Thursday, October 30, 2014

Reasons I'm not hip...

1.  Running on campus, minding my own business, then all of a sudden a flurry of pink bandannas engulfed me and I was caught in the middle of some kind of chase or game.  I'm obviously not hip enough to know what this was about so instead of joining I made my way out of the catapulting bodies and kept going on my merry way to the gym.

2.  Guy wearing a hat that looked like a bear head and holding nunchucks (didn't even know how to spell this before today).  Wasn't sure if this was a pre Halloween costume or if this guys actually incorporated this into his gym workout.

3.  About 5-6 food trucks parked on campus all still running so there was a visible cloud of exhaust surrounding them as people stood around reading menus trying to decide which one to buy from.  I must not be hip enough for this because my first thought was get me out of this hell hole!

4.  I got "mam'd" at the gym the other day.  Excuse me but if you are asking to use the same machine as me with the same weights I don't think I should be mam'd :-)  but again more proof I'm not hip.

5.  I have no desire to get on Instagram, am barely ever on Twitter, only use FB to post pictures of my son now and don't even ask me about all the new sites and apps that are popping up every day, how am I blogging you ask?  That's a good question, but I don't have many followers so this is basically an online journal for myself, see not hip!

6.  I have been known to run in an old pair of boxers I bought at a ski area back in the 90s and yes I still run in cotton shirts and it doesn't bother me.  The only "hip" exercise clothes I might own is because the lululemon people see how I'm dressed at local races and feel so sorry for me they give me a coupon for a free article of exercise clothing, yes this has happened to me more than once. 

I can accept this and embrace it and am so happy that I don't give a @#*!*@ what people think about me, who says it's not great getting old! :-)


On a little more serious note the person who works for me has been in a bike accident.  I feel so bad for her she broke both elbows and will have to get surgery next week!  In a moment of panic trying to avoid something she slammed on her brakes and went over the front of her handle bars.  I hope she has a speedy recovery and doesn't worry about the work she is leaving me with.  I can handle it I just have to prioritize and know some things will have to sit on the back burner until late December when she will be back.  In the meantime I'm trying to multi task so that I can still get some workouts in even with a heavy workload.  So I had to take some stuff around campus and figured might as well do this in running shoes get a run in at the same time and avoid getting parking tickets!

Happy Training and Stay Safe!!

2 comments:

Christy @ My Dirt Road Anthem: A Runner's Blog said...

I am with you, I no longer give a rats ass about what other people think about me. I love it. so freeing.

hope your co worker heals up fast!

Carolina John said...

Cotton is rotten! I have no idea what the pink this is either, and would have visibly freaked out much worse if something like that suddenly surrounded me. how weird?