Chalk up one more for the martial arts geeks, I did about 5 years of Ju Jitsu and about 3 years of TKD a number of years back, and even though I gave them up years ago I think what I learnt there still helps to improve me as a person today.

These days my stress reliever of choice is to go out for a run at lunchtime, we're lucky enough to have a shower in the office and there's nothing more calming than to spend half an hour running the backroads with nothing but my mp3 player for company, helps negate the effects of my other love too (beer) 🙂

Our office has an unofficial sports night one day a week as well, where a number of us knock off early and play tennis or badminton depending on the weather - there's nothing like slamming an ace past the colleague who criticised your work earlier that day 😉