associated in random thought

my two hundredth blog entry goes like this:

i have ventured back into the world of the YMCA recently, after a bit of a hiatus. i attend a very posh Y; it's more like the Y country club for the beautiful and the lycra-clad. i am working on my resentment issues.

in my target-bought bathing suit, i went to water aerobics tonight: my 2nd time this week. (you are astonished by my discipline.) tonight was the more agressive kind of workout, with noodles and weights and an overzealous, marathon-running teacher called catie (with a c). i did jumping jacks and seahorses, cheerleaders and reverse cheerleaders with carol and karen and kara and various other k & c names. nice girls, chatty. catie is getting married in a few weeks to a golf pro. she's a big fan of reese witherspoon and loves to run marathons. when i asked her for an immediate solution for shin splints, she asked, "oh are you running the marathon too?" hahaha, i thought. but i said, "no, not this year."
"do you run?"
at this question, i am impressed with my athletic prowess: someone on God's green earth thinks it possible that I, of all the women in the water aerobics class, could possibly be a runner. so to preserve this image, i say: sometimes.

sometimes to catie means i'm not running the marathon this year (probably because i've got conflicting fitness engagements, which she understands.)

sometimes to me means that i have run before: across streets, a frantic block to catch a train in london once (remember, jude?), that one time in april, when i was 14 and played soccer. see? i sometimes run. i am athletic.

actually, right now i am just sore.

Posted by bananie at March 24, 2003 12:00 AM | TrackBack