New shoes! New shoes! I finally purchased new running shoes!
New fuel belt! New fuel belt! I finally purchase a new fuel belt!
For my non-running readers, go ahead and laugh, but those things were desperately needed. My old shoes, purchased in APRIL, have seen only 1 10K, 1 marathon and 1 5k, but plenty o'miles in between. And, as the Houston runners can attest to, Memorial Park and Rice University are not nice on the running shoes (can we say "DIRT"??). And as for the fuel belt, my other one was over a year and a half old and so over-used that the velcro wasn't working as well, and during my run the thing would just fall off. Annoying!
So I went to Luke's Locker (my shoe shop of choice) and happily spent too much money on a pair of running shoes and a fuel belt. I'm so excited!! As soon as my tummy settles from lunch, I'm going to go back to the gym and do 2 miles on the treadmill to begin the break-in process. I'm still going to use my old shoes for my weekly runs, but I'm going to start to incorporate my new shoes into my long runs and treadmill runs so that they'll be nice and broken in by the VA Beach RNR half next month. Then, once the race is over, I'll run around Memorial and Rice with them (call me a girl, but remember I don't like to get them too dirty before a race).
Oh, and for those of you who said they didn't get the pun from yesterday's entry...
In the 1800s, Jonathan Swift, an Irish writer, wrote a satire called "A Modest Proposal," which was making fun of the British, who hated the Irish and wanted to control them. Swift suggested that the Irish population be controlled by eating children. So when Andrew said something about eating children, that's the first thing that popped into my mind.
Andy got it. But then, he's an English teacher. I guess this would be classified as "English teacher humor."
I am a geek.
Cheers!
3 comments:
I DO NOT feel dumb for not getting that one. That qualifies as an inside joke in my opinion. Thanks for the clarification. LOL!!!
Love the teacher humor. Love hearing very specific and limites humor.
I manage a running store and love the feeling when I customr gets that new tool (toy) for their running. Whether it is a bottle belt or camelback (or my favorite the 22 oz handheld bottles with handles) they also glow when they get a new or first heart rate monitor.
Love getting out with new runners as I set regualr meetings to go with them a talk chat while we go.
As a 6'7 270 runner- they have very few feelings of intimidation when we go out.
Not an elite runner here.
Ok, you are way too knowledgeable about random literature! ;)
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