Somehow my husband has become an athlete. He runs five kilometers at lunch and drinks protein shakes for breakfast. He makes huge pots of beans-and-rice-and-veggies that he eats for days at a time. He lifts weights, though he’s always done this. But what’s new is the running. And what is it with people who run?: they like to talk about running all the time. As if it were somehow an interesting topic.
While this is all well and good for him, and his heart I guess, I wish he would cut down on all this exercising and eating right and sit around eating a little more butter. He’s getting positively skinny. I don’t like to weigh more than he does! Plus, I’m, um, well, just not that into skinny guys.
Thankfully I still find Husband quite attractive. Especially this one thing he does when he’s cooking: he’ll stand over the stove, stirring something with one hand, resting the elbow of his other arm up on the range fan, beer dangling casually from that hand. It is HOT I tell you, just irresistible. The very thought of it…actually, he’s cooking right now, so I’m gonna go run in there, and, you know, watch. (That’s the only kind of running that interests me.)

24 April 2008 at 7:16 pm
I don’t understand running either. The only time I run is if my life is in danger.
24 April 2008 at 10:34 pm
I don’t know why runners (me included) like to talk about running so much. I think because it really can give you sort of a high, during and after. And we are zealots, we runners. We PROSELYTIZE. It’s not the religious you should be worried about. It’s the RUNNERS.
24 April 2008 at 10:39 pm
Ha!
I was thinking maybe it’s because running is so solitary, so you have all these pent-up thoughts you’ve been ruminating on about running while running that you have to share and that’s why you all talk so much about it.
What’s weird is he says he hates actually running, but he just loves the feeling after. I tried to explain to him that it’s endorphins and he could get the same thing from eating chocolate, but he prefers to exercise. Weird.
25 April 2008 at 6:07 am
LOL – the perfect part of that post was the beer.
25 April 2008 at 6:51 am
Right, the beer-drinking has certainly not been affected by the running.
25 April 2008 at 7:49 am
I agree with Caro-you do get a natural kind of high after a good run. My DH used to bore me with all his talk about running. Now I run too and I talk about it all the time!
25 April 2008 at 11:29 am
My hubby runs marathons. I don’t get it. I like running maybe 3 to 5 miles but running 26.2 miles is crazy. He runs all year round and now that it is spring he will run for 2 hours 5 times a week.
25 April 2008 at 4:01 pm
LOL, love the image. But I’m with your husband on this one.
25 April 2008 at 7:47 pm
What is up with all of your readers? Does everyone LOVE to run? Then, why are all Americans so fat?
25 April 2008 at 7:58 pm
Apparently I have a uniquely athletic readership. I can’t imagine why. I have never written anything pro-exercise.