"Not A Real Athlete"?!?!

[Dianyla]

By ManFriend, do you mean your current Significant Other?

Ah, yes, that's who I mean.

I'm not sure I still have the balls to claim "athlete" for myself (never considered myself a sports gal and still have identity issues surrounding that!) but he sure would argue against me if he knew that's what I think.

I thought about that too, whether I feel comfortable with the term athlete. I kind of do and I kind of don't. If I think in terms of Lance Armstrong, then in no way am I an athlete! But if I think in terms of the average couch potato, then maybe I am. I would definitely consider myself athletic, though. His definition of athlete that explains why he obviously is an athlete and I am clearly not an athlete is that an athlete is someone who plays "real sports" (i.e. team sports that involve a ball). Um, ok.