Seeking to keep myself fit over the Winter, I signed up for a long run in February. The entry fee was cheaper than a month at the gym, and goes to one of my favourite charities
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most people think they are better at Y than most people
Ah - I'm exceptional. No, really. I am terrible at running, and almost everyone is better at it than me. As a P.E. teacher once memorably remarked of me, I'm built more for comfort than speed. And when I'm briskly walking any distance I can't help thinking how inefficient it is and how much better it would be to use the great gift of the bicycle. (I don't generally think on the occasions when I do run, because they are invariably the result of some impending and urgent crisis that occupies what little of my brain is not taken up with 'Ow'.)
I read something the other day about how humans might have evolved specifically to be good at long-distance running, and felt an unwelcome sense of being Australopithecine.
I am with dr. doug. Body seems more well designed for lounging with my dogs in my bed under a duvet. (Where I am now...) And I've worked my adult life on perfecting that design!
Oh, I'm getting in a lot of practice at lounging too. Also sprawling and lolling. Sometimes I wish I had less knobbly elbows, and maybe a better built-resting position for the head while reading (massively padded collarbones?), but you're right, the whole is designed awfully well.
This is the snag - that although people think they're awesome, lots of people feel they're very bad at sport and singing. I'm wondering if I can trace that back to traumatic school experiences.
how inefficient it is and how much better it would be to use the great gift of the bicycle.
But striding around is really fun! Except if you've knackered your legs by failing to warm down from a run. Ow.
As a P.E. teacher once memorably remarked of me, I'm built more for comfort than speed.
Was your P.E. teacher Mae West? I suppose it's better than your career advisor telling you so. My P.E. report (age 11) said 'treats the subject with amused contempt'. I was mainly feeling fear and nausea, but I didn't quibble.
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(I have some German army-surplus thermal underclothes I could lend. But silk longjohns sound more appealing.)
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(I used to wear army surplus underwear as pyjamas at college! I was well hard. And toasty warm.)
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Goodness, but that feels familiar...
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most people think they are better at Y than most people
Ah - I'm exceptional. No, really. I am terrible at running, and almost everyone is better at it than me. As a P.E. teacher once memorably remarked of me, I'm built more for comfort than speed. And when I'm briskly walking any distance I can't help thinking how inefficient it is and how much better it would be to use the great gift of the bicycle. (I don't generally think on the occasions when I do run, because they are invariably the result of some impending and urgent crisis that occupies what little of my brain is not taken up with 'Ow'.)
I read something the other day about how humans might have evolved specifically to be good at long-distance running, and felt an unwelcome sense of being Australopithecine.
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how inefficient it is and how much better it would be to use the great gift of the bicycle.
But striding around is really fun! Except if you've knackered your legs by failing to warm down from a run. Ow.
As a P.E. teacher once memorably remarked of me, I'm built more for comfort than speed.
Was your P.E. teacher Mae West? I suppose it's better than your career advisor telling you so. My P.E. report (age 11) said 'treats the subject with amused contempt'. I was mainly feeling fear and nausea, but I didn't quibble.
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