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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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September 12, 2005

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Boat on N. CrawfordI had a nice bike ride in this morning. It's amazing to me how restorative these rides are. I had a bad night's sleep, I'm in a funk, but for the 20 minutes of my ride, everything is going to come out okay.

Yesterday, my sweetie and I decided to scooter part of the route for Portland to Coast. We got a couple miles into my leg, leg 20, and once we hit the gravel road, decided to turn back. What's scary is that I really don't remember walking the route. I remember looking out the window of the van, but, my first leg -- not bloody much.

Incredible. This was just a couple weeks ago.

Perhaps the highlight of the ride, however, was coming across this skeleton of a boat beneath the St. Johns Bridge.

Posted at September 12, 2005

Comments

There are days I really wish I could just walk for 8 hours because exercise creates such a wonderful sense of peace.

Posted by: neca at September 12, 2005 11:25 AM

Hi, I just wanted to say, I am also large, and have a lot of weight to lose. So far I have lost 93 pounds. I still have a ways to go. BUT, I have something else in common with you, CLUTTERED house! I hav efound flylady.net to help tremendously. I also see the deffinate relationship between my obesity and my clutter! Both are starting to get out of here little by little. But, it's a slow up hill battle, and deffinately emotional, but every day that goes by, things get easier and easier, and I peel back more and more layers of my emotions, and get these worked out. Amazing how weight loss, and clutter and emotions are all tied together!

Posted by: Heather at September 12, 2005 1:24 PM