I'm not a particularly sporty person, in fact when I was at school I spent more time in detention for 'forgetting' my PE kit than I spent actually attempting to play hockey. I don't have much of a competitive nature and so any kind of team sport, either playing it or watching, tends to bore me to tears.
The closest thing I do to a sport is horse riding, which I do 2 or 3 times a year. When I was younger I had an embarrassing obsession with horses - I used to take lessons every week from the ages 7-14, but now I just do it for fun occasionally.
A couple of weeks ago I went hacking at Lasswade stables, near Rosslyn. It's a really beautiful area of the countryside - the trail is just over 2 hours and follows the river Esk though forests and up the foothills of the Pentland hills. Its also a great opportunity to see some wildlife; I was able to see a doe deer, wild boar, grouse, herons, and some kind of kite or falcon.
Although I don't get to do it very often (it's so expensive and you have to go way out of the city centre), I really enjoy riding. I sometimes feel conflicted about how ethical equestrian sports are; I'm totally opposed to horse racing and I find a lot of practices involved in other sports like dressage and polo pretty questionable considering they force animals to do things that go completely against their nature - but overall I feel like cross country riding is a fairly sympathetic way of interacting with horses.
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