Hood to Coast is a mere three days away. With my playlists built and customized for each leg and new batteries in the headlamp, it’s time to focus my attention on my outfits.
Picking out what I’m going to wear for HTC is what I imagine it’s like to pick outfits for a beauty pageant. The first leg is like the eveningwear competition. You haven’t run yet so you still look good and smell good. You’re also likely to run into a lot of people you know, so you want to look good. The overall theory being that if you look good, you run good.
The second leg is like the swim suit competition. Only instead of sporting swim suits, you sport every piece of reflective gear you own so you (hopefully) don’t get hit by a car. It’s also colder so a swim suit would not be advisable. Things that are advisable . . . bright colors, reflective vest, headlamp or flashlight, etc.
The last leg is like that opening segment of the beauty pageant where every one is dressed the same. In reality, at this stage in HTC we aren’t dressed the same, but we all look the same. Exhausted. This is where my looking good is equal to running good theory really comes into play. I tend to save my favorite color shirt for this last leg. I know it’s going to hurt, my shins will be killing me, I won’t have slept in 24 plus hours . . . but looking good always makes you feel better. It’s why we put on mascara to go to the grocery store while hung-over.
Hmmm . . . decisions, decisions. Luckily this is the easy part of HTC. It’s the actual running of it that is brutal. And awesome.
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