Happy New Run!

After such a long break I am back to running. I started yesterday with an unexpected 4k race and continued this morning with more or less the same thing. It is a slow, painful and exciting getting back into my training mood. My masochistic self enjoys this challenge more than anything in the world. Even more than writing up my PhD…

In order to reward myself in advance for future excellent runs, I went out to do some shopping for my training. Nothing fancy – just shoes, pants, t-shirts and so on. To my surprise I discovered a whole new world out there. The shoes are fantastic: grey with orange. The rest of the gear is way too black for my taste, but it makes me feel like Cat Woman, which is not a bad feeling after eating so much over Xmas. However, la piece de resistance is my new watch/pedometer/whatever it might be called. It is a small orange (just to match my new shoes!) device that measures the time, distance, calories burned, heart rate etc. How do you think it does that? Well, it is connected to a small device in my left shoe and to…a satellite. This is no joke apparently. Under the circumstances, how can I not be self-conscious when I run????