Forty-five minutes later, I'm back at home and on the couch with my laptop before I make breakfast. Then I notice, not for the first time, that my post-exercise legs are experiencing little jolts all around the outsides of them. They feel like mini earthquakes all over my legs, but mostly in the area above the knees. What is this? Is my cellulite protesting the exercise? Are my veins pumping extra hard? Are the muscle cells and fat cells battling over territory?
And I can't help but compare it to a car. Maybe the car is old, or maybe it's quite cold outside, but we've all heard it. You get home from running errands and you turn the car off. Even though the engine is no longer running, you hear little clicks and hisses coming from under the hood that stick around for a few minutes.
So that's me. And my engine legs.
