THE RUNNING EDITION
These are my current shoes:
They’re saucony powergrid hurricane 14s. I love them except that they are so *&^!@ng pink. I hate pink.
They cost me $192.09 (I checked the receipt) at the Running Room. When I went to the Go! St. Louis Marathon expo I bought a pair for $90. Seriously? They only had one pair left in my size so I only bought one pair. Another friend bought me a pair that were on sale at a US outlet. Even with shipping them from the US they still cost less than $100. I have no idea why they’re so much more up here.
I also wonder how much my feet will change as I lose weight. They definitely changed when I had Q. I used to be an 8 – 8.5. Now I’m a 9. And my running shoes are a 9.5.
This is my RoadID.
It has my name, blood type, the fact that I don’t have any drug allergies and Toby’s cell number and my parents’ phone number. If anything should happen to me when I’m out running, this will be able to let the paramedics or whoever at least know a little bit about me and be able to contact someone who knows it all.
This is my garmin
Well. It started out as Toby’s but mine died so he gave me his 🙂 I am slightly addicted to it but man do I love it. I run 10:1s. So I run for 10 minutes then walk for a minute. Not sure why, it just seems to work for me. I always run with water and I drink, even just a sip, during the walk minutes. I download all the runs to the garmin command centre or something BUT I also download them to Running Ahead. My uncle told me about Running Ahead back when I first started to run in 2009. It has easy-to-use features for logging runs, setting out training plans, tracking equipment etc. The forums are really amazing too. You’ll always find someone who is able to help. Often that person also happens to be a sub-3:00 marathoner, or a medical doctor, or an ultra-runner, or….well you get the idea. There are also sub-groups so if you’re training for a half-marathon or want to find runners in your area you can find a sub-group. I joined a sub-group back in 2009 made up of an amazing bunch of women, without whom, I would have given up this running thing long ago. They put up with me in 2010 and 2011 and heck most of 2012 when I was pregnant and couldn’t run (2010), when I had a baby and was too tired to run (2011), and when, well I thought I was too fat to run and it turns out I was just too lazy (2012). They were amongst the first people I told I was pregnant. They encourage, they goad, they kick my butt. You’ll hear more about them when I get around to writing a race report for my half in St. Louis.
Oh and in case it wasn’t clear Running Ahead is definitely a running thing I can’t live without.
This is my hat. It’s brand new. Actually it’s an internet picture of my hat ’cause I don’t know where my actual hat is.
asics was a big sponsor for the half-marathon I ran at the end of April in Montreal. The race pick up was at a running shop. One of the things in the race bag was a coupon for $25 off if you spent $75 on asics gear. Seemed like a good deal to me and I needed socks and a hat so there you go. My old hat is old. And really smelly. I’ve run in this one twice now. I love it. It fits well and keeps the sweat away from me.