Second Things Second*

This is going to be a slightly different post and not sure why. I think I’m just a bit tired of people commenting one two things: the first is how I look and the second is how to running.

The first is that I have a fairly runner-like body. Not quite the same as someone who runs distance professionally (years of skating and hurdling will never allow my legs to tiny like theirs) but I’m petite I suppose. And that is both built on luck (metabolism and genetics) and work. When people talk about stuff like being in shape who are not built like me, they tend to always infer that I don’t know what it’s like to work at looking like I do. Perhaps, if I “gave up” I wouldn’t ever find myself obese, but I certainly would gain weight and not run what I run. But people don’t seem to understand that or how much work I put into my fitness. I find it frustrating because it’s not something I can really complain about be it truly in sort of a firstworldproblem but it’s still something that bothers me. I work hard and I take pride in my hard work and what it results in.

And the second sort of ties into the first. The same people who tend to say that I don’t understand a daily food and workout battle are also telling me how to run, how to eat, what exercises they do and why what I do isn’t necessary the best,  I usually stare at them and give them my blinkblink look. Here’s the deal: everyone is different and what works for one may not work for the other person. But what works for me is working for me thankyouverymuch so please don’t offer unsolicited advice unless I ask or am paying you.

So where I usually try to keep this blog focused on my running and the good, hard, etc side of that, I’ve been in a fairly Bad Mood Base for a bit and felt like a rant.

In other news though, I did SIGN UP FOR BAYSTATE 2018. bring in Boston 2020.

*Don’t you tell me what you think that I could be