{"id":407,"date":"2009-06-06T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2009-06-06T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T16:28:41","slug":"being-an-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/06\/being-an-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Being an Athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I was called athletic today.<\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong, I love<\/em> being called that. Tickles the hell out of me. But I really don’t see myself that way.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, I know, what else does being an athlete require but spending some time on a sport on a regular basis?<\/p>\n

I’ve mused on this<\/a> before, but I still haven’t internalized the idea that I wanted to — that being an athlete merely requires something physical you love and do<\/em> on a relatively frequent basis.\u00a0 I mean, I just swam over a mile today!<\/p>\n

Am I a great <\/em>athlete?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Am I even a fast <\/em>swimmer?\u00a0 Hell, no!<\/p>\n

I think part of it is that I do sometimes slog through a swim.\u00a0 Goodness knows I did today.\u00a0 I was constantly telling myself, “C’mon.\u00a0 You decided to put in a 2,000 today.\u00a0 Just keep doing it.\u00a0 You’ve got one more length in you.”\u00a0\u00a0 This was not one of those glorious swims where I feel like a god. (Though I like those a lot better).<\/p>\n

Now, a lot of why I’m doing the 50 mile swim is because I’ll get a t-shirt at the end of it that I intend to wear when I’m working the front desk at the gym.\u00a0 So very often women built like me are scared to come to the gym.\u00a0 They’re scared their goals won’t be listened to.\u00a0 They’re scared of being judged.\u00a0 The gym I go to is about getting moving on a regular basis and not about getting down to 12% body fat, but there are gyms that feel otherwise about it, and goodness knows that can put someone off.<\/p>\n

Although maybe I’ll be taking away hope when I prove that exercise doesn’t automagically make you skinny.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was called athletic today. Now don’t get me wrong, I love being called that. Tickles the hell out of me. But I really don’t see myself that way.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, I know, what else does being an athlete require but spending some time on a sport on a regular basis? I’ve mused on this … <\/p>\n

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