sweet nova dreams.
Lately, I’ve been really good at finding things to do at night besides sleeping. Tonight I was going to do pilates and was changing the channel on my TV to video mode, when I happened to stop on PBS. Nova was doing a show with 12 average people who they were training to run the Boston Marathon. I got sucked in and couldn’t stop watching, which meant I couldn’t do pilates. Oh well. Then the show started talking about health issues and claimed that even if you look like you’re a healthy weight, you still could very well be overfat. Overfat?? What an absolutely horrible, disgusting word. All of the women on the Nova team are overfat. Eeek. And one of the ways you get overfat is by not using your muscles enough. So, I started to get all panicky and decided I’d do some pilates on my own while continuing to watch Nova. Then I discovered that I have actually memorized two routines from my favorite pilates DVD. Thank you every much, Denise Austin.
Sometimes I think it would be cool to run a marathon and other time I think it’s absolutely ridiculous and horrible for your body. But then I realize I probably think this because I know I’m a horrible distance runner and am making excuses for why this isn’t a big deal. Whatever. I’m actually a pretty amazing sprinter, which I think is a much more useful skill to have. When am I ever going to have to run a long distance? But there’s no telling when I might need to sprint away from (or to) something. I just realized that the dad of a girl I know is on Team Nova. Pretty impressive that a 6′3″, 290 lb former NFLer can run the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon. And I cannot.
I think I’ll go to bed now and have nightmares about being overfat.
Oooh, on second thought, Frontline is doing a special on undertakers next. That should provide some fabulous nightmare material.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
That’s silly. I’ll take sleeping over PBS any day. A friend of mine is trying to convince me I could run a half-marathon (she just did her first one). I’ve done 5Ks, but 13 or, even crazier, 26 miles? That’s just outside of my comprehension. Supposedly anyone can do it with the proper training (well, except perhaps for paraplegics). Hell, even Will Ferrell ran one and you saw how out of shape he was in Old School.
Yeah, there are different ways to describe the hefty people: overweight, overfat, and obese. I prefer to use the descriptions “pleasantly plump”, “chunky”, and “Daaaaamnnn you fat!”
I watch shows like “The Biggest Loser” and “Celebrity Fit Club” so I can feel good about not being fat. The news always has bits about health issues. It’s so depressing, which is why I don’t see any reason to watch it.
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:21 pm
I thought I couldn’t run long distances either until I joined the cross country team. It turns out, I can (sort of) run long distances. By long, I only mean 2 miles. I guess that doesn’t really compare to a marathon (but with a lot of practice, I’m sure it’s possible). Maybe you could try a half-marathon?