I love to throw darts while I'm working out. It started when I was in
high school and when I started exercising on a somewhat regular basis.
I needed an outlet and I wanted to be strong and my parents bought me
a weight set and weight bench that we kept out in the garage.
We had an old dart board out there with darts so I rigged it up with a
nail on an old exit door going out the side entrance of the garage. I
would throw darts at it in between my sets. I wasn't very good so
there were a lot of holes in the door and the frame around the door.
The walls were concrete so there weren't any holes in it. But I
enjoyed throwing the darts. I learned to toss them in an arc rather
than trying to turn them into bullets and throw them straight at the
board. I got to where I could get the drop and get close to a bullseye
pretty often. It was a lot of fun!
When I moved away I couldn't have a dart board at my apartment with my
wife and that was hard. But when we got our house and we got
everything set up, I did set up a dart board out in the garage.
I put it on a big piece of plywood and put cork board on the plywood
so that I wouldn't have as many holes in the walls. I didn't get any
holes in the walls of the garage there.
But I had a lot of fun flipping through Muscle and Fitness and then
throwing some darts and then do a set of weights while my neighbor
across the street watched me. (That's a different story.) When we
moved to our new house, I put my weights in the basement and I didn't
work out for a long time.
But as the kids got older, I started needing some alone time and
wanted to get strong again. So I set up my weights and weight bench
and I set up the dart board. It was actually a lot of fun. I have a
lot of good memories throwing darts with the boys when they would come
down and learn how I worked out.
I wasn't very good at teaching that and so they didn't stick around
for very long. Plus it was boring for them. They thought I was down
there doing heavy weights and I was just doing light weights. Plus me
working out was often a quiet time to where I could get alone with my
thoughts and puzzle through things.
Throwing darts at a dart board helped me think through a lot. And when
I go to the basement to do any kind of exercise, I still tend to head
for the dart board and throw the darts a couple of times. Fun!
