Audacity

As a man I love gadgets! As a runner I like running gadgets or accessories. So I have a Nike+ Sportband, an mp3 player, a pouch to hold my mp3 player, a set of cool headphones, a 4 bottle water belt, compression shorts, Glide, Gu, and I am dying for a Garmin 305. If you run you know what I mean. Running accessories are not only fun they are down right necessary for split timing, interval training, heart rate training, knowing distance, time, tempo, pace and the like and of course you need some tunes for motivation!!

So imagine my incredulity when I saw a woman running in my neighborhodd wearing NO accessories!! What is wrong with her she didn't even have on a hat! Just out there running! She was scooting along at what seemed to be a 8-9 minute pace, had some perspiration built up and was of all things just smiling! How can you run without any accessories and still smile? Her favorite song wasn't pounding in her ears. She wasn't taking a sip of electrolytes from her water belt. She wast slurping down a new flavor of Gu, she wasn't even looking at a Garmin or Nike+. Go figure?

That is what I call audacity. She has the audacity, ( 1. boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for conventional thought, or other restrictions.) to run just for the sake of running!! That's just wrong!!

Next time I see her I think I am going to pull up alongside her in my car(cause I can't catch her if I run after her because I am carrying too much stuff and of course my knee hurts) and toss here a package of Gu...just so she will be officially one of us...a real runner! :)