Last night I stayed on the phone with my sister, who lives in Charlotte, watching the US girls take gold and silver in gymnastics. We watched all the way through to the medals ceremony. It reminded me of when we were younger and would be glued to the TV watching Mary Lou Retton. My sister wanted to be a gymnast, while I wanted to be a ballerina. Neither of us ever took classes, but we just knew that was what we wanted to do.
On a pretty much unrelated note, although it does have to do with being somewhat athletic, I am running my first race in 5 years tomorrow. Well, it's more like jogging, but tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. I will lace up my new (expensive, in my opinion) running shoes that I bought at an actual specialty running shop with a sales person that actually seemed to know what he was talking about and run 3.2 miles. I'm excited because for the first time ever when I race I will have actually ran the requisite mileage prior to the race :) I am feeling so much better since I've started working out and truly enjoying the running, as well as the time I am spending with friends. It's nice to be hanging out with friends and not having it revolve around food. Although, tonight, in honor of our race, however short it may be, we will be carbo-loading, because we have heard that's what racers do.
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