I had the same experience when I was playing competitive Table Tennis. I was the only one playing a sport, everyone else was watching the NFL and Basketball and gorging themselves on Cheetos and potato chips.
Now I am trying to become a competitive shooter. Very, very difficult to do in Texas with the great shooters we have. It will be about a year or two before I get everything under control. A great challenge. And I don’t have to depend on my bad knees (rugby injury).
Competitive shooting is pretty harsh competition in Kentucky too. The highpower match shooters at the local rifle club around here can do scary things at 200 yards on open sights with customized AR type rifles and the venerable Springfield Armory M1A.