To Boston and Beyond
Boston Marathon: Indecision!
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - 1 comment
I have to admit that after a week of walking around New York, and a full day of walking around Boston, my feet hurt a little. Why was I wearing those cute little shoes in New York? Even though they had low heels, they still hurt my feet.
Read on for more on my wardrobe travails, then click on this story for a video of me and information on how you can be a runner too.
Tonight is about indecision. What shoes should I wear for the marathon? My old "tried and true" running shoes or should I buy a new pair? I stopped by the Mizuno booth, and I didn't buy new shoes because they were the same color as my old ones.
Anxiety. I'm stressing about wearing 3/4 length tights or my other option is to wear a pair of shorts that I wore at the Columbus Marathon; the same "lucky" pair that I qualified for Boston in.
The anxiety has a lot to do with choosing the "correct" wardrobe to suit the weather conditions. "A high of 56 with increasing sunshine" is the forecast for the marathon. It should be "perfect" marathon weather conditions. Perfect, yes; unless you have an inner-thigh chafing problem, which most women do. It's what we runners call "tweener" weather. Too warm for tights, too cool for a clear decision to wear shorts.
And, I sure don't want to have a "wardrobe malfunction," like I had at the Columbus marathon, where I ended up with chafing so bad I couldn't walk right, for a week. Yes, I paid my dues for qualification! I paid with those supposedly "lucky" shorts.
Let me explain chafing. The same chafing that makes babies scream will reduce most adult male runners to scream for their mommies, not to mention it's just not a cool injury. It's one thing to pull a hamstring, but if you don't finish Boston due to chafing -- sheesh! It's just one injury that's hard to run through.
So, my decision: A skirt with shorts underneath that seem to stay put. And a little tube of body glide applied deftly. And as always, quite a bit of determination because one thing that I am decisive about is getting up at 5 a.m. tomorrow, ready to hop on a bus with my friend Debbie, and ready to go to the starting line. (Remember Debbie? The hangover handicap?)
As her husband ordered a glass of wine to go with his pasta, she looked at me and said, "I have run a marathon, had a glass of wine the night before, but I'm going to stick with water, tonight. This is, after all, Boston."
Comments
May. 20, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)randalk7 (anonymous)
Look on the bright side, any wardrobe malfunction couldn't be as bad as Janet's
Have a great race
Dr D
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