speechless

I'm really rarely at a loss for words right? Mr Motor Mouth right? Talk right the hell up to the point when it seems i'm about to do my Omaha beach impression.

So Dr. Flats-a-Lot and I were talking while warming up on the trainer before the race yesterday. Across the parking lot Giulia was getting ready. So Dr Flats mentions something about this infamous Keith Kelly guy being 6'5" and 155 pounds. Now I was taking aback, I was expecting him to be some short skinny Irishman runner build. That was me in High School when I was running XC. I said as much and said man I'm too fat or something to that effect.

Giulia, hearing this, pipes in, "FAT? You're wearing a skinsuit and talking about being FAT?" (or something like that).

I didn't have a retort. Nothing to fire back at that moment. Both caught off guard by the cross parking lot quip and the verity of the statement, well, all I was able to stammer when I recovered, "compared to my College self (6'6" and 165#) i am fat." Although really i'm not i guess, i just put on some muscles compared to that twig 16-20 years ago that I was.

I was so flustered that I don't really actually remember exactly what she said. But it was funny.

And true... us male bike racers all thing we are way too fat - except we aren't. We gotta work on that, both being thinner AND not saying we are fat.

G