Exercise Goals for 2009

As for the idjits. Wellll

I have opinions about that.

There are people, many, many people, who do not feel good about themselves unless they can point out that somehow they are superior or elite or better than others. Hear them:

Oh, I've never been fat.
I would never let myself get that way.
I've always been an athlete.
I don't take time off.
I work hard every day, unlike some people.
I would never turn to "cheating" for weight loss, like surgery or drugs.
I do it the all-natural vegan macrobiotic low carb Scarsdale Diet watch the glycemic index way.
I only eat lettuce and oatmeal. For a snack, I have a raisin.

Etc. etc. etc.

They wanna feel that way, by putting me and my kind down? Try living my life for a moment. Go through your gifted lives with a thyroid that's been quitting for the last 2 decades. Do it with serious obesity on one side of your family, as in, in the '70s, before you saw a lot of seriously obese people, that was already my family's experience (and now the ones who are still alive are even larger). Try shopping at the fun stores where I've been, and do it on a budget, even though lousy quality clothes cost more because there's more fabric.

Or live the lives of some of the people here on {the diet website I go to}. Try cooking for picky people, or those with food allergies or other conditions and still stay within guidelines. Try getting in exercise when you're working 50 hour weeks every week. Try keeping a positive mental attitude when you've been out of work for God knows how long. Try exercising with arthritis, fibromylagia, or as a cancer survivor, or in a wheelchair.

Oh and do it with extra weights strapped on you, and not in an easy to carry place like your back, but where we've all carried it, places like the belly, the thighs and the keister, and throw off your center of gravity and your stride.

Try that, Mr. and Ms. Elite Runner Snob who will never get sick, never get fat, never get old, never lose their job, never have personal pain, never end their marriage, never suffer loss and never be bereaved. Wanna be elite? Then qualify for the Olympics, ya creampuffs. And stick your attitudes in your light carbon thin steel eco water bottles where the sun don't shine.

And stick your attitudes in your light carbon thin steel eco water
bottles where the sun don't shine.

1/2 Marathon 1:58:37 9:04 Staten Is 1/2 10/11/2009

If anyone wants to follow my progress, or lack thereof, during the marathon,
go to this site and register.

Hey.
If anyone wants to follow my progress, or lack thereof, during the marathon, go to this site and register.
I am runner 46410.
(I have it tattooed on my forehead.)

http://athletealert.ingnycmarathon.org/Alerts.aspx

Joe(it will help knowing that you are watching.)Nation