Phone call with my non-running friend, Leslie:
Leslie: So, I read your blog post about your race. I don’t get it.
Me: What part?
Leslie: The whole thing.
Me: That’s a lot.
Leslie: Explain it to me.
Me: Explain what?
Leslie: Like how you can run for 78 miles and get fatter. What’s the point?
Me: I didn’t get fatter, I got bloated.
Leslie: Whatever. You got bigger AFTER running for hours. Isn’t that like the exact opposite purpose of exercise?
Me: Well, yes, but like I said, I didn’t get fatter. It was temporary.
Leslie: And you puked for a couple of hours?
Me: Yes, unfortunately, that’s usually part of it.
Leslie: AND you ended bigger than you started? After hours of running AND puking?
Me: Okay, I’m not going to keep having this conversation. I DID NOT get fatter!
Leslie: Basically, it sucks AND you get fatter. Great sport.
Me: Whatever. I see you didn’t like the post.
Leslie: The only thing that made any sense was that you needed to get a boob job.
Me: I have to go.
Leslie: I’m just sayin’.
Lesson: Check caller ID after a race and don’t answer calls from non-runners. Or, just lie in your race reports.
Happy Running!
Mom, ultrarunner, four-time US 24 Hour National Team member, adventure athlete, food writer. Graduate of the Pro Cooking Program at the New School of Cooking, Los Angeles. Will run for food.
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Your last post actually left me speechless, so I’m glad someone else took up the slack and made it weird. I’m tempted to add a link here I found of video of a woman with enormous breast implants jogging – looks more than uncomfortable.
Oh no! I never want to leave anyone speechless 🙂 And trust me, I have plenty of people who are willing to take up the slack and make it weird! 🙂
Non-runners do not get it. Non-riders don’t get it either. I’m always hearing “why do you fall so much??”, and no one understands that the GOOD people (a group in which I don’t belong) fall too…because they’re doing harder stuff. One of my (first grade) students suggested in all sincerity that I get training wheels. 😛
That is too cute, Kate! And maybe training wheels are my answer 🙂
Has she never blown up a balloon? Or gotten bloated after an ill-advised drink of milk (stupid lactose intolerance)?
HA! You are so hilarious Carilyn.
Way to get out there and give it your all, no matter the outcome!
Thanks, Kirstin! I had waaaaaaaay too much time to think on that run 🙂
This is LA, Char 🙂 There is very little tolerance for any activity that makes you bigger at the end 🙂
THought of you and your 100 miler all weekend. Need to go read up now!
It was fun AND miserable 🙂
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