• NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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    9 days ago

    Ooof. I still remember when I was wearing as little as socially acceptable to go for a run because it was blazing hot… and some other folks running past me commented loudly enough for me to hear it that I (paraphrasing because it’s been a while) wasn’t in shape enough to show that much skin.

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      Bloody hell, fuck those people. I’m sorry that happened! There can be wild judgement from people who seem to forget we all have to start from somewhere.

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      Those people aren’t mature enough to be out in society. Seriously, humans need dog-like socialization classes to learn how to behave around other humans.

      I’m sorry that happened, but I hope you stuck with the healthy thing you were doing because its good for you, and didn’t let some assholes get in your head.

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        I hated running then, and I hate it now. Everyone should take up better forms of cardio, like skiing, biking, rowing, or typing long replies on lemmy.

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          9 days ago

          I came to a similar insight about running - I could never make cardio stick until I picked up biking which I truly enjoyed doing.

          I’ve since come around and started liking running, however

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    I hate running but I’m good at it. In high school our PE teacher, also the track coach, made us run a mile and timed us. At the end of the semester we’d have to do it again to see how we improved. I was the first done by a pretty good margin and he tried to get me to join our track team. I explained the only reason I ran fast was to get the experience over with as quickly as possible.