From the halls of Urban Active to the shores of the Great Miami

There are certain skills that a normal person aquires during their childhood, which for some reason or another I never mastered. While I can repair a watch, teach people to ski and row, or work some mojo with t-sql... sadly, I never learned to hula hoop or jump rope :( While this has impacted my professional career several times, today my weaknesses were exposed in a social setting. I was attending my EverBODIES Bootcamp class at Urban Active, when the instructor set up stations. At one of the stations was the dreaded ropes. I tried my best, but for two minutes the focus of the entire class was on me and my inability to jump rope :(

This was not the worst of tonight's bootcamp, however. On Tuesday of this week I went for a row in Hamilton. The river had dropped since the last time a boat was launched so we had to push the floating dock further out into the river. While pushing the dock out I got quite a bit of river mud on my shoes. I had forgotten about this until I happened to noticed a muddy footprint on the fitness instructor's pants. I recognized the tread pattern as being from my shoe, but did not remember stepping on her. I then looked around and noticed there were bits of mud scattered all across the hardwood floor of the classroom. What's worse, nearly everyone in the class had Great Miami River mud marks on their clothes. It was as if Pig Pen from Charlie Brown was in the class. Who knows how many people I accidentally infected with Hepatitis A, B, and or C :(