Endurance sports have never been my forte.
I was a gymnast, then when my body gave out at the ripe age of 13, a high school and college springboard diver. The swim coach at Hotchkiss spent four years trying to get me to join the medley relay, but staring at the bottom of a pool while drowning never sounded appealing. It still doesn't. I like the challenge of convincing my body to try something new. After college, I graduated from diving to yoga and wakeboarding (with a NYC interlude of cocktail chugging).
Why then have I spent most of my waking moments over the last three months (outside the office) pursuing an endurance sport- pushing myself to walk, run, hike longer, faster, harder?
BEATS ME.
I went back to my favorite yoga class for the first time in three months this morning. I had almost forgotten just how much I love handstands and backbends.
Wonder what Sam would say if I asked to cartwheel across the Gobi?
Om.
I was a gymnast, then when my body gave out at the ripe age of 13, a high school and college springboard diver. The swim coach at Hotchkiss spent four years trying to get me to join the medley relay, but staring at the bottom of a pool while drowning never sounded appealing. It still doesn't. I like the challenge of convincing my body to try something new. After college, I graduated from diving to yoga and wakeboarding (with a NYC interlude of cocktail chugging).
Why then have I spent most of my waking moments over the last three months (outside the office) pursuing an endurance sport- pushing myself to walk, run, hike longer, faster, harder?
BEATS ME.
I went back to my favorite yoga class for the first time in three months this morning. I had almost forgotten just how much I love handstands and backbends.
Wonder what Sam would say if I asked to cartwheel across the Gobi?
Om.
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