Tuesday 29 July 2014

Matronly, or is it body dismorphia?

The Mens Running Team before the TR24
29.07.2014
Day 108

Tuesday morning session with Erik, involving some shuttle runs, figure 8s, planks, ball slams, shoulder presses and underground.
It was an easy three-round circuit, as the old body was still complaining after Sunday. A 50k run is bound to have lasting repercussions.
Finally, a team photo of the Men's Running magazine team to show and tell; my phone for some reasondid not upload photos from the Thunder Run/
I like the adidas purple T-shirt, but am less than impressed with the matronly bosom. Having taken 16-year-old daughter shopping for her French holiday I have sent far too much time today sitting outside changing rooms and watching other perimenopausal women and their daughters at large round the shops.
It is depressing to see the rounded shoulders, beginnings of dowager upper back, the chest and belly merging into one fleshy, shapeless mass. As the hormones broil and bubble, the trunk seems to expand like one of my sourdough loaves during proving. The bosom shelves and the waist disappears. It's a toxic situation. Running of course can staythe expansion a little, but more work is needed, hence the Erik and Team Shape-U efforts.

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