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The Walrus 'n' Budgie Show [friends only]
A while back I bought a pair of speedos, partly because big swimmies are awkward under wetsuits, and partly as a "yay, I iz buff n stuff" indulgence. One look later and they went to the bottom of the kitbox never to come out. Yeesh, boy, what were you thinking?
This month, TriTalk have an easy training challenge: 20 swims in 30 days. After day one, all psyched to get down and do this, a kit malfunction took my regular swimmies, bike-shorts (ie, modest, unscary) jammers out of use. It was default on day two or brave the budgie smugglers. If you don't grok bodyimagehorror, (1) you lucky git and (2) this will seem dumb. We're talking the Fear, and summoning up invisible friends to pep-talk me into the pool, the works.
Irony is, the early-morning crowd are all lane-core hard cases who don't even notice, let alone give a damn, and budgie smugglers are actually really good to swim in. Bah.
Aristotle believed that moral character was imbued by performing character-building actions: fake it til you make it. I think the old Greek was close to the mark, especially for stuff like this. Bodyimagehorror (there's got to be a huge German word for it) is a seeping thing that grows under introspection but can be bludgeoned out of the way by repeated ballsy stuff. So, head down, and fuck 'em if they can't cope with the walrus 'n' budgie show.
This month, TriTalk have an easy training challenge: 20 swims in 30 days. After day one, all psyched to get down and do this, a kit malfunction took my regular swimmies, bike-shorts (ie, modest, unscary) jammers out of use. It was default on day two or brave the budgie smugglers. If you don't grok bodyimagehorror, (1) you lucky git and (2) this will seem dumb. We're talking the Fear, and summoning up invisible friends to pep-talk me into the pool, the works.
Irony is, the early-morning crowd are all lane-core hard cases who don't even notice, let alone give a damn, and budgie smugglers are actually really good to swim in. Bah.
Aristotle believed that moral character was imbued by performing character-building actions: fake it til you make it. I think the old Greek was close to the mark, especially for stuff like this. Bodyimagehorror (there's got to be a huge German word for it) is a seeping thing that grows under introspection but can be bludgeoned out of the way by repeated ballsy stuff. So, head down, and fuck 'em if they can't cope with the walrus 'n' budgie show.