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!
I am a mom, ultrarunner, four-time US 24 Hour National Team member. They keep trying to get rid of me, but I own the uniform. 
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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