Moved to Oz a couple of weeks ago and in the interim period sorting a bike out I was looking at all sorts of stuff. Swimming, running, kayaking etc. Decided to get back into martial arts and found a local club that does muay thai.

Had my first session yesterday morning and they said they'd "just do a moderate session" and ease me into it. Went with the wife and another female friend but ended up getting paired with another guy a bit taller and wider than me (I'm 6'2" and 14st!). Oh my gawd. Amazing. Absolutely loved it. Started with elbow combos and by the end of the hour we were doing elbows, thigh kicks, front kicks and thai knees. Got another session on Tuesday. Can't wait. Hopefully I'll be able to walk by then!

So, is cycling your only sport?

Run lots, up to around 50 miles a week with only the occasional MTB.
Found an old diary last weekend with my training about 12 years ago. Averaging between 75 and 80 miles per week!

Ultimate Frisbee, if you don't believe that it's a sport then google it! Harder than it sounds.

Ride trials (Beta270) badminton, when I lived in South Wales surfed a couple of time a week. Thats about it.

climb up rocks. i think its called rock climbing.

Do you want the full list?

Canoe polo (first serious sport), canoe/kayak slalom, kayak marathon racing, running, swimming, windsurfing, skiing, snowboarding, xc skiing, roller hockey, climbing, sailing, horseriding, orienteering, water polo, water skiing, wake boarding.

Not like I do all of those regularly (or even at all any more), but they're all like riding a bike to me – I could go and compete/do any of them competently tomorrow. Have always done multi-sport – I have a short attention span!

Respect Aracer!

I was thinking about the different sport thing the other and day and realised why I'm competent and average at them all but not exceedingly good (except my MTBing I think! Was Welsh Junior MTB champion once so can't be too shabby!!). Swimming, running, cycling, occasionally rock climbing (indoor/bouldering) .. problem is I just don't have the time to do them all regularly. To be honest I love all sports except football and golf!

You need to take up adventure racing, m-c. The sport for jack-of-all-trades (though it does help a lot to be a good runner). Hence why I've done very well at it, despite being relatively mediocre at any single sport (though I was national junior champion at canoe polo!) There's also a lot of call for competent women given it's a mixed sport…

Aracer what adventure races do you suggest? Last winter I did 2 of the Helly Hansen adventure races which is running, MTBing and kayaking in teams of 3. to be fair on the last one we did in December we can 4th out of all the women's teams and I severly held up my other 2 on the last run (As that's my weakness and they were both super quick runners) we were still well chuffed and have entered October and Decembers this time around! any other suggestions??

Skiing, running (40 mpw – good going surfer!), hillwalking, swimming. And not current, due to lack of time, freefall parachuting and climbing – although going to have to rekindle these ones to hopefully one day teach my boys.

running, swimming mainly. Used to do British Military Fitness a couple of years ago but these days just do my own PT sessions. Did martial arts many many moons ago, started doing Yoga from a book six months ago which is proving beneficial – need to find a good class and take it up properly.

Kev

Well… technically i don't cycle at the moment because it was shortening my IT-band, so every week I;

Swim, run, indoor row, weights, hill walk, climb (bouldering), golf.

and occasionally work…

aviemoron/surfer: can you suggest an appropriate running distance/time/pace increase per week to ward off more knee trouble? any exercises?

MTT

ITB is my specialist subject unfortunately! I was off running for 11 months from start to finish! Although some of that was poor diagnosis etc so dont want to worry you.
Friends of mine suffer on and off and with a good stretching regime you can stave it off.
I wont go into detail about stretches because google will show you all you need to know. In my experience however results were slow so you need to persevere. I found the standing up and stretching to the side beneficial as well as the lying down and pulling the offending leg across your body.
Let pain be your guide if it doesnt hurt then fine but as soon as it does stop immediately, otherwise you risk inflaming it and the whole cycle starts again. I am returning from a hamstring pull so I run a small off road loop where I see nobody. It is only about 600m long but it allows be to bail out if I feel any pain whilst I am recovering.
You cannot run through this injury even if it starts as only mild discomfort.

I had a friend who only felt pain after about an hour which meant his training was only slightly disrupted. My pain appeared after 10 minutes. Not 9 or 11 but 10! It was bizarre. It eventually went as quickly as it came and I have never had it since.

Rule of thumb is add circa 10% per week to your mileage as long as all things are going well. Once clear of injury run till your eyeballs pop!

Good luck.

I run pretty well the same trails I bike.

I play cricket and football at a reasonable level. Also ski but can't affordto do that as much as i would like to.

Cooking for people, play guitar in a band, gym/jog, study Haematology as consultant, women, road riding, occasional xc, kit cars, travel, teach occasionally and volunteer for disabled children as a clown doing tricks once a month and spend time with the GF/folks as life is short.

Wish I was that sportive.

When I had problems with IT band which was then also causing me knee problems I had acupuncture .. worked a treat.

Blimey you guys have a lot of time! My weeks pan out into:
Monday – shopping and housework
Tuesday – Computrainer or chaingang (10 mile TTs every other day in the summer)
Wednesday – rest day but computrainer 2up if I'm not doing anything
Thursday – as tuesday (road race in the summer if available)
Friday – rest, gentle spin if nice weather
Sat – mtb or road ride
Sun – road ride or race

Just got back from 80 miles up behind Rivington, and it was 110 in cheshire last weekend.

Nowt time for anything else!

Dryslope snowboarding now and again. Bit of jogging too.

Erm, snowboarding, moutnainboard, and skateboard.

MTT…………remedial massage is a very successful way of treating ITB issues, that and stretching as surfer mentioned. If you can find a good Remedial Masseur, and keep up a good stretching routine there really is no reason for it to keep you off the bike, or from running 😀

Knackered knee so stopped running but limited funds still spent on cycling, road, mtb and cross. Active rider of motorcycle trials and enduros (just got back from the Cwm Owen Enduro). Hill walking and camping. 4wd ing.Shooting (the deer season has just started ). Occasional attempts at old loves of climbing, surfing, canoeing, caving. Long abandoned, (1991) snowboarding and skiing.

Bloody hell dont any of you people have jobs how do you find the time to do all these sports. In between work, commuting, DIY, housework, shopping, sleeping, 1 night out a week with the missus, darts on a monday night in winter and rugby practice on a wednesday night I manage to squeeze in 1 decent ride and 2 or 3 training rides a week.

Do you lot have the secret of time travel

Well I don't do those sports regularly ALL the time! at present for me it goes
Monday – swimming 70-100 lengths depending on how I'm feeling.
Tuesday – weights
Wed – spinning (or circuits last week)
Thurs – swimming
Friday – day off
Sat – swimming
Sun – weights

Sat and Sun would normally be MTBing but as Mr MC is off with a broken knee I'm not getting out on my own (boo!). Try to get a run in there somewhere instead of a swim but it's flipping hard work squeezing it in around a job! but I don't have kids which makes life easier.

surfer/clareymorris – Thanks for the response(s), i hadn't expected/hoped for such a detailed reply. However it rather highlights the fact that i should have asked on here first as i systematically did everything you said not to do in roughly the same order as though it was a check-list. Cue running through it. Several pairs of trainers later i ventured to an podiatrist who corrected some Achilles alignment issues and a leg length discrepancy. I have a fairly time consuming stretch regime now and don't suffer any pain when running (20mins three times a week at the moment, with 2.5 mins extra per run per week) but i am constantly aware its on the edge. It just came from nowhere! frustrating. 👿

Sports massage is next as kindly suggested.

MTT I would look at acupuncture and reflexology both have worked wonders for me in relation to two different knee injuries over the last few years.

hockey, playing dad, dog walker, work as a sparky then mtber

Tend to do something for a few years and then get bored and try a new sport.
Past sports include – rugby, jui sitsu, judo, volleyball, swimming
Now – hockey, stand up paddleboard(summer), windsurf(summer), snowbaord(winter) and MTB of course.
Also very into VWs so spend time tinkering in the garage too.

Hunt, shoot, fish, wakeboard, sail, squash, tennis, kites. Oh, and beer.

MTT great to hear you are getting some help with it………….hope it continues to improve. I have not suffered but MrCM is a remedial masseur, and I am in traing to be one so always interesting to hear peoples stories and the approaches they take 😀

I'm not sure I do any sport. I go for rides which are more of an extended photoshoot interspersed with brief bouts of pedaling, totty gawping and eating. More sporty than darts though 🙂

I haven't had any IT probs, but my hamstrings, OUCH. I've been slowly building up the weekly mileage for 3 months now and I can generally run along quite nicely, but when I pick up the pace I can really feel the lower hamstrings start to tighten up. Lots of stretching and stopping when I feel it coming on bad seem to work, but it's still a niggle. However, it does stop me overdoing it! I think it comes from so many years of riding bikes.

Martial arts ( brazilian jiu-jitsu )
Weight training
Cricket
fishing

MTB is my No.2 sport, waterskiing is my passion – set a new PB on the slalom course today at 34mph.
Snowboarding / skiing during winter.
Gave up Kung Fu due to injuries.
Gym work during the week as there are no trails near home.

Played Rugby at quite a high level until an injury put paid to that. The good thing about my life in the army was getting to try lots of different sports that you maybe wouldn't have the opportunity to try in normal life.

I tend to get really into a sport or hobby for a few years, to the exclusion of almost everything else, and then move on to something new.

Thanks to the military and this approach to life, I've got to a pretty good level at freefall parachuting, rock climbing, sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, shooting (competition and clay pigeon), downhill skiing and crosscountry skiing.

With the exception of skiing (downhill) and windsurfing I don't do any of these sports regularly now.

and

Bloody hell, so many pricks on sticks! Waterskis?

PAH!
Get with the prorgram, people! Wake's where it's at!

Ski/Telemark but haven't for ages as did it for a job and got bored !
running/rogaine/orienteering/mtb-o/flatwater kayaking
Adventure racing mostly for the last 6 years
Play drums, cook a lot

CFH, can you do any tricks tho? and holding the handle in one hand doesn't really count, I can do that. 😉