Yeah, I sweat a lot.

[davywavy]

The gym I go to is quite a popular one and is used by several celebrities - including Daley Thompson and John McVicar, both of whom are insanely fit for their age and provide a glowing example of what can be done with a lot of free time and an obsession bordering on psychosis.
With people like them as exemplars, every so often I start thinking that all this time I spend in the gym might be paying off. I only think this briefly before my hubris is once again punctured.

Out on the running track last night I was puffing and wheezing along when I was first overtaken and then actually lapped by a man with one leg.

I have to wonder why I bother.

Comments

Ooh, I'm going to be the first to say it

[(Anonymous)]

I bet you were hopping mad!!

Ho ho

H

Re: Ooh, I'm going to be the first to say it

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Really, I didn't have a leg to stand on.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

They ran circles around you.

Re: Ooh, I'm going to be the first to say it

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

There goes my audition for Footloose.

Re: Ooh, I'm going to be the first to say it

[(Anonymous)]

Never mind, David! Best foot forward

H

Re: Ooh, I'm going to be the first to say it

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I'm stumped at what to do next.

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[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Boris Johnson was on Question Time last night!

Re: Ooh, I'm going to be the first to say it

[(Anonymous)]

He's infallible.

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Like the pope, but better.

[applez.livejournal.com]

Are we talking Hopalong Cassidy or The $6 Millon Man?

(It's all about to what degree of wonderment of why you bother)

[gnommi.livejournal.com]

but if you only have one leg, you only need to move half the weight that you would if you had one leg right (in leg terms)?

therefore it must be less effort to run with one leg than with two.

(i know i know, i'm being facetious again)

[applez.livejournal.com]

Careful, this almost sounds like a call for a Zed and Two Noughts-style experiment!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I suspect, given the clip he was going at, that he was a paralympian in training. But the absurdity of being overtaken by a paraplegic tickled me.