Sports. I dont keep up with the sports that most people find entertaining, I dont go out of my way to watch football, Basketball, Baseball or any televised sport really. I keep up with my own sport, sailing. And just to make sure its clear it is a sport, its in the summer olympics and im pretty sure that makes it a sport. Sailing to me has provided another family, which I spend my entire summer with, from the day we get out of school to the day it starts up again. As a team we go everywhere together just like all sports teams do. Except for us an 8 hour trip is pretty normal to get to the competition, and 8 hours in a team van can make people pretty close to each other, in both senses of that statement. But like all teams we take it very seriously, we have practice every weekday from 8 to 4 and then travel on the weekend to show other teams and sailors what we have. We are handicapped though unlike the warmer southern states sailors who practice all year round we have a 5 month period where we cant do anything but look at the frozen water where we usually spend the majority of our time.
I see Sailing as not only a sport but a way to spend time. You dont have to take a boat out with the intention to race, you can also take the things you learned to take a cruise and listen to the water flow around your boat and just relax and enjoy the fact that you are using the wind to move. You also get a whole new way of looking at the city from the water about a mile out you can see the entirety of Chicago's lake front and at night the sight is enhanced.
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