Cheap Fitflops nd change in time to make it back before the warden started scribbling

it's most certainly in the eye of the kettle bell holder

I'm not only referring to the exposure of sausage legs, tomato face and porridge y bottom during my jogging romps through the more densely populated parts of Leeds (although if I added any more ingredients to that list I'd basically BE a full English).

It's also the multitudinous opportunities to make a fool of myself.

Like the time I went for a morning swim two days into a new job and spotted a traffic warden through the swimming pool window, moving menacingly towards my car.

Already heading towards my time limit (I like to take the 'crawl' part literally) there was no way I could shower a Cheap Fitflops nd change in time to make it back before the warden started scribbling.

So before you could say 'Rebecca Adlington' I was out of that pool and hopping towards the kerb, wrapped in a towel and dragging one sandal and my bag of stuff behind me.

Despite the dangerous flapping of the towel in the breeze, I felt a burst of triumph.

Until I remembered that, with no more money to feed the meter, I would have to go to work.

At my new job.

Wearing a towel.

Driving through rush hour traffic wasn't so bad. Lots of people wear all sorts of things to work.

And I was sure the car seat would dry out eventually.

But the part where I had to get out of the car and walk through the (large, open plan, heavily populated) office to get dressed in the toiletswell, let's draw a veil over that.

Whether it's forgetting to remove my cycle helmet after I took the bus instead of the bike to work (after a 20 minute journey and a lengthy walk through one of the trendier parts of London, my boss was curious as to why I needed to protect my head so thoroughly), or nearly knocking myself out with a kettle bell (try explaining that in A over the years I have learnt to embrace the embarrassment of sports related faux pas.

When people talk about feeling the burn, I know what they mean. But for me, that usually means a flame faced sense of shame.

Still, I exercise because I enjoy it, not to look good. And maybe by enjoying my body and not caring how I look, I can find a way of feeling happy with myself as I am instead of how I wish I was.

That's a difficult thing for a woman to achieve in our looks obsessed society, where a survey by Dove cosmetics found that seven per cent of women couldn't name a single thing about themselves that was beautiful.

But when I've got a potentially lethal kettle bell in each hand, no matter how purple my face might be, I'd defy anyone to tell me I'm not beautiful.

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