Welcome to Wednesday Word, a monthly linkup for everyone, not just health and fitness bloggers. On the first Wednesday of every month you will have a single word prompt to write about. Let your imagination run free and share with your readers your interpretation of that word, or simply use it as inspiration for your post. Today’s word is nimble… I’d love to have you link up, and if you do, please remember to follow my six simple rules.
Nimble
Quick and light in motion;
Marked by quick, alert, clever conception,
comprehension, or resourcefulness
~ Merriam-Webster
Once I’d mastered the marathon, friends asked if a triathlon was next on my horizon. Apparently they didn’t know me very well…
When I was younger (in my forties), I always said that you could point me in a direction and I could run forever. I had amazing cardiovascular endurance and ran many of my marathons at a pretty decent clip. Even though I didn’t really regard myself as such, I suppose you could say I was nimble. Perhaps I really did look like the runner on the top of this meme, even though my self-deprecation style of humor has me thinking I looked more like the little girl on the bottom. 😉
Sooo, I’ll admit that I was a nimble runner. I’ll even allow that I’m still pretty nimble when out on the running trail, but…
Ask me to swim the length of the pool, and I will clumsily fight the water every stoke of the way.
Suggest that I bike, and I will awkwardly spend most of my time in the wrong gear trying to figure out why I’m working so hard, yet going so slowly.
Put me in an aerobics class, and I will lumber around until I accidentally backhand a neighbor.
Ask me to dance, and I will look as stiff as the Tin Man – with two left feet.
Watch me do a yoga routine, and you will see me slowly and creakily transition from pose to pose while using blocks to make up for my lack of flexibility.
But at least I try… I may not be overly nimble and skillful when doing these other sports, but at least I try…
Do you consider yourself nimble?
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Why do people assume that because you’ve run a marathon, a triathlon is next? Ugh. I don’t like to swim, at least competitively! And the open water scares me!
Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home recently posted…Just Call Me Grace: The Not-So-Nimble Runner
Exactly! I fight the water like no other and would totally freak out in open water with people swimming all around me.
Ha ha ha…I can relate to everything mentioned above. Amazingly, I have not fallen much while running…key word: much LOL
Kimberly Hatting recently posted…Kim be nimble, Kim be quick…
Knock on wood, I haven’t fallen while running in quite a while.
Definitely NOT nimble.
Running is my sport – no biking, swimming and not very good at yoga.
Darlene recently posted…Wednesday Word: Nimble
It’s good we have running, isn’t it?
I bet you would crush a tri come join me this summer for one!
Deborah @ Confessions of a mother runner recently posted…My Full Body Get It Done Strength Training + Giveaway
I would still be fighting the water as you crossed the finish line! LOL
One could argue that I was nimble. The operative word being WAS. I come from a figure skating/dance/yoga background. That said, I’m just back to yoga after a 3-month layoff. Nimble does not live here!
Marcia recently posted…February Progress Report
Since you were once nimble, I’m sure it will come back quickly!
I am relatively flexible, but nimble? Definitely not. No tris for me, either, thank you — forgetting the massive amounts of training that must be done, I just don’t bike. I did learn as a kid but it didn’t take. Biking scares me.
I do love to swim, but I’m not a good swimmer. I mean, I can swim slowly forever & enjoy it — but it ain’t pretty.
Judy @ Chocolaterunsjudy recently posted…Running Keeps Our Minds Nimble
When we lived in Utah, I was biking across campus one morning and the irrigation came on and I was drilled in the face with a blast of water. It startled me so much that I fell off my bike and separated my shoulder. Needless to say, I have mad respect for what can happen (and quickly) when biking!
I don’t consider my body to be nimble. And, I’m certainly not a good swimmer either. But, I try in the Tri anyway. I know I will get there, it just takes me forever. I do consider myself nimble of mind though! Thanks for the linkup.
Nimble of mind – that’s excellent! I’m not so sure I can still say that at my age, though. HaHa! 😀
Oh goodness I am such a clumsy mess. It is a good run if I don’t roll an ankle by almost tripping. However, I love it anyway so I guess that is all that matters.
Exactly! Our love for running is really all that matters. 🙂
Runners love to run. Swimming is what some of us have to do to rehab….so we can run some more. I’ll do triathlons, but only because I’m not ready for long runs. Nimble, only by necessity.
It’s great that you can swim as you rehab. I’d create a shoulder injury in the process…