I don't know if anyone else in the world thinks about Uta Pippig as much has I do. Maybe because I lived in Boston in 1996 and I saw what HAPPENED with my own eyes.
See, on the morning of the Boston Marathon, Uta woke up with some terrible digestive and "female" issues, but being a hearty German and having traveled so far, she thought, "Screw it, I'm going to run ths marathon ANYWAY."
She was the female leader throughout the race, as I recall, and she WON the whole thing. But as the cameras followed her throughout the race, well, let's just say that it was apparent to all of the viewers that Uta was, um... leaking. She didn't care, she just ran it, the whole world watching as she just kept her pace and the scene became grosser and grosser.
I thought of Uta again this morning, in my own obsessive way, because I feel a huge desire to go running again. I'm not allowed to use the usual feminine protection, but I feel fine and energetic, and FLABBY. So I want to go out there and jog all the flab and the worries off. But what if I... leak?
Well, if I do, too bad! This one's for you, Uta!
1 comments:
Well, hey, at least we know she was healthy. I mean, heck, you hear sometimes about how those 'extreme' athletes (marathoners, gymnasts, etc.) train so hard and lose so much weight that they typically have amenorrhea. But not good old Uta, huh? (I never heard of her, but the name...made me think of uterus kinda automatically.)
Hope that if you managed to get out and hit the pavement, you managed to avoid a Uta-esque malfunction. :-) And that the burn felt good....
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