Kiss My Knits!

Last night I did some reading online and decided that I should get a little more high tech with my clothing. While I love running in the Dunder Mifflin Fun Run shirt that came with my deluxe Office Season 5 DVD set, I think something that dissipates the heat might be a little more practical. You’ve all seen the picture of Tvini the Lobster Girl by now, so you know what I’m talkin’ about. I had wanted to run this morning, but since it was raining, it seemed like an ideal time to go ahead and pick up a new shirt. Of course it stopped while I was shopping. Sigh.

The difficulty in buying workout clothes when you’re fat is that, well, you’re fat. These clothes are made for people who are already fit. The first shirt I tried was a size large and fit me like a sausage casing. The problem wasn’t just my abdomen, it was my, we shall say, womanly physique. Don’t women with big bazooms run? I find that hard to believe. I tried a few more, and they all looked more or less like the illustration at right. That is, if someone had put silly putty across it and stretched it sideways. Jayne Williams wrote about this problem in her book Slow Fat Triathlete but she had it worse – she had to buy plus-sized athletic gear for triathlons. Yikes. I’ll stop complaining now.

I finally picked up this little number in an XL, and it didn’t look bad! Not too snug, not too baggy. Sold! By the time I got home, the rain had slowed to a faint drizzle, so I decided to take a chance in the off again on again weather. I went out, and of course I’d just gotten over the first hill when it started raining harder. Oh well. I was already in it, so I decided to stick it out. And thank goodness I had my shirt, because otherwise I would have been carrying about five extra pounds of water in the cotton of my regular T-shirt.


My reward upon getting home was a message from Nike.com when I uploaded my workout. “11 miles down. Now make it 100.”

Actually, now that I think about it, that was more of a threat than a reward.

I’m not, by the way, posting the little graph thingies for all of these runs. They all look about the same, so if you’ve seen one, you’ve pretty much seen them all. They’re public on my nike.com page, so I figure that’s enough to keep me motivated to run – if anybody were to stop by, they’d see if I were slacking off.

Anyway. I have one pair of good running shorts and one good running shirt, so maybe this week I’ll do a little shopping. I still need to figure out what to wear now that the weather’s cooling down.

It’s raining cats and dogs now. I may have gotten wet, but I’m very glad I went. Still, let’s hope it’s drier next time!