but the thing i dislike the most is all kinds of group exercises, such as aerobics, body pumps, zumbas and whatever they have going on these days. i absolutely and utterly detest the brightly lit rooms with mirrors on the walls, being surrounded by women in tights to who i keep bumping into because of my complete lack of coordination and sense of rhythm. i don't think anyone particularly likes these things, but i can't get over them. i just can't.
i have tried -- i went to a kettle bell class a few times and even if i sort of liked the actual sport, i found the setting to be too much, especially when the warm-up of the class consisted of different kinds of aerobic hops -- in which i miserably failed. i have also been to a body pump class and even some kind of aerobics (well, that was a long time ago) and all of them were just bloody awful. the only group exercise i can bring myself to do is spinning, and i think this is largely because they turn the lights off during the class.
so i think part of the fascination of running comes from the solitude of it. when you run, nothing can really touch you -- you're in your own bubble of existence, and even if it crosses that of others, they don't really intersect with each other. i was thinking about that this morning when i was running through the center of helsinki, very empty at the time; that even if there are people around me, they are not in my mode; they can't get to me. i and them are in a different space, in a different rhythm; i don't exist to them and they don't to me.
and that, for me, is something i really need. in the end, i don't want to be forced to think or pay attention when i exercise; running gives this possibility, but it also allows for the complete opposite -- really thinking of something, should you so choose to. because it's only you at present.
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