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"[Thumbs-up gesture] Yeaaaah!"
I'm not sure if she was trying to tell me that there is just no one cooler than someone geared up and heading out for two hours of trail running in what in southeastern Wisconsin counts as very hilly terrain, or if she was telling me that no one looks like more of a turbo-dork than a trail runner. Honestly, though, I'd guess the latter. I'll submit, though, that it is not correct that no one looks like a bigger mega-dork than a trail runner. Oh, sure, I looked pretty dweebtastic in my orange-and-gray shoes, shorts that are technically a bathing suit (nothing better than jumping in the lake after a run, also, women run in similar pants all the time, so why not me?), a lime-green compression-fit tank top, black and yellow sweat-absorbing headband, and, of course, Amphipod belt with the bright yellowish water bottles. I'm just saying that I'm also a speed skater, and truly no one looks more dorktastic than speed skaters. Not only are our skin suits typically in a color combination that could only be the result of a violent high-speed collision with a rainbow, but when we're standing around between races, we half-remove them and add some other utterly random clothing to keep warm as the skin suit sleeves and hood dangle. We make triathletes look like a sharp-dressed bunch.
I'm not sure if she was trying to tell me that there is just no one cooler than someone geared up and heading out for two hours of trail running in what in southeastern Wisconsin counts as very hilly terrain, or if she was telling me that no one looks like more of a turbo-dork than a trail runner. Honestly, though, I'd guess the latter. I'll submit, though, that it is not correct that no one looks like a bigger mega-dork than a trail runner. Oh, sure, I looked pretty dweebtastic in my orange-and-gray shoes, shorts that are technically a bathing suit (nothing better than jumping in the lake after a run, also, women run in similar pants all the time, so why not me?), a lime-green compression-fit tank top, black and yellow sweat-absorbing headband, and, of course, Amphipod belt with the bright yellowish water bottles. I'm just saying that I'm also a speed skater, and truly no one looks more dorktastic than speed skaters. Not only are our skin suits typically in a color combination that could only be the result of a violent high-speed collision with a rainbow, but when we're standing around between races, we half-remove them and add some other utterly random clothing to keep warm as the skin suit sleeves and hood dangle. We make triathletes look like a sharp-dressed bunch.
