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| Do you wash your shoes? (Read 548 times) |
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posted: 4/17/2008 at 7:18 PM |
Hehehe - good one.
I got my sparkling new HRM and went for a run. I was perplexed that I couldn't seem to get the blasted thing over 80. Thought it was a bad lead or something. About two miles into the run, I stop at a traffic intersection and notice I had it set on % of Max. DOOH!. The guy waiting for the light probably thinks I have terrets syndrom. And yes I am a guy and no I do not need to read the instruction manual. |
Illegitimis non carborundum
2008 goals:
1) run a fall marathon (Indy)
2) stay injury free
3) PR 5K, 10K, HM & M
4) get my kids to start running with me
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posted: 4/17/2008 at 7:24 PM |
| If I ever wash them in a machine it's not until they're retired from the road. |
| The Gaijin Samurai. a.k.a The attorney dissin' attorney.
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posted: 4/17/2008 at 8:04 PM |
| Quote from Echo on 4/17/2008 at 6:49 PM:
off topic- Jeff, I was and always will be a Navy Corpsman, Cardiovascular Technologist Derrick
Derrick,
Me too, brother - Aerospace Med Tech.
Jeff
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"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
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posted: 4/17/2008 at 10:08 PM |
| I'm embarrassed to wear clean shoes. I'd never show up to a race in shoes that haven't been in the mud a few times. I just let the mud dry then shake off the dried stuff the next morning. |
| Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get. -- Homer Simpson |
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posted: 4/17/2008 at 10:20 PM |
| I've even got a little dried blood on mine, from a blister on the inside of my left foot. DS was suitably impressed. Now the blister has healed and the shoes seem to be OK. |
| Maine Coast HM, September 21 |
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posted: 4/18/2008 at 2:23 AM |
Love the blood Teresa.
Jeff when did you retire? Ever stationed at Whidbey Island?
Derrick |
| If the road less traveled was easy, would it be...? |
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posted: 4/18/2008 at 12:08 PM |
I've even got a little dried blood on mine, from a blister on the inside of my left foot
Awesome - me too. Mine was from my own clumsiness, falling and gouging my knee on the asphalt. I finished the run, my sock looked like Curt Schilling's World Series sock, and the runoff had splattered on my shoe. It didn't change the fact that I looked like an idiot when I fell with all sorts of traffic looking at me. 
Jeff when did you retire? Ever stationed at Whidbey Island?
Derrick - April 2000. Never at Whidbey. Only West Coast assignment for me was San Diego. |
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
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posted: 4/18/2008 at 1:33 PM |
| Quote from Echo on 4/17/2008 at 4:02 AM: Do you wash your shoes?
No.
Unless they get really really really nasty after a swampy trail run AND I don't feel like leaving them in the garage.
But usually : No. |
| It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack. |
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posted: 4/18/2008 at 2:14 PM |
| Typically I just clap them together to get the big chunks of dirt out of the treads so i dont leave a trail around the house. Oh, and once I did wash them after the Muddy Buddy relay - but that really is a whole different beast. I learned after that and the next year I just wore a pair of throw aways. |
"80% of success is showing up." ~ Woody Allen
"Go that way... really fast. If something gets in your way... turn." ~ Charles DeMar
God doesn't give you what you want. He gives you what you need, the rest is up to you. |
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posted: 4/18/2008 at 2:31 PM |
Never. I worked hard to make my shoes look like the color of sand and am proud of it.
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Finished my first marathon 1-13-2008 in 6:03:37 at P.F. Chang's in Phoenix.
Marathon coach for Albuquerque Fit
The only thing that has ever made any difference in my running is running. |
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