On being crap at sports
Feb. 17th, 2010 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI can identify with Tricia Sullivan's on being a crap runner. Not because I necessarily am. But because in my head I am. There is no way my brain can accept that I'm athletic. I'm not a runner, swimmer, cyclist, whatever. I'm just a person who happens to do those things. I don't even take them particularly seriously. For some strange definition of seriously.
Plus. Sullivan's advice is good: don't run a ten miler on day one; start slowly and build up.
Bear also has a good take on the idea, particularly that sport is fun and exercise is boring. But I see things the other way around. Sport is boring. Sport is madly competitive. Sport is thing I hated at school. But exercise is good. Exercise has a meditative quality. Exercise is about blowing off stress. Making time to think things over. Becoming fit enough to outrun the zombie apocalypse. Important stuff like that.
Plus. Sullivan's advice is good: don't run a ten miler on day one; start slowly and build up.
Bear also has a good take on the idea, particularly that sport is fun and exercise is boring. But I see things the other way around. Sport is boring. Sport is madly competitive. Sport is thing I hated at school. But exercise is good. Exercise has a meditative quality. Exercise is about blowing off stress. Making time to think things over. Becoming fit enough to outrun the zombie apocalypse. Important stuff like that.
