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How far do you drive for fencing lessons? Just wondering how many people out there have to make a LONG drive to get to their nearest fencing club? I'm just curious..
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i live in rockingham AUS and my fencing lessons are a 50min drive every saturday ....oh well its worth it!! you all a bunch of ... pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!! 
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Right now, both places are pretty much on my way home from work, but it's about 25 miles from work, and about 20 from home. Not bad, but I used to drive an hour and a half (without traffic), by myself when I was in high school. "Life is like a wheel, where everyone steals, but when we rise, it's like Strawberry Fields."
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I drive about 45 minutes to get to the club. Except when I go on Saturdays and the Gators have a home game. I found out today that it takes about an hour and a half when that happens. Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.
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I drive about an hour each Saturday to see my coach, but I also help with the club at my university and fence at another club that is about a half hour away.
When you lose your path, make a new one.
Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
~Catullus
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Usually I drive between 45 minutes to an hour each way, sometimes more depending on the traffic. There is one good club only about 20 minutes from where I live, but my club is excellent, and the training is definitely worth the drive.
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3.4 miles. 
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About 4.1...poor me
That's about 10-15 minutes.
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I train at a local recreation center ~1m away from my house .. for free!
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About 150 yards, but that's because I have to drive around the garages in the apartment complex. Walking shaves about 50 yards off. 
I used to drive 2.5 hours to train at Westdale FC in Canada, but that was X% lessons, (100-X)% cute girl.
darius
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 Originally Posted by darius  About 150 yards, but that's because I have to drive around the garages in the apartment complex. Walking shaves about 50 yards off.
I used to drive 2.5 hours to train at Westdale FC in Canada, but that was X% lessons, (100-X)% cute girl.
darius Where X is pretty damned low.
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I know for certain that there has already been a thread almost exactly like this one, but with the twist of asking whether the price of gas has effected the amount of fencing you do.
My current answer for how far I go for fencing lessons:
I walk across campus... not far until is snows two feet in about a month or so... "Fencing is a sport where physical attributes seem not as important as determination."
-Jo Shaff, from Fencing
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I have a 25 mile drive each way, which takes between 20 min and 1.5 hours. The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated. -Oscar Wilde
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Lessons? 168 km (1.5 hours). Then I wait for the ferry 1 hour. Then I spend 1.75 hours on the ferry. Then usually about another 1 hour drive across town, depending on traffic.
Sometimes I get more than one lesson per trip, though.
Fencing? 96 km return trip.
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To local club: 30 minutes/twice a week.
To UNC club: 1 hour and a half/ once a week.
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I walk two blocks to give lessons and drive 90 miles to get lessons.
Tomas
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About 15 or 20 minutes. Used to be about 40 minutes one way, which got to be pretty brutal on the gas tank when I was going three times a week.
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An hour each way, 4-6x per week, depending on national competition schedule.
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Where X is pretty damned low.
I don't know - he's a pretty damn good foil coach.
darius
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I drive 2 hours each way to get lessons, about 10 min each way for local fencing.
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