When I came home I was greeted with a lovely package in the mail. I love mail! Especially when it is mail that has something to do with running! :) I purchased two new running bras! Ah two new color to my running bra collection too.
You would think that I would have a black sports bra, but I don't. So now I do. And lucky for me I had another package waiting for me at my door this evening too...
Yep a new Steelers tech shirt to run in. This is my night for running packages! And that black bra will go with this new awesome shirt!
There is just something about new running clothes that just puts an extra step in your run.
So I decided to go to the gym to run my 3 miles today. I figured I haven't been there in the past month or more, so I might as well get some of my money's worth out of the place. It was a bit warm and humid outside, so I think it was a pretty good decision.
I put on my new running shirt and headed into the gym. Amazing, they didn't move the place and all the equipment was in the same spot as the last time I was there... Well I hopped on the good ol' mill and off I went. I was a pretty good run when all of a sudden a girl hopped on next to me. Normally this wouldn't be news but was very distracting. She ran with her arms straight down at her sides! I couldn't help it, I kept stealing a glance at her running. Now I am not a running pro (far from it) but don't most runners run with their arms at a 90ish degree angle. I have seen this arms down approach before and it really baffles me. I mean what happens if you fall? Will your arms respond fast enough to catch you? Or do you just end up falling on your face? Doesn't it take more energy to keep your arms by your side than to have them at an angle by your body? It just seems so crazy to me. I mean, I don't run like Phoebe or anything.
But I definitely do not run with my arms straight down at my side either.
Well the girl seemed to be running fine, I don't know why I find it so fascinating, but I do. So a quick 3 miles later she was done and I was done. I then moved on to the bike and thankfully everyone had bent arms at the bike.
Bra update:
Well Title Nine, I am done. I called them today to inform them that yet again I have not received the bra. To which they told me the last day it was scanned. Yeah I can figure that out from the website. Then I proceed to tell her that it seems that it hasn't moved from Maryland since the 14th. To which the lovely lady told me I was wrong and it will probably get there. Well I guess they should change it on the tracking site b/c it only says Maryland on the 14th and the 24th. That seems to me like it hasn't moved. She then was going to send a replacement but they are out of stock of my size and color. Which irritated me b/c I would like a new bra before school starts in September. Really does it need to be this hard?? I told her I was done and to credit my card. She said no problem but to give them a call if the package shows up, b/c then if is shows up at my house they will charge my card. Ugh!!! It is a freakin' bra! How difficult can it be to mail it?? Or to figure out it must be lost??
So this is the first week of training for the Hershey half. I will do better this time around than last time. I will not take a DNF! I will try to follow the plan and not skip the long run :) I am hoping the run will be the perfect run, at the perfect time of year in PA and flat. I would like to run it under my 3 hour time that I have ran my previous Halves. I have to get through some horrible summer running, but I did it last year and survived so I am sure I can do it again. October 16th will be here before I know it.
Well week one is starting off great. I am just getting over a head cold and today is the first day I can actually breathe. So running tonight should be great. Well at least I plan on running, and it is not as humid as it has been. Tonight we are planning on closing down the bar at run club since all the teachers are officially on summer vacation (which means summer school is over). We will see if that happens. We may end up wanting to go home early, who knows, but we can if we wanted to close it down and that is the main point lol.
On the Bra note, still no bra in sight. Title Nine told me to wait til Friday to see if it has come. They also recognized that it has take a bit longer than usual. Really? You think so? They mailed it on the 8th and according to the tracking number it has been sitting in Columbia Maryland since the 14th. I could drive there and get the bra before this. So I guess I will wait til Friday and then if it doesn't come I will give them a call. Ugh...I just wanted a pretty pink new sports bra, is that too much to ask??
So I ordered a new sports bra from Title Nine. The 3 reason sports bra. I guess it is called 3 reasons because you need to come up with three reasons why it takes so long to get to your door. I ordered the bra on July 7th and I have still not received it. I was supposed to receive it in 7-10 business days. Business days do not include the weekend. I guess the branch of the USPS do not like to work on the weekend like the rest of the postal workers. The more that I think of it, I think they might have sent it Pony Express. I wonder if the horse and rider had problems crossing the Rockies or did he decide to go through the desert?
I have had a computer customized and it took less time than this one bra. Maybe this bra has super powers! I guess I would be ok with it taking so long if it had some sort of powers. Right now I am hoping it has the power to keep me bounce free. Hopefully the bra will get here sometime on Monday (because we don't want to deliver on a Saturday). Anyone else feel like it has taken forever for a package to arrive?
