You Don't Have a Runner's Body.

"I'm not saying your fat," said Doc, "but your a big girl, you just don't have a runners body."  WHAT?! This is what my Chiropractor said to me as I lay on the table waiting for him to adjust my apparently HUGE hips.  Then he proceeded to say, "What are you...about 130-135?"  REALLY?  I wanted to say "Oh yeah Doc, I'm 130...give or take 35 lbs."  Instead I just nodded my head.  If he thought 130 was too much weight for my 5'8" frame to handle, he would freak if he knew I was 160!  Thankfully, I'm confident enough with myself that I won't let his misguided comment turn me into an anorexic.
   I explained to Doc that I am fully aware that I will never place first in the Boston Marathon. That is not nor will it ever be my goal.  My goal is to do my personal best with the body I was given.  I don't have an "Elite" runners body, but I AM a runner, therefore my body IS a runner's body.  The elite runners are born to run.  I was born to breed. LOL!! That is now a joke between my hubby and I.
I probably sounded a little too defensive, but most of the women I know who run don't have the body of an "Elite" runner.  They are everyday women and mothers who run for sanity, for peace, and for the sense of accomplishment.
Truth be told.. I like by big Italian butt!

Much love to all my running friends and your rockin' bodies!!

Grace and peace,