Friday, December 21, 2007

..i think...maybe..nearly..maybe just

..i think...maybe..nearly..maybe just.. i think im going to say..i am a runner... ive never been comfrtable to call myself a runner..ive told people..i run..or sometimes ...i run for a club but wouldnt classify myself as a runner..cos i havent really taken it very seriously at all...
..ummmm i think ive actually become a runner
..when i smashed my poor car to smithereens yesterday..i hired a car..
...y? because i need a car so i can get to my training runs...and thats basically y i hired a car

..so today i went and bought a real 'runners pair of shoes' to train i have been training in these dodgy brooks shoes that are always on sale for about $65 at the smith st outlet ..i think they are alphas..been wearing for years....
..went to active feet in prahran..tish..the sales girl was awesome..we tried on the brooks trance which apparently were ok..but undercorrecting(i pronate) on one foot..these she was very happy with..also she said they werent a wide fit..i have very skinny feet..however they feel pretty wide to me//she said we could put 'spacers' in there but ill leave it for now... and when dod i become the person who buys stuiff woithout even LOOKING at the price tag..it was only when i got to my car that it even occurred to me to check..she actually got me to buy the lesser of the two..and i had also said i was prepared to buy 2 shoes so i could rotate and she said use for 6 weeks and then come back..only allowed to start with 4kms inthem
it was funny she goes ill put it up to a jog..so she popped it to 9kms/hour and i was just about falling off the tready..im like do you mind if i pop it up a bit..im about to fall off.. ..and then she was asking about training and i said im only allowed to do slow stuff about 5:30m/km..and shes like ..thats me going flat out... but everyone has different paces... my slow is fast for some...and my fast is SLOW for some(trust me)..started talking about the ennell bras..cos we were both girls of endowment..so she told me about this great bra shop 2 doors up that specialise in Dcup and above
how awesome!!!!! i bought another enell(yes even tho i have 2 on order..i ordered a size 0 and size 1..cos i wasnt sure..but 0 is hte correct one.. also tried on heaps of bikinis(altho not sure this belly is prepared to make its debut) but one of the styles thy picked for me was AWESOME.. and i loved the fact that they told me my girls werent really big..it was just cos i was little elsewhere makes then seem more prominent..lol... ive always used that as an excuse...very broad front on...slighter on the side view..so not small look quite large

..then stopped in at the car yards..thinking a mazda 3 or a subaru or a holden astra..im buying a new car... im not driving that little death trap again

oh yeah and i gave the english dude..the youre a lovely guy..but its not going to happen(insert a valid reason here that doesnt need to go on my blog)i dont want to lead you on... can only offer friendship... etc etc.. but im such a shit..i texted it..anyway he wrote back and was very nice and said he definitely still wanted to hang out cos 'im quite funny' except when im being mean(oopsies)..anyway glad thats all sorted..i was feeling terrible about it

4 comments:

Andrew(ajh) said...

Just catching up on a couple of days of blogs Jo, so sorry to hear about the car accident, they can be a real shock to the system can't they.

Great move going to Active Feet, they are awesome, certainly having a correct pair of shoes will be terrific. I hope you have better luck than me with the Trance though, I didn't get on well with them, but we're all different.

And you are definitely a runner!

Kathy said...

JayKay is going to be sooo jealous to hear you bought running shoes. Did you notice she was in a shoe shop the other day and DIDN'T buy anything?

LOL at you just starting to call yourself a runner. I'm a runner and the only way I could manage your slow pace of 5:30 min/km is if I ran under a mobile phone tower and my Garmin went crazy!!!

jojo said...

kathy..the speed i run in no way affects if im a runner.. i more meant how committed i was... i was buying el cheapo shoes..and doing a half as3ed squash + running without really committing to either...kinda sounds like me and my love life!!!

Amy@RunnersLounge said...

Congratulations on your decree - you are a runer! Since there are no rules about who is and who is not a runner - glad to see that you realize you have all the mental power to take on such an enjoyable sport.

Amy
http://blog.runnerslounge.com