The Quest for the Perfect ExerGame

Physical exertion to me is almost as natural to me as breathing, but I had always wondered what it feels like to have an aversion to exercise. Well for the past four days anything more than the slightest exertion outside results in profuse perspiration. Walking up steps becomes a real chore as your try to lift your legs against the force of your trousers sticking to your skin.

Having adopted a rather slothful attitude (minus the fur and hanging up-side-down) exertion avoidance was very much becoming the norm. Given the time difference (-7 hours), I haven’t been sleeping all that well and awoke at 5 am this morning and was rather restless. Fortunately it was still dark so I put on my running gear and headed out into the dark with only crickets for company.

I decided a lap of the National University of Singapore was in order. However the heat wasn’t my only problem. I had carefully placed the campus map I had in a plastic pocket in order to prevent it from turning to mush. Due to the fact that the roads on the map where effectively shown in white, the map was in fact of questionable value. I would hate to play an ExerGame designed by a cartographer with such a sadistic streak.

Given that I have managed to write this post, you will be glad to know I made it back without getting lost. I even had a momentary urge to take a detour to run to the top of a small hill. At one point there was a slight breeze as I could here it whistling past my ears, but rather bizarrely I couldn’t feel any cooling effect on my face.