep it a little bit more conscise... the last blog got a bit lengthy with flying distractions amongst it (if you don't know what I am talking about, read my previous blog!) I will break it down into major categories.
Social, Work, Food, Leisure/Free time, Entertainment, seem like good categories, you could even throw in Future and boring things like Daily living, expense, etc.
So lets have a look at this then.
I am sure I am not the only one with this addiction, affiliation and passion for all things sport, but here is my personal take on how it engrosses my daily life.
Work: considering I am a P.E. teacher at a school for students from Kindergarten to Middle School, it is fair to say that almost all of my work time is made up of teaching, demonstrating, playing, officiating and generally being amongst physical movement all school day. When I am not with a class, I might be uploading photos or videos of the previous class doing different sports, writing reports about students in the class using sport related words, or planning the next lesson or sporting activities coming up at the school. Along with the Sports coaching of Cross Country and Track and Field at the school which I do, and being on playground duty, where most of the kids are running around being active, I would say that my work day is pretty sport filled. The only time it is not, is when I am sitting down to eat something in the Staffroom. Which leads me to my next one.
Food: So I would not say that I am obessed with food, but I do like eating, generally large portions, as fuel for the fire, charging up for more sport. If I am not eating or drinking enough, then I won't have the energy needed to do sport. So basically, this is important right? I guess I could take it up a notch and make eating a sport... well at times it can be, when I am using my competitive instincts to eat fast, so I get a chnace at the last slice, order big at resturants so I can win the 'best meal on the table award' (note: this award does not actially exist) or make some fancy food so I can enjoy the spoils later with a big eat.
Social: Many of my social networks are sports related, be it training partners, friends to go and watch sports with or talk about it with and then actually planning social events that involve some sort of movement. Example, hey guys, do ya wanna meet up and go for a run in the morning? or hey, its nice weather, lets meet at the beach volleyball nets and get a bit of a game going, after we can go eat, you wanna?
Leisure: So as with the above, my free time is inundated with sports activities. For example, last night when I left my sport fuelled workplace, I went to the Physio, to get some treatment for a sports related problem, so I can then go on and continue doing sport. After this I came home, switched on the TV for a few minutes to watch some of the Euro 2012 Soccer match between France and England, while I was getting ready to get out the door for an hour run with Renate. Then we got back, did a circuit and stretching, then ate, and then settled down to watch the next Euro 2012 match, Sweden versus Ukraine. When this was done, it was time to get off to bed. I fell asleep pretty quickly, as I was tired from a big day and happily started dreaming about sports...so much so, that I was jolted awake when I was punched in the guts, in my dream boxing fight versus, Super heavyweight champ, Wladimir Klitschko.
Good story hear, and completly true.... I got puched in my dream fight, it woke me, then I must have jumped a mile as it also woke Renate and I distinctly remember making some sort of sound effect that resembled being punched in the guts by a heavyweight boxer, then Renate turned over and said... 'It's ok, go back to sleep'... maybe she saw the look on my face!? I only remebered this early sleeping incident in the morning and am yet to ask Renate for clarification, but that is how I remember it!
Entertainment: well obviously it would be sports viewing (live, online or tv) or playing that would be my number choice of entertainment. When I have had a break with running, I will always fill this time with other sports that I don't generally get to do when in full time training (last time it was Beach Volleyball, Squash, Tennis and Basketball) as well as looking for Sports events to watch, I even considered going down to the local indoor sports stadium to watch the World Champs in Curling when they hit town a couple of months ago!
Future: I am not talking about any Michael J Fox movie or anything here, more my personal future. When discussing the future, we have talked about where we might like to live in the future, which holiday destinations we would like visit, how we want to spend money... It all has a similar theme, sport.
When we were looking online at places to live here in Switzerland, the first thing we checked was how close it was to a good forest with running trails in it, thereafter we considered how close it was to shops, how big the apartment was, vicinity to public transport, price. etc. This is a major factor in our choice of living and in the future what decisions we make.
All in all, as you may have gathered from the above, sport takes over and is what makes up me personally. If it wasn't for this healthy addiction, I would be unemployed, probably obese, bored and untravelled. Thankfully I found sports at a top level to be involved in (which I have been doing competitively since I was 9 years old) as well as teams to support, across a range of sports, and reasons to see the world. I believe sport gives you a purpose in life, and in your day to day activities. If it wasn't for that, why get out of bed in the morning? Instead we choose to go to bed earlier, to wake up earlier, so we can go for a Long Run on a Sunday morning, while the rest of the world sleeps in and misses out!
That is it for now, I am going to go on the Guiness Book of records website and see if there is a section for the most mentions of the word 'sport' in a blog post... if not, then I reckon we just may have a winner!
Catch ya soon, and feedback is appreciated
Cheers
Clint
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