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This week Jen asks: What is one thing that your blog readers probably do not know about you?
This is a mildly difficult question to answer, because I have been fairly open about most of the somewhat unusual things about me. Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time would know that I am a lawyer, I work for the Federal government, I lived in Africa for several years, I went to a boarding school for high school, and I hold a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
I suppose I will go with the thing that surprises people the most in real life, which is that I was a fairly serious athlete in high school, although I was a fairly monomaniacal one. I earned seven varsity letters in high school, all in cross-country or track, and I was All-State in cross-country my 6th form year.
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Cool on being an athlete. I love this question this week.
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Elizabeth
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@Elizabeth: The truly odd thing is that at the time I didn't think of myself as an athlete. I didn't play football. I didn't play basketball. I wasn't really good at many sports. I was a runner. It wasn't until I got together with my high school roommates a couple years later and one of them was listing our "roles", and he said "And Aaron was the jock in the group" that I really thought about it.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I was pretty obsessive about running. I would go out on weekends and run ten or eleven mile courses on my own. For track season I bought spikes - and what in the world did I need spikes for? The shortest distance I competed at was the 800, and that was only as part of the 4 x 800 relay team. Anyway, the thing is, looking back, I guess I was a serious athlete, but at the time, I simply didn't see myself as one.
@Hide Villa: Thank you. I try to make it as interesting as I can. I hope you enjoy it.
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