She's going the distance

[discountsatori]

I was driving home from work one day last week when I saw my hero: a lean, bald-spotted man in gray cotton t-shirt and shorts, running down the side of the street while carrying an orange garbage bag in his right hand. Every time he came across any litter, he leaned over to pick it up. He had the luxury of possessing really long limbs, so bending

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[thineownself]

Unsurprisingly, I recommend karate! Pretty much everything you said about boxing is also true for karate.
:)

[discountsatori]

Sounds good! I don't know if this is popular elsewhere, but in the States there are a lot of classes that combine boxing techniques and martial arts techniques. I'm thinking of trying something like that....

[five_speed]

I always thought tennis was the same way. It has a reputation for being a rich person's sport in which you have to wear skirts and stuff, but you're basically using every muscle in your body -- and your brain -- for hours on end. Playing four hours of tennis is just as brutal as running a marathon.

[matinee]

all this talk about running and boxing and upper body definition is seriously motivating, laurie. =)

[cold_cold_water]

what else came up besides new jersey -- spill! also i second someone else's question..did you change your last name? i remember vaguely you saying something about how you didn't, but i'm not sure...

[grapefruitmoon]

Swimming is also excellent for working every single muscle group at once, especially if you vary strokes (though I admittedly never ever do). However, it does lack that certain je ne sais quoi that comes with beating people up.

[discountsatori]

I would love to be a better swimmer. It involves fewer sweaty t-shirts than everything I currently do! I'm pretty uncoordinated in the water, and I admire people (you) for whom swimming is easy and fun. Maybe one day....

Oh, and welcome home!

[grapefruitmoon]

Thanks :) Yeah, I'm one of those smug people who learned to swim before she learned how to walk. Kári says that I'm the only person he knows who is faster in the water than on land.

(I'm a fast swimmer, but I also can't run due to an old ankle injury.)