I often wonder what it’s like to run without boobs! I think, for women, there are two general categories; faster (less endowed) runners and slower (more endowed) runners! I fit into the latter and I really would like less when it comes to jamming them into the most ridiculously restrictive sports bras on the planet. Said bra has to be so supportive that you can’t even contort yourself to get into it without near-suffocation! And then when it is on, it pokes and cuts and rubs “the girls” who were never designed to withstand that much punishment…aside from breast feeding, but that’s another punishment altogether! So I’d really like to know what it feels like to run with an A or a B cup, and not a D! And before I even decided to do the race, I had been running off and on over the last 12 months in an effort to drop some weight. At the peak of my weight gain the girls were a DD/E.
It is a generalisation, as not every person fits a rule, but the less you have up top, the less you are likely to have all around. So if the cup size were smaller it makes sense that I’d be pounding the ground with less kgs altogether! Weight had never been an issue for me in my adult life, I felt lucky. Then I did IM and triathlon for a few years and started eating like a horse. That all stopped (abruptly) when I started working full time…my metabolism was so screwed up that before I knew it I’d gained over 17kgs. I really can’t believe it was that much now, even as I write it down. Since mum passed away I made an effort to look after my body more; not make excuses for inactivity. In that time I’ve lost close to 12 kgs and I finally have a body that I recognise.
My plans for the race include me shedding another 6 kgs as I’ve been doing a bit of reading about optimal body weights etc, and it takes a lot of energy to carry around those extra kgs…so I may as well shift them. In doing that I hope to drop my BMI to 20%; at the moment it is around 23%. I figure that weight will be lean enough to conserve my energy for motion, yet not too lean ensuring I have muscle and fat stores in reserve!
I thought it was about time I shared some of this more personal, yet important, detail if I was to give a true idea of where I started in this process, on this journey. I certainly am not overweight, but I’m not super-fit or skinny either. As least when I lose a bit more weight, “the girls” might shrink and the sports bra battle might become less of a challenge each time I need to contain their vertical movement! When I took the bra off on Thursday there was blood on it; the poor girls had been rubbed raw! And in retrospect, I’d rather run with boobs, than have to contend with other bits bouncing on the run!!!
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