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If you're a large woman in America, your whole life is an opportunity to feel self-conscious, embarrassed, resentful and way too big. You can hide in the corner or on the couch, you can go to therapy, or you can put on your lycra bike shorts and get out there and move.
—Jayne Williams, Slow Fat Triathlete

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January 22, 2005

Yeah, what he said, but about walking permalink

Walking is the ultimate individual sport. It doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not walking against anyone else. You're only walking against yourself, and as long as you are walking, you are winning.
—Amby Burfoot, RW executive editor and winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon

emphasis and word change mine (original said running, natch)

Posted at January 22, 2005

Comments

While reading that I was trying to fit different things in there; fishing, skiing, shooting, flying. Walking and running seemed to fit best.

Posted by: Jon in Michigan at January 22, 2005 2:06 PM